Professional Affiliation

Project Manager, Industrialization and Urban Landscape of the Industrial South of the Russian Empire, Kharkiv National University, Ukraine.

Wilson Center Project

“Corp’s, Community, and Control: Company Towns in Ukraine and the U.S.”

Project Summary

The aim of the proposed research is to explore how the shift in operational decision-making from business owners to hired professionals influenced the social, economic, and cultural environments of company towns in Ukraine and the United States. Four Ukrainian cases (Alchevsk, Dniprodzerzhynsk, Donetsk, and Yenakiieve) will be compared with select American company towns that were also based on heavy industrial enterprises, such as Aliquippa, Braddock, and Vandergrift. The research is based on an analysis of business archives, periodicals, memoirs, folklore, as well as unpublished visual sources housed in local museums and archives.