The northern sea route : commercial potential, economic significance, and infrastructure requirements
Arctic Region ; Commodity ; Flow ; International trade ; Regional economy ; Regulation ; Russia ; Sea transport ; Transport
The A. surveys past, present and potential future Northern Sea Route cargo flows. The route's economic potential and importance, both as an international transit route and as transport corridor to and from the Russia Arctic regions, are discussed
Holocene paleohydrology and paleoclimate at treeline, North-Central Russia, inferred from oxygen isotope records in lake sediment cellulose
Arctic Region ; Cold area ; Geochemistry ; Holocene ; Lacustrine sediment ; Oxygen 18 ; Palaeo-environment ; Palaeoclimate ; Palaeohydrology ; Russia ; Tree line ; West Siberia
Rivers of northernRussia. These studies are supplemented by isotopic analysis of samples of modern meteoric water, including precipitation, groundwater, and ground-ice, which provide insight into the modern isotope hydrology. The isotopic records
Long-term temperature trends and tree growth in the Taymir region of northern Siberia
Arctic Region ; Climatic trend ; Conifer ; Dendroclimatology ; Eighteenth Century ; Nineteenth Century ; Palaeoclimatology ; Russia ; Seventeenth Century ; Siberia ; Summer ; Temperature ; Twentieth Century
The northernmost conifers in the world are located well above the Arctic Circle in the Taymir region of northern Siberia and have been recording the thermal environment for centuries to millennia. Data from annual tree-ring widths are used
Holocene treeline history and climate change across northern Eurasia
Arctic Region ; C 14 dating ; Climatic variation ; Holocene ; Palaeo-environment ; Palynology ; Quaternary ; Russia ; Siberia ; Tree line
eastward to the Lena River Delta. The AA. combine these new dates with previously published Russian data to reconstruct the Holocene establishment of northern boreal forest and the subsequent history of the Eurasian treeline. They then examine the climatic
The full-glacial environment of the northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska, reconstructed from the 21,500-year-Old Kitluk Paleosol
and to test the predictions of the mammoth-steppe model for this region. No exact analogues are known; however, soils underlying dry tundra near the artic coast of northern Yakutia, Russia, and under moist, nonacidic tundra of the Alaskan North Slope have
Surviving the margins in post-Soviet Russia : forestry villages in northern Perm' Oblast
Depopulation ; Economic restructuring ; European part of Russia ; Food security ; Living conditions ; Living standard ; Logging ; Oblast ; Perm ; Regional economy ; Resource management ; Village
Atmospheric pollution ; Chemical pollution ; European part of Russia ; Hydrochemistry ; Kola Peninsula ; Lake ; Mineralization ; Murmansk ; NorthernRussia ; Water quality ; Watershed
European part of Russia ; Human impact ; Hydrochemistry ; Interannual variability ; Mineralization ; NorthernRussia ; Pollution ; Regression analysis ; Spatial variation ; Stream ; Water pollution
Spatial patterns of political choice in the post-Yel'tsin era : the electoral geography of Russia's2000 presidential election
Behaviour ; Correlation ; Election ; Electoral behaviour ; Political geography ; Regional disparities ; Russia ; Socio-economic system ; Spatial distribution
Les AA. analysent les configurations spatiales du vote de l'élection présidentielle de mars 2000 en relation avec les caractéristiques socio-économiques sous-jacentes des régions russes.
Quaternary paleosols, tephra deposits and landscape history in South Kamchatka, Russia
Asian part of Russia ; Fluvioglacial features ; Geochemistry ; Glacial features ; Iron ; Kamchatka ; Palaeosol ; Permafrost ; Quaternary ; Russian Far East ; Soil properties ; Tephrochronology ; Weathering