Elena Kochetkova
Correspondence address:
2-32 Rubinshteina st.
Saint-Petersburg, Russia 191025
phone: +79095846966
e-mail: len.kochetkova@gmail.com
Work and Research Experience
09.2014 – Present Higher School of Economics, Saint-Petersburg, Senior Lecturer
07.2012 – Present Higher School of Economics, Center for Historical Research, SaintPetersburg, Russia. Research Assistant
06. 2008 – 10. 2010 Guide Office of Valaam Monastery. Guide in Finnish.
08.2011 – 05.2012 The Honors master program (IRUN excellence program) “European Political
Identity”, the European Commission, the Radboud Honors Academy, the Netherlands, the
European University at Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Research in a group project.
04.2011 – 02.2015 British Language Center “Globus International”, Saint-Petersburg, Russia,
Teacher of Finnish
04.2011 – 07.2012 AAC Global Company, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, Teacher of Finnish
Teaching workshops and open seminars
03.2014 Workshop for senior high school students “The Historian`s Craft: How to Work with
Historical Sources”, Higher School of Economics, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
Qualifications
2014 – Present Postgraduate Student, Faculty of Social Sciences and Doctoral Program in
Political, Societal and Regional Change (REEES), University of Helsinki
Thesis title: “Modernization of Soviet Forestry and Technology Transfer from Finland, 1950s1960s”
2012 – 2013 Certificate, Advanced Training Program, European University at Saint-Petersburg,
Department of History
2010 – 2012 Diploma, MA in History. European University at Saint-Petersburg, Department of
History. Thesis: “Forestry of Soviet-Finnish Border Region in 1953 – 1964: Transfer and
Implementation of Technologies”
2005 – 2010 Diploma, Specialist Degree in History of Northern Europe and Finnish Teaching.
Petrozavodsk State University, Department of History of Northern Europe. Thesis: “A Finnish
Factor in the Karelian Economic Development in 1930s (The Case of Petrozavodsk Ski
Factory)”
03.2012
Certificate, Methodological Workshop “Comparative Methodologies,
Operationalisations and Specifics of European Studies Research”, Center for German and
European Studies, Saint-Petersburg
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10.2010
Certificate, Retraining on Academic English Communication. Center for German
and European Studies, Saint-Petersburg
Participation in research schools
09.2015
«Crises and Grand Challenges in European Past and Present”, Stockholm, Swedish
Royal Institute of Technology
07.2015
Exploring Russia`s Environmental History and Natural Resources, Lake Baikal, UlanUde, Irkutsk, Russia
08.2014
International Summer School “Social Network Analysis”, National Research
University Higher School of Economics, Saint-Petersburg
06.-07.2014
Russian Culture in Baltic Nature, The Center for Environmental and
Technological History, European University at Saint-Petersburg, Center for Russian, Central
and East European Studies, University of Glazgow
04.2014
Munich Spring School Science, Environment, Infrastructure, and Technology“
History of Science in Central and Eastern Europe, Graduate School for East and Southeast
European Studies, Munich
09.2012
ESEH Summer School “Natural Resources: Historical Ideas, Exploration and
Exploitation”, ESEH and Higher School of Economics, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Paper
presented: “Soviet Exploitation of Forest Resources in 1953 – 1964 and Technology Transfer”.
06.2012
The International Summer School “Choices of Modernization”, Havsvidden,
Åland Islands. Paper presented: “The Soviet-Finnish Forestry Cooperation in 1953 – 1964”.
05.2012
Third Interdisciplinary Workshop “Culture, Society and Memory: The Challenges
of Historical and Sociological Research on Russia, Germany and the US”, the Bielefeld Graduate
School in History and Sociology, Germany, Paper presented: “The Soviet Timber Industry in
1953 – 1964: Technology Transfer”.
10.2011
Training Course for PhDs “New Methods in the Humanities”, Sigtuna,
Sweden.
09.2011
PhD Course “Forests in a Changing World”, the Swedish University of
Agriculture, Umeå, Sweden.
06.2011
PhD Course “Creativity and Control: Rephrasing Closed Societies”, the
University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia. Paper presented: “The Soviet-Finnish Cooperation and
Technology Transfer in 1953 – 1964”.
Selected conferences and seminars
11.2015
International conference “Natural Resources, Landscape and Climate in History of
Russia and Neighbouring Countries”. National Research University Higher School of
Economics, Saint-Petersburg. Paper presented: " Forests, timber and wood wastes in the Soviet
Union, 1950s-1960s"
11.2015
15th Annual Aleksanteri Conference “Culture and Russian Society”, University of
Helsinki, Finland. Paper presented: “Soviet Engineers, Finland and the Iron Curtain, 1955-64”
10.2015
International Conference “Resistance, Protest and Criticism in the Name of
Nature: USSR and Post-Soviet States, 1950-2010”, EcoGlobReg, German Historical Institute in
Moscow, and Franco-Russian Center, Moscow. Paper presented: “Between Pollution and
Protection in the Soviet Context: the Svetogorsk Pulp and Paper Factory in the mid-1950s1960s”
09.2015
7th Tensions of Europe Conference "Technology and Environment". Papers
presented: "Technological change and Soviet environmental policy in the mid-1950s - 1960s"
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and (co-authored by Julia Lajus) "Soviet technological aid and environment in Africa in the late
Cold War"
08.2015
XVIIth World Economic History Congress “Diversity in Development”, Kyoto,
Japan. Paper presented: “Finnish-Soviet trade in the 1950s-60s: interests and tools of Cold War
actors”
06.-07.2015 8th Conference of the European Society of Environmental History. Paper
presented: “Between Pollution and Protection in the Soviet Context: the Soviet Environmental
Policy in the mid-1950s - 1960s”
06.2015
International workshop “Transplanting Modernity”. Paper presented: “Soviet
Technological Aid and Environment in Africa in the Late Cold War” (co-authored by Julia
Lajus), Georgetown University
06.2015
Interdisciplinary research seminar “Historical Models and Modern Economy”,
National Research University Higher School of Economics, Saint-Petersburg. Paper presented
“Modernization of Soviet Forestry as a Large Technical System, the mid-1950s-1960s”
05.2015
International conference “Waterscapes and Historic Canals as Cultural Heritage”.
Paper presented: “A Sign of Good Neighborhood”: The Saimaa Canal in the Soviet-Finnish
Relations”, the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari
03.2015
Conference "Close Encounters: East and West in Cold War Interactions and
Imagination", University of Amsterdam. Paper presented: "Soviet-Finnish technological
cooperation, 1955-1964: Engineers and the Iron Curtain"
02.2015
Seminar of young researchers of economic history, Finnish Economic History
Association (in Finnish)
12.2014
First Annual Conference of the Doctoral Programme in Political, Societal and
Regional Change. Paper presented:"Technological Change, Innovations and Technology
Transfer: The Case of Soviet Pulp and Paper Industry in the late 1940s – 1950s"
11.2014
Annual Conference of the Leibnitz Graduate School "Cities and River
Environments - a Vertisile Relationship", Herder Institute, Germany. Paper presented: "Between
water pollution and protection in the Soviet Context in the mid-1950s-1960s. The Vuoksi river
and Svetogorsky pulp and paper plant"
10.2014
Tensions of Europe, Technology and Democracy: Quo Vadis?, interdisciplinary
research seminar held by Tensions of Europe and the University of Capodistria, Chios, Greece
07-08.2014 The 41st ICOHTEC Symposium, Technology in Time and Transition, Brasov,
Romania. Paper presented: “The Soviet Forestry in 1953 ‐ 1964: Transfer and Implementation of
Western Technologies”
07.2014
The Second world congress of Environmental History, Guimarães, Portugal.
Paper presented: “Between Pollution and Protection in the Soviet Context: The Svetogorsk Pulp
and Paper Factory in Mid-1950s – 1960s”
04.2014
XV April Conference “Modernization of Economy and Society”, Higher School
of Economics, Moscow, Russia. Paper presented: “Soviet Modernization and Technology
Transfer in 1953-1964: The Case of Pulp and Paper Industry” (in Russian).
03.2014
Public Seminar of the German Historical Institute in Moscow. Paper Presented:
“Modernization of the Soviet Forestry and technology Transfer in 1955-1964”.
10.2013
Capitalism, State and Society Research group, research seminar, University of
Helsinki. Paper presented: “Technologies though the Border: Finnish Technologies in the Soviet
Forestry in 1950s – 1960s”.
09.2013
The 11th Annual T2M Conference, Kouvola, Finland, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
Paper presented: “Technology Transfer through “the Iron Curtain”: the Case of the FinnishSoviet Border Region in 1950s – 1960s”
09. 2013
Democracy and Technology. Europe in Tension from the 19th to the 20th
Century, Sorbonne, France. Paper presented: “What and Whom Can Technology Transfer
Change: Western Technologies in the Soviet Modernization in 1950s – 1960s”
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08.2013
Circulating Natures, 7th conference of the ESEH, Munich, Germany. Poster
Presented: “The Soviet Forestry in 1953 - 1964: Technologies, experts, and resources”
07. 2013
24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine,
Manchester, Great Britain. Paper presented: “Western technologies and Soviet modernization,
1953-1964: Svetogorsk pulp and paper plant”
06.2013
International Conference "Projects of Modernity: Constructing ‘the Soviet’ in
European Perspective", Perm State National Research University, Russia. Paper “Western Factor
in the Soviet Modernization: Svetogorsk pulp and paper plant in 1950s – 1960s” (in Russian)
05.2013
"Manchester: Past, Present and Future of the Industrial City”, the Ivanovsky State
University, Ivanovo, Russia. Paper presented: “Svetogorsk Pulp and Paper Plant in 1950s –
1960s: Modernization and Technology Transfer” (in Russian)
01.2013
Relocating Borders: a comparative approach, Humboldt University, Berlin,
Germany. Paper presented: “How technologies cross the border: Soviet-Finnish forestry
cooperation in the near-border area in 1953 – 1964”
11.2012
Aleksanteri 12th Conference, Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki, Finland. Paper
presented: “East – West Competition and Forestry Cooperation in 1953 – 1964”.
10.2012
SHOT Annual Meeting. Copenhagen, Denmark. Paper presented: The Soviet
Forestry in 1953 – 1964: Transfer and Implementation of Western Technologies
05.2012
Crossing Borders: History, Dialogue of Languages and Culture. 5th International
Scientific Conference on the Border of the EU in Narva, Estonia, Narva College of University of
Tartu. Paper presented: “Soviet-Finnish Cooperation in the Near-Border Area in 1953–1964”.
02.2012
First Princeton Young Scholar`s Interdisciplinary Conference on Soviet Science
and Technology “The Great Experiment Revisited”, Princeton, the USA. Paper presented:
“Technology Transfer to the Soviet Forestry in 1953 – 1964”
04. 2011
International Student Conference “Constructing “the Soviet”: Political conscience,
every day practices, new identities”, European University at Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Paper
presented: “Soviet Forest Industry in 1953 – 1964: Transfer and Implementation of
Technologies” (in Russian)
Organizational Experience
06-09.2015 - Member of the Organizing Committee of the Tensions of Europe Young Scholars
Summer School, Stockholm
05.2015 – Member of the Organizing Committee of the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar
“Historical Models and Contemporary Economics”
01-04.2015 - Member of the Organizing Committee, the 8h Annual Conference “Constructing
the “Soviet?”: Political Consciousness, Everyday Practices, New Identities, European University
at Saint-Petersburg, Russia
02.-04.2014 Member of the Organizing Committee, the 7h Annual Conference “Constructing the
“Soviet?”: Political Consciousness, Everyday Practices, New Identities, European University at
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
02.-03.2014 Participating in organization of the conference “A Usable Past: New Trends in
Applied and Interdisciplinary History”, Higher School of Economics, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
01.-04.2013 Member of the Organizing Committee, the 6th Annual Conference “Constructing
the “Soviet?”: Political Consciousness, Everyday Practices, New Identities, European University
at Saint-Petersburg, Russia
08.2012 Participating in organization of the ESEH Summer School “Natural Resources:
Historical Ideas, Exploration and Exploitation”, Higher School of Economics, Saint-Petersburg,
Russia
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08.-09.2012 Organization of the Round Table “Circulation of Knowledge in the Divided World:
Confrontation, Attraction, Cooperation”, Higher School of Economics, Saint-Petersburg, 02.04.2012 Member of the Organizing Committee, the 6th Annual Conference “Constructing the
“Soviet?”: Political Consciousness, Everyday Practices, New Identities”, European University at
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Grants, Scholarships, and Awards
2015-2016
Individual research grant of the HSE Academic Fund to conduct the project
“Technological Innovations in the USSR: Attempts to Introduce Continuous Pulp Cooking,
1940s – 1950s ((№ 15-01-0056)
05.2014 First Place Award for an article in the competition “Science and Technology Studies –
2014”, PAST-Center, the Tomsk National University, Russia
04.2014 Grateful letter of National Research University Higher School of Economics – SaintPetersburg
02.2014 German Historical Institute in Moscow. Short-term grant for archival research
08.-12.2013 The Center for International Mobility, Finland. Grant for research in Finland
11-12.2012 Karen Johnson Freeze Fellowship Fund. Research grant
10. 2012 Center for European Studies. European University at Saint-Petersburg. Research grant
for a short-term training at the Aleksanteri Institute, Finland
11.2012 Prize for the best academic articles. The Commission on Academic Planning. European
University at Saint-Petersburg, Russia
10.-12. 2011 German Historical Institute in Moscow. Short-term grant for archival research
09.2009 – 06.2010 Scholarship of the Government of the Russian Federation
09.2008 – 06.2010 Scholarship of Oxford-Russia Fund
In mass media
Interview, Forest Portal of Karelia http://forest-karelia.ru/?id=1168
Membership in Professional Societies
2011-Present European Society for Environmental History
2012-Present Society for History of Technology
2012-Present Tensions of Europe, since 2015 – a member of the Managing Committee of the
ToE
Selected Publications
1. Трансфер технологий в советскую лесную отрасль в рамках советскофинляндского научно-технического сотрудничества в 1953 – 1964 гг.//
Конструируя “советское”? СПб., 2012. С. 92 – 98 (Transfer of Technologies to the
Soviet Forestry industry within the Soviet-Finnish scientific-technical cooperation in
1953 – 1964).
2. Soviet-Finnish Cooperation in the Near-Border Area in 1953 – 1964// Crossing Borders:
History, dialogue of languages and culture. May 17 – 19, 2012, Abstract book. Ed. by O.
Burdakova, 2012, pp. 75 – 76.
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3. Природные ресурсы: исторические идеи, изучение и эксплуатация: Летняя школа
по экологической истории (в соавторстве с Ю.А. Лайус)// Историко-биологические
исследования. Т. 4. № 4. 2012. С. 118 – 122. (Natural Resources: Historical ideas,
research and exploitation. Summer School on environmental history).
4. Трансфер технологий в советскую лесную отрасль в 1953 – 1964 годах// Bulletin des
Deutschen Historischen Instituts Moskau. Nr. 7. Herausgeber Katja Bruisch. 2013. S. 75
– 92. (Technology transfer to the Soviet forest sector in 1953 – 1964).
5. Светогорский ЦБК в 1950-е – 1960-е гг.: Модернизация и технологический
транссфер// Материалы Второго международного научного семинара «Проект
«Манчестер» (Иваново, 16-17 мая 2013 г.), Иваново, 2013. С. 33 – 34. (Svetogorsk
Pulp and Paper Plant in 1950s – 1960s: Modernization and Technology Transfer).
6. Modernization of Soviet Pulp and Paper Industry and Technology Transfer in 1953 –
1964: Enso/Svetogorsk// Laboratorium. Ed. O. Paretskaya. 2013. No. 3, pp. 13-42.
7. The Soviet-Finnish Forestry Cooperation in the Soviet Near-Border Area and
Technology Transfer between 1953-1964// Culture, Languages, History: Integration and
Border Crossing. Studia Humaniora et paedogogica collegii narovensis ed. by Nina Raud
and Olga Burdakova, Narva, 2014, pp. 37-48.
8. Science, Environment, Infrastructure, and Technology, History of Science in Central and
Eastern Europe, Munich Spring School, 2014. Available at:
http://hsozkult.geschichte.huberlin.de/index.asp?id=5438&view=pdf&pn=tagungsberichte
9. Технологическая модернизация в СССР в 1950-е – 1960-е гг. (на примере
Светогорского целлюлозно-бумажного комбината)// Вестник Пермского
государственного университета, серия «История», вып. 1(24)., Пермь, 2014. С.194205. (Technological Modernization in the USSR in 1950s – 1960s (on the example of
Svetogorsky pulp and paper plant).
10. Kochetkova E. A. A history of failed innovation: continuous cooking and the Soviet pulp
industry, 1940s-60s // History and Technology. 2015. Vol. 31. No. 2. P. 1-25.
11. Кочеткова Е. А., Лакшина В. В., Летюхин И. Д. Экономическая история и
междисциплинарность (Economic History and Interdisciplinarity)// Вопросы
экономики. 2015. № 11. С. 156-159.
12. Kochetkova E. A. Stalin`s Inventors: Leonid Zherebov and Soviet Pulp Industry, the
1940s-1960s / Working papers by National research university Higher School of
economics. Series WP BRP "Basic research program". 2015.
13. Kochetkova E. A. Environment History and Interdisciplinary Perspectives: The 8th
Biennial ESEH Conference, 30 June – 3 July 2015 // Историко-биологические
исследования. 2015. Vol. 7. No. 4 (in print)
14. Kochetkova E. A. Finnish Forestry and Technology Transfers: the 19th and 20th
Centuries, in: The Encyclopaedia of a New History of Europe. Paris 1 PanthéonSorbonne, Paris-Sorbonne and Nantes universities, [б.г.] (in print)
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15. What and Whom Technology Transfer Can Change: Transfer and Implementation of
Western Pulp and Paper Technologies in the Soviet Union in1950s – 1960s// Technology
and Culture, 2016, № 2 (in print)
Other Information
Languages:
Russian – native,
English – proficient,
Finnish – proficient,
Swedish – functional,
German – basic
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