Mark Ely 

Affiliation:

Senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (NCSR), deputy director of the Center for the Study of Russia, the Caucasus, Central Europe and Central Asia of the NCSR and the School of Higher Social Studies (Aubervilliers, France), member of the university network of researchers in environmental history (RUCHE, France), European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) and the Board of Memorial-France, PhD (Paris, French Republic).

Sphere of professional interests:

Environmental problems and the environment, history of the relationship between man and the environment, history of science, research in science and technology, history of the USSR, history of international scientific exchanges, history of Soviet Kazakhstan, history of agriculture in the USSR, history of the penitentiary system in the USSR, history of repression in the USSR, history of natural disasters.