Surviving the margins in post-Soviet Russia: Forestry villages in northernPerm' Oblast

The authors, based on extensive field work in northern Perm' Oblast, invest igate how people who cannot or do not wish to leave Russia's economic and g eographic margins survive, in this case using "subsidiary plots" and forest resources. Northern Perm' Oblast, one of the northern areas that became "o verpopulated" during the Soviet period tin this instance, through forest-in dustry development), since the USSR's collapse has suffered from loss of th e subsidy that previously maintained the standard of living of forestry wor kers. The paper discusses economic disengagement in the region and its effe cts on the lives of people who have decided to remain.Classification Number s: DIG, RIG, R13.