ABSTRACT

This article presents an analysis of Baltic (particularly, Lithuanian) labor migration into the interior of the USSR during the late Soviet period. The authors discuss how these Baltic labor migrants participated in the creation of infrastructure for the northern oil-gas complex in western Siberia’s Tyumen region. The data collected and subsequent research suggest that the Lithuanian road and construction industry workers, and their accompanying organizational structures, managed to establish a kind of autonomy that allowed them to maintain close links with their homelands, while also creating a role for themselves in the eyes of the local population as representatives of ‘European’ culture.

摘要

本文分析了苏联后期波罗的海（特别是立陶宛）劳动力向苏联内部的迁移。作者讨论了这些波罗的海劳工移民如何参与为西西伯利亚秋明地区北部石油天然气综合体的基础设施建设。收集到的数据和随后的研究表明，立陶宛的道路和建筑业工人及其伴随的组织结构设法建立了一种自主权，使他们能够与家乡保持密切联系，同时也为自己创造了自己的角色当地居民作为“欧洲”文化的代表。