HHB is delighted to announce the affiliation to the Project of Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. Researchers in the University’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences, led by Beatrice Penati are collaborating with HHB to develop a database of household budgets from Russian and Soviet Central Asia covering the years from late 18th century to WWII. The richness of the data and the time and place that they illuminate represent a tremendous addition to the HHB database.