The Arctic File
Alina BykovaNewsletter by Alina Bykova – Stanford history PhD, think tank editor, writing about all things Arctic, Soviet, climate and academia
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Sverdrup’s Last Voyage
Svalbard in flames after bombing, 1942.
Source: Svalbard Museum
Four German bombers found Einar Sverdrup trapped in the ice off Svalbard on May 13, 1942.
He’d spent months fighting to return to his treasured Arctic coal mines, which the...
NATO: An Arctic alliance from day one
An Italian soldier poses for a photo during NATO’s Cold Response 2026 exercise in the Arctic. Credit: NATO Flickr
NATO will turn 77 years old next week. Today, the military alliance includes 32 member states, most recently expanded by the...
How the Soviets Conquered the Arctic
A Lenin statue in the Arctic. Behind it, a sign reads, “Our goal is Communism!” Credit: Alina Bykova
Russia’s Arctic power is often treated as a recent phenomenon – an accident of melting ice, resource hunger, and renewed tensions with the...
Carpal tunnel and the normalization of pain
I never realized the privilege of working slouched on my couch until I couldn’t do it anymore. It was March 2024. I had just come back from fieldwork in Norway, where I’d spent five weeks hunched over documents in the archives for eight hou...
Greenland’s Fate Belongs to Greenlanders
Above: houses in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital (credit: amanderson2)
What does the average person know of Greenland? Probably not a whole ton, up until this past week anyway. Most people in southern latitudes don’t think about the Arctic very...
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