Preservation

The longer the history of a city runs, the deeper its issues of preservation. What should be preserved, what should be redeveloped, and what should be discarded as the city grows, changes, and ages? This section is devoted to a handful of articles that deal specifically with these issues.

Irkutsk’s Old Houses: Windows to Siberia

The following was contributed by Renee Stillings, Program Director following her recent visit to Irkutsk to check up on SRAS programs there. Those programs include Russian as a Second Language, Siberian Studies, and more. My first visit to Irkutsk happened over twenty years ago, when I was looking to expand study abroad options for SRAS […]

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