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Health Risks to the Russian Population from Temperature Extremes at the Beginning of the XXI Century

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2021
Climate change and climate-sensitive disasters caused by climatic hazards have a significant and increasing direct and indirect impact on human health. Due to its vast area, complex geographical environment and various climatic conditions, Russia is one ...
Elena A. Grigorieva, Boris A. Revich
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Combined Effect of Hot Weather and Outdoor Air Pollution on Respiratory Health: Literature Review

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2021
Association between short-term exposure to ambient air pollution and respiratory health is well documented. At the same time, it is widely known that extreme weather events intrinsically exacerbate air pollution impact.
Elena Grigorieva, Artem Lukyanets
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far east

open access: yesПроект Байкал, 2020
A little more than one and a half centuries ago, far eastern provinces became a part of Russia. A short but rich biography of this area remains poorly studied both by historians and theorists of architecture and urbanism.
Елена Григорьева   +1 more
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MAP SUPPORT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING OF A MEDIUM-SIZE INDUSTRIAL CITY

open access: yesInterCarto. InterGIS, 2016
The paper presents a set of thematic maps reflecting the current geo-ecological urban area conditions of Birobidzhan, an administrative and industrial center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. The maps shows landscape-functional complexes of the city; main
L. A. Matyushkina, V. B. Kalmanova
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Purge and Politics in the Periphery: Birobidzhan in 1937

open access: yesSlavic Review, 1993
Recent scholarship on the purges and Great Terror has contributed immensely to our understanding of the Stalinist political system that emerged in the mid-1980s. Research by J. Arch Getty and Gabor Rittersporn, among others, has challenged the totalitarian perspective that views the Terror as part of a grand scheme designed by Stalin to silence his ...
openaire   +3 more sources

The Rise of A Habitable Planet: Four Required Conditions for the Origin of Life in the Universe

open access: yesGeosciences, 2019
The advanced version of the author’s inversion concept of the origin of terrestrial life and its application for life in the Universe has been substantiated. A key step in the transition to life consists in the thermodynamic inversion of non-living
Vladimir Kompanichenko
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A failed Soviet attempt for Jewish settlement: The Birobidzhan project

open access: yes, 2012
This paper focuses on the history of the Birobidzhan region and its development as a Jewish settlement under Stalin. It argues that unwelcoming geographic and climatic conditions, administrative mistakes, and problems concerning development of a Jewish ...
Gökçek, Mustafa
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Formation of marginal seas of the Pacific ocean: A consequence of shear instability and asthenospheric diapirism

open access: yesВестник Камчатской региональной ассоциации "Учебно-научный центр". Серия: Науки о Земле, 2020
On the basis of the mechanism of instability of the shear zone between moving lithospheric plates, a new version of the model for the formation of marginal seas of the Pacific Ocean in the form of successive occurrence of wave stresses and vortex ...
Изосов Л.А.   +6 more
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„Zoo” i „makieta”. O dominujących sposobach pisania o Birobidżanie.

open access: yesAdeptus, 2018
A “zoo” and “mock-up”: On the most frequent ways of portraying Birobidzhan The article analyses the most common ways of depicting Birobidzhan by journalists, bloggers, film-makers and writers.
Agata Maksimowska
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Stalin\u27s Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan And The Making Of A Soviet Jewish Homeland: An Illustrated History, 1928-1996

open access: yes, 1998
In 1934 the Soviet government established the Jewish Autonomous Region in a sparsely populated area some five thousand miles east of Moscow. Located along the Sino-Soviet border, the Jewish Autonomous Region, popularly known as Birobidzhan, was ...
Weinberg, Robert
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