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    Nicolas Maughan

  2. National Research University Higher School of Economics, 17, Promyshlennaia Str, St. Petersburg, Russia, 190008

    Alexey Kraikovski & Julia Lajus

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Maughan, N., Kraikovski, A. & Lajus, J. Living side by side: the water environment, technological control and urban culture in the Russian and Western history. Water Hist 10, 133–140 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-018-0221-x

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