A comprehensive historical study on the 1920s industrial revival of Gomel province and Belarus: Dobrush 'Hero of Labor' Paper Mill, the Polessky Match Trust monopoly, Gomel Railway Workshops, Klintsy woolen mills, and the origins of modern machine-tool engineering.
A detailed historical investigation of the 1921–1922 famine in Gomel province and Belarus, the official attachment to the Volga German Commune, the arrival of 6,000 evacuated children, public works on the Sozh River, and the fierce campaign to requisition church valuables.
A detailed historical investigation of the agrarian crisis in Gomel province and Polesia during the NEP era (1920–1926), the ideological battle between collective settlements and individual khutors, and the mass state-organized peasant migration to Siberia, the Altai, and the Far East.
An archival and historical study on political struggles, territorial transfers between Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, partisan movements, and local power organization in the Gomel region from the 1917 Revolution to the eve of collectivization, based on the 1924 Gomel Provincial Committee archives.
A comprehensive historical study of postwar land reclamation in the BSSR: institutional frameworks of Minvodkhoz and Glavpolesievodstroy, engineering design by Belgiprovodkhoz, Academician S. G. Skoropanov's school at BelNIIMiVH, regional research stations, polder development, ecological controversies, and Chernobyl hydrological defense works.
The history of land reclamation and peatland science in Belarus from the earliest drainage efforts in the 16th century through the Zhilinsky Western Expedition, the Minsk Peatland Station, and the All-Union Peatland Institute up to 1941.
