Modern Russian Geomorpgology: Integration for the Future
https://doi.org/10.7868/S2658697525060018
Abstract
Since 2022, the journal Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya has been publishing thematic issues and special sections devoted to topical geographical problems. “Geographical patterns, natural and anthropogenic factors and parameters of relief development in Northern Eurasia in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene” is the ninth special issue of the journal. The issue contains a selection of ten articles prepared based on the results of the All-Russian scientific and practical conference with international participation “IX Shchukin Readings: For the 80th Anniversary of the Department of Geomorphology and Paleogeography and the 270th anniversary of Moscow University” and “XXXVIII Plenum of the Geomorphological Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, which was held in April 2025 by the Geographical Faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences. The articles based on the results of original scientific research are grouped into two sections: “Modern Quantitative and Process Geomorphology” and “Modern Paleogeomorphology”. Each section includes five articles. The articles of the section “Modern Quantitative and Process Geomorphology” touch upon the issues of studying the features of the formation and development of relief forms in a region with active hydrothermal activity, characterize the principles of creating and filling a database of modern exogenous processes, describe the principles of geomorphometric modeling and present maps based on its application for typical periglacial Antarctic territories, outline original approaches to compiling thematic maps of erosion factors for the Asian part of Russia, and propose a method for automated mapping of the degree of erosion of arable soils. Articles included in the section “Modern paleogeomorphology” are thematically divided into three areas: paleogeomorphology of fluvial processes in the rivers of Transbaikalia and the European part of Russia, reconstruction of the age and features of the formation of aeolian forms in two large regions of Siberia and paleogeomorphological reconstructions of the relief of the foothills of the Caucasus using the example of studying the history of the development of the relief of the Myussera Upland.
About the Authors
A. V. Bredikhin
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Moscow
V. N. Golosov
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography; Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Moscow
S. V. Shvarev
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences;
Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Moscow
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Bredikhin A.V., Golosov V.N., Shvarev S.V. Modern Russian Geomorpgology: Integration for the Future. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2025;89(6):873-883. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.7868/S2658697525060018
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