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In propaganda related to industrial hero-projects, post-Stalinist Soviet media synthesized the narrative of the modern conquest of nature with the folklore of Siberian indigenous groups – the Evenks, Tuvan, Buryat, and Russian old-timers, the very groups whose worlds and stories would be deemed backward.

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This page is a summary of: Ancient Bogatyr to Electric River: The Modernized Mythology of the Yenisei, The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, February 2022, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.30965/18763324-bja10051.
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