On January 9, 2021, the activist group “Chistaya Urdoma” (Clean Urdoma) announced the end of its long-running protest against the construction of a landfill at the Shiyes train station in Russia’s far-northern Arkhangelsk region, according to Meduza.
In a post on the social networking site Vkontakte, the group said that they “unanimously decided to acknowledge the demolition of the landfill as irreversible.” Chistaya Urdoma also added that they will not hinder “reclamation [restoration work] on the territory of Shiyes.”
In October 2020, the investor behind the project — Tekhnopark LLC — announced that it was halting construction and promised to recultivate the site by the summer of 2021.
