Kuklina, Vera

Dr. Kuklina leads research projects Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Biocultural Heritage in Arctic Cities as a Potential Resource for Climate Adaptation (NSF, award #2420616) and NNA Research: Collaborative Research: Frozen Commons: Change, Resilience and Sustainability in the Arctic (NSF, award #2127343). 

• Miles, V., Esau, I., & Kuklina, V. (2026). Thermal Amplification by Large-Footprint Buildings in Cold-Climate Cities: Implications for Urban Heat Mitigation. Building and Environment, 114345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2026.114345


• Khaziakhmetova, D., & Kuklina, V. (2025). Bridging Indigenous and municipal perspectives on justice in open public spaces of the urban Arctic. The Polar Journal, 0(0), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2025.2575711


• Ksenofontov, S. S., Kuklina, V., Kholodov, A., & Petrov, A. (2025). On good terms: Pathways to decolonizing science-appropriated Indigenous terminologies in Arctic research. Arctic Science. https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2025-0025 


• Khaziakhmetova D., Khodachek I., Middleton A., Kuklina V. (2025). Just smart? The comparative analysis of smart initiatives in North America and Nordic countries. Polar Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/1088937X.2025.2489169 


• Kuklina, M., Kuklina, V., Shiklomanov, N., Shiklomanov, A., Nyland, K., Sandag, K., Sandag, E., Krasnoshtanova, N., Kobylkin, D., & Kholodov, A. (2025). Snow, ice and permafrost landscapes as 'frozen commons': Examples from northern Mongolia. Environmental Research Letters, 20, 064024. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adc7cb   


• Kuklina, V., Illmeier, G., Krasnoshtanova, N. (2024). Unintended (Dis)connectivities: The Role of Extractive Infrastructure in the Development of Informal Road Networks in Remote Siberia. Sibirica, 23 (3). DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/sib.2024.230302


• Nyland, K., Kuklina, V., Tafrate, J., and R. Hinton. (2025). Indigenous-Engaged Mapathon for Informal Road Research in Southern Siberia. Geographical Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/00167428.2025.2466664 


• Degai T., Petrov A.N, Hinmon D., Korkina Williams V., Ksenofontov S.S., Kuklina V., Mokryi A., Monakhova M., Sharakhmatova V., Sulyandziga P. To succeed, the Path to Knowledge Co-Production Must Be Indigenous-Led. Science eLetters. 2024 December 10; 385(6713). Available from: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads7901#elettersSection


• Kuklina, V., Filippova, V., Krasnoshtanova, N., Savvinova, A., Bogdanov, V., & Kuklina, M. (2024). Utilizing Extractive Transportation Infrastructures for Subsistence Livelihoods: Experience of Evenki Communities in Eastern Siberia. Sustainability, 16(23), Article 23. https://doi.org/10.3390/su162310583


• Zaslavskaya, O., & Kuklina, V. (2024). Arctic InfraScapes: Mobilizing Arts, Science, Local and Indigenous Knowledge to Understand Infrastructure Imaginaries. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 30(2), 373–403. https://doi.org/10.2478/hjeas/2024/30/2/7

• Burnasheva, D., Filippova, V., Kuklina, M., Kuklina, V., & Savvinova, A. (2024). Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Communications and Mobility: Perspectives from the Kolyma Road, Northeast Russia. Sustainability, 16(9), 3658. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16093658


• Kuklina, V., Fedorov R. (2024). Espaces publics dans une ville arctique: le cas de Nadym. Slavica Occitania, 58, 119-142.


• Moreau, G. L., Nyland, K. E., & Kuklina, V. (2023). Traditional Nomadism Offers Adaptive Capacity to Northern Mongolian Geohazards. GeoHazards, 4(3), 3. https://doi.org/10.3390/geohazards4030019


• Kuklina, V., Petrov, A., Streletskiy, D. (2023). Frozen infrastructures in a changing climate: Transforming human–environment-technology relations in the Anthropocene (Editorial). Ambio, 52, 1151 - 1154. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-023-01878-5


• Kuklina, V., Sizov, O., & Fedorov, R. (2023). Dealing with sand in the Arctic city: case of Nadym. Ambio, 52, 1198–1210. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01868-7 


• Morozova, A. O., Nyland, K. E., & Kuklina, V.V. (2023). Taiga Landscape Degradation Evidenced by Indigenous Observations and Remote Sensing. Sustainability, 15(3), 1751, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15031751. 


• Sizov, O., Fedorov, R., Pechkina, Y., Kuklina, V., Michugin, M., & Soromotin, A. (2022). Urban Trees in the Arctic City: Case of Nadym. Land, 11(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11040531


• Kuklina, V., Sizov, O., Bogdanov, V., Krasnoshtanova N., Morozova, A., & Petrov, A. (2023). Combining Community Observations and Remote Sensing to Examine the Effects of Roads on Wildfires in the East Siberian Boreal Forest. Arctic Science, 9(2): 393-407. https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2021-0042. 


• Kuklina, V., Sizov, O., Rasputina E., Bilichenko, I., Krasnoshtanova N., Bogdanov, V., & Petrov, A. (2022). Fires on Ice: Emerging Permafrost Peatlands Fire Regimes in the Russia’s Subarctic Taiga. Land, 11(3), 322; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030322. 


• Fedorov, R., Sizov, O., Kuklina, V., Lobanov, A,, Soromotin, A., Pechkin, A., Pechkina, Y., & Esau, I. (2021). Possibilities of applying the concept of “winter city” in the Russian Arctic (on the example of the city of Nadym).. Arctica, 11 (2). Retrieved from https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10268484. https://doi.org/10.25283/2223-4594-2021-2-291-303

• Kuklina, V., Bilichenko, I., Bogdanov, V., Kobylkin, D., Petrov, A., & Shiklomanov, N. (2021). Informal Road Networks and Sustainability of Siberian Boreal Forest Landscapes: Case Study of the Vershina Khandy Taiga. Environmental Research Letters, 16(11), 115001, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac22bd.


• Fedorov, R., Kuklina, V., Sizov, O., Soromotin, A., Prihodko, N., Pechkin, A., Krasnenko, A., Lobanov, A., & Esau, I. (2021). Zooming in on Arctic Urban Nature: Green and Blue Space in Nadym, Siberia. Environmental Research Letters, 16(7), 075009. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac0fa3.


• Kuklina, V. & Krasnoshtanova, N. (2021). A Chain Reaction of Infrastructural Development and Its Local Social Consequences: the Case of the Western Section of the BAM. Russia and the Pacific, 1(111) 125-145 (In Russian). 


• Kuklina, V., Sizov, O., & Fedorov, R. (2021). Green Spaces as an Indicator of Urban Sustainability in the Arctic Cities: Case of Nadym. Polar Science, 29, 100672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polar.2021.100672. 


• Kuklina, V. & Baikalov, N. (2021). Informal Transportation and Social Embedding of the Railroad: the Case of Okurki on the Baikal-Amur Mainline. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 65(3), 320-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2021.1873159.


• Kuklina, V., Zaslavskaya, O., Podusenko, S., Bilichenko, I., Bogdanov, V., Kobylkin, D., Krasnoshtanova, N., Sizov, O., & Petrov, A. (2021). Transmedia Storytelling: Artscience Collaboration for Studies and Representation of Social-Ecological-Technological Systems. Earth and Space Science Open Archive, https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10505641.1.


• Solovyeva, V. & Kuklina, V. (2020). Resilience in a Changing World: Indigenous Sharing Networks in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Polar Record, 56, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247420000406.

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International - U.S. representative to the Social and Human Working Group of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC)

Professional - Board Member of the American Center for Mongolian Studies

Professional - Board Member of the Eurasian Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers