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Artikkeli tarkastelee ekokriittisestä näkökulmasta neuvostoaikaisen kirjailijan Boris Šerginin pomorien kansanperinteeseen perustuvista kertomuksista koostuvan tuotannon pohjoisen kuviteltua maantiedettä sekä sen suhdetta luontoon muun muassa kristinuskon ja neuvostomodernisaation konteksteissa. Se esittää, että Šerginin tuotanto rakentaa pomorien narratiivista identiteettiä, jolle keskeisiä ovat rikas elämä meren ehdoilla luonnonvarojen puolesta köyhällä alueella, kristinusko, vanha kulttuuriperintö sekä yhä uusien pohjoisten alueiden hallinta uusien teknologioiden avulla. Šerginiä Venäjän pohjoisen sakraalin maantieteen ja venäläisen kirjallisuuden pohjoisen tekstin kautta lukeva tutkimus on hahmottanut Venäjän Pohjolan kollektiivista identiteettiä keskittyen sen mytopoeettisiin merkityksiin. Tämä artikkeli tuo Šerginin materiaalisen ympäristön vahvemmin esiin ja tarkastelee Šerginin pohjoisen tekstin tutkimusta osana pomorien narratiivista identiteettiä.
The North of Boris Shergin
This article examines from an ecocritical perspective the imagined geography of the North in Boris Shergin's works, a Russian writer of the Soviet period, whose stories were based on Pomor folklore. It studies the interconnections of nature and people in Shergin's stories in the contexts of Christianity and Soviet modernisation. The article argues that rich life by and from the sea in an area poor in natural resources, Christianity, rich cultural heritage, and mastering new northern regions with the help of new technologies are central for the narrative identity of the Pomors whom Shergin's oeuvre concerns. The research on Shergin from the points of view of the sacral geography of northern Russia and the northern text of Russian literature has outlined the collective identity of the Russian North, focusing on its mythopoetic meanings. This article builds more strongly on the material environment in Shergin's stories and considers the research on Shergin's northern text as part of the narrative identity of the Pomors.

Abstract
This article compares the Russian concept of ekologiia kul′tury (ecology of culture) to Western cultural ecology. Both ideas see human cultures evolving in close relations with their environment, but they sharply differ in their conclusions. Instead of highlighting literature's potential as an ecological force, ekologiia kul′tury emphasizes morals, traditional values, and Christian ideology. Russian naturfilosofskaia proza (natural-philosophical prose) shares these features with ekologiia kul′tury, which this article shows by analyzing writings of rivers in it. Naturfilosofskaia proza is also an example of literature as cultural ecology, and this article shows how representations of rivers in the so-called noosphere stories by Sergei Zalygin, Valentin Rasputin, and Viktor Astaf´ev illustrate its function as an ecological force within cultural discourses.