Olga Tsepilova (born 1958) is a Russian sociologist and senior research fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences. She has been studying the social consequences of pollution in Russia, especially in closed nuclear zones like the

closed city A closed city or closed town is a settlement where travel or residency restrictions are applied so that specific authorization is required to visit or remain overnight. Such places may be sensitive military establishments or secret research ins ...

Ozyorsk in the southern Urals, the site of the infamous

Mayak The Mayak Production Association (russian: Производственное объединение «Маяк», , from 'lighthouse') is one of the biggest nuclear facilities in the Russian Federation, housing a reprocessing plant. The closest ...

nuclear facility.Nadezhda Kutepova & Olga Tsepilova, "A short history of the ZATO", p. 148-149 in ''Cultures of Contamination, Volume 14: Legacies of Pollution in Russia and the US'' (Research in Social Problems and Public Policy), eds. Michael Edelstein, Maria Tysiachniouk, Lyudmila V. Smirnova. JAI Press, 2007. These studies were not acclaimed by the Federal Security Service (FSB), which has accused her of engaging in espionage. Tsepilova appeared on

Time Magazine ''Time'' (stylized in all caps) is an American news magazine based in New York City. For nearly a century, it was published weekly, but starting in March 2020 it transitioned to every other week. It was first published in New York City on Mar ...

's list of "

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" October 2007.Olga Tsepilova - Heroes of the Environment - TIME - October 2007
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Russian sociologists Russian women sociologists Russian environmentalists Russian women environmentalists 1958 births Living people {{environmentalist-stub