Monographs and edited volumes by CIAPRI team


Mining Cities in Central Asia

Mining cities in Central Asia and the South Caucasus
Survival strategies under conditions of extreme peripheralization

By Rano Turaeva (Editor), Wladimir Sgibnev (Editor)

Link: https://www.kulturkaufhaus.de/en/detail/ISBN-9783860821169/Sgibnev-Wladimir/Mining-cities-in-Central-Asia-and-the-South-Caucasus


Interviews by CIAPRI team


Kazakhstani oil industry, the catastrophe at Tengiz oil well and its political implications

YouTube Interview “Kazakhstani oil industry, the catastrophe at Tengiz oil well and its political implications” by Irina Morozova to ORDA. Kazakhstan

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGAoO0WZFbQ&t=762s


Lectures and presentations by CIAPRI team


Irina Morozova presented a paper “Behind the Disputes on Development: The Birth of Oil Monopolies in Late- and Post-Soviet Kazakhstan” at the Workshop “(Post)Extractivism and (Post)Industrialism in the (Post)Soviet Space” at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, on 1 June 2026.


Irina Morozova presented a lecture “Mapping, Assessment, and Forecasting: Soviet and Post-Soviet Data on Natural Resources and Development in Central Asia” at the Department for Modern History of Eastern Europe, Georg August University of Göttingen on 20 April 2026.


Events (co-)organised by CIAPRI team in Europe and Asia


International Workshop “Colonial and Postcolonial in Recent History of Central Asia (since the 1960s till Present)”, organized by Irina Morozova together with Prof. Tomohiko Uyama, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan, 10/10/2023


Workshop & public roundtable “Mining cities in Caucasus and Central Asia and the South Caucasus”, organised by Rano Turaeva in cooperation with Wladimir Sgibnev, Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde, German-Kazakh University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 09/2019


Roundtable “The history of industry in Central Asia: economic models and ideas of progress”, organised by Irina Morozova at the International Convention of Asia Scholars 11, Leiden University, the Netherlands, 17/07/2019