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Western Siberia in a changing climate
International Journal of Environmental Studies, 2014The present era of climate instability raises questions of landscape conservation and ecology generally, as well as socio-economic questions in northern regions of the world.
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2004
Cryosols are widespread in the northern and central regions of western Siberia, from 73°30′ to 62° N latitude, where they formed under a vast spectrum of conditions, from tundra to taiga, including swampy areas (Figure 2.8.1). Between 62° and 60° N latitude, these soils occur only within the coldest ecotopes of forest areas.
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Cryosols are widespread in the northern and central regions of western Siberia, from 73°30′ to 62° N latitude, where they formed under a vast spectrum of conditions, from tundra to taiga, including swampy areas (Figure 2.8.1). Between 62° and 60° N latitude, these soils occur only within the coldest ecotopes of forest areas.
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Thermal erosion in the north of Western Siberia
Polar Geography and Geology, 1986Abstract Gully landforms caused by thermal erosion which have been observed in the north of Western Siberia are discussed. A new index is introduced to characterize volumes of material removed by thermal erosion; the area has been subdivided into regions on the basis of the index values.
V. Ye. Zemchikhin, K. S. Voskresenskiy
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Palynology in the petroleum geology of Western Siberia
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 1986Abstract The great amount of data on palynology of the Mesozoic of Western Siberia has become a basis for the detailed stratigraphic distribution and correlation of petroliferous sediments. On the basis of palynological study using the data on all kinds of microphytofossils (spores, pollen, microphytoplankton) it has become possible to define more ...
L.V. Rovnina, S.I. Purtova, L.G. Markova
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Management of Road Safety in Western Siberia
SPE Russian Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition, 2010Foreword According to statistics, road accidents are perhaps the most frequent cause of death of external factors. The global road fatality indicator is several times higher than the total number of fatalities caused by work-related injuries and industrial disasters.
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On the History of Icon Painting in Western Siberia [PDF]
Soviet Anthropology and Archeology, 1991 Publications on the icon painting of Siberia are few. There are primarily the materials of A. I. Sulotskii, who worked in the mid-nineteenth century in the churches of Tobol'sk and in the archives with documents that were later lost, who viewed icons whose location is now unknown.1 Data on Siberian icons is found in articles by N. A.
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Water-Management Problems of Western Siberia
Soviet Geography, 1964AbstractThe author, who regards large reservoirs on plains streams as wasteful from the point of view of resource utilization, weighs the proposed construction of the Lower Ob' hydroelectric station and the flooding of a large part of the West Siberian Plain against integrated utilization of the region's resources, including agriculture, lumbering ...
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Transport and economic development in Western Siberia
1968Siberia is one of several mid-latitude continental interiors, developed by Europeans during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A distinctive common feature of this development has been a reliance on big, long-distance exports of low value-to-weight ratio minerals and agricultural staples, utilizing such concomitant advances in transport technology
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THE ETHNIC ENVIRONMENT OF DIASPORAS IN WESTERN SIBERIA
Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia, 2009The study of ethnic development and ethno-cultural adaptation of diasporas is one of the most important areas of research in Russian ethnography and history. Following successive migrations in the late 19th and early 20th cent., several diasporas emerged in Western Siberia, and were forced to adapt to local conditions.
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The Urbanization of Western Siberia: A Historian’s View
Problems of Economic Transition, 2019This article is devoted to studying the main trends in the historical process of urbanization of Western Siberia across several centuries, right up until the mid-twentieth century.
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