Victoria Myznikova, MA

Victoria Myznikova is an environmental journalist and researcher with BA and MA degrees in philosophy and religious studies from Moscow State University. At the Carson Center, she is working on a project about Soviet science towns and their transition to a market economy in the 1990s and early 00s. Her interest is in transformations of environment and society and modes of scientific knowledge production. In Russia, she has worked as a senior editor and journalistic writer focusing on the fossil fuels economy, green transition, green tech, and climate policies as well as grassroots environmental movements in Russia and other post-Soviet countries. Myznikova is a member of the Russian Journalist Union, which works to defend the labor and civil rights of media workers in Russia.

RCC Project

USSR (and Russian) Science Towns, or Naukograds

Selected Publications

• “Road to Nowhere: How Oil and Gas Reliance Overdetermined Russia’s Foreign Policy.” Klimareporter (July 2022). https://www.klimareporter.de/images/dokumente/2022/07/die_strasse-nach-nirgendwo-EN.pdf.