Rec. ad op.: Chelovek protiv okruzhayushchey sredy: Landshafty Velikoy Voiny v Vostochnoy Evrope / Ya. A. Golubinov, Yu. A. Zherdeva, A. S. Likhacheva, O. S. Nagornaia. Saint Petersburg, 2024

The new book by Yaroslavl and Samara historians, Man against the Environment, provides a new perspective for Russian historical science on the environmental component of the First World War in the Eastern European (Russian) theater of military operations. The authors consider the process of interaction between man and nature during the war in Galicia, Bukovina, the Kingdom of Poland and Romania, the most affected by the actions of the warring parties in 1914-1918.