This paper explores how the “ecological thought” (Morton) finds its expression in two works by the Russophone writer from Tajikistan Andrej Volos (b. 1955): the prose poem “Atlantida” (2006) and the short story “Volna” (2011). In both texts, the myth of Atlantis becomes central to Volos’s engagement with the post-Soviet condition, where landscapes appear unstable and unrecognizable. I argue that Volos constructs a literary ecosystem in which displacement, historical trauma, and the dissolution of spatial and temporal coordinates are embodied in the motif of Atlantis. The submerged city functions both as a symbol of vanished worlds and as a figure for lost ecosystems that continue to echo within the post-Soviet subject. Volos’s prose also incorporates nonhuman perspectives, further underscoring how an ecological approach to “Atlantida” and “Volna” illustrates the entanglement of landscape and memory, and reveals the distinctive contribution of his writing to post-Soviet literature. This approach not only illuminates the peculiarities of Volos’s work, but also contributes to broader conversations about ecology and memory in the geological era of the Anthropocene in the field of contemporary Russophone and writing from Central Asia.
