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“Ust-Ilimsk” as a book category gathers fiction and nonfiction rooted in the Siberian monotown experience around the Ust-Ilimsk dam and timber complexes, using the Angara River and surrounding taiga as both setting and symbol. It includes Soviet-era industrial epics and post-Soviet transformations; reportage, memoirs, and ecological histories; and literary fiction, crime, and coming-of-age tales. Recurring themes include dam building and logging life, remote company towns, winter isolation and rugged solidarity, migration and resettlement, indigenous perspectives, and the environmental costs of modernization. Together, these works explore how people carve community, identity, and meaning at the edge of the map.

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