Alexey Rusakov

Available data on salt-affected soils of the Rostov lowland in the Upper Volga region and the Nero lake basin are predominantly based on observations made in the beginning of the last century. Modern studies of potential areas of soils salinization in this region are absent. As a result of the conducted investigations considering long-term stages of the groundwater level decreasing within the area of Rostov lowland on a background of the known trends of the climate change, the question on the salinization phenomenon is still opened. Following the results of the second cycle of monitoring investigations in 2016-2017, we made an assessment of the salinization degree of the subaqual landscape on the II terrace of Nero lake. The possibility of hydromorphic solonchaks forming was shown. The factors and conditions of their forming and the relatively sus-tainable functioning in the humid climate of the southern taiga subzone were examined. The seasonal dynamics of the profile distribution of water-soluble salts, carbonates, gypsum and storage of salts in two soil pits within the impact zone of the salty spring (the former salt industry center) was revealed. To identify the long-term salinization dynamics in the Varnitsy landscape the information on water types from the salty spring, groundwater and soil extraction over a period of a hundred years of sporadic observations was analyzed. The current monitoring data indicated active salinization processes in the landscape and salts migration beyond the soil profile into the associated system of the Nero lake tributaries.

10.19047/0136-1694-2018-93-40-74

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Anisotropy of the properties of some anthropogenically transformed soils of podzolic type

Eurasian Soil Science (2009)

A. I. Pozdnyakov Alexey Rusakov S. M. Shalaginova A. D. Pozdnyakova

10.1134/s1064229309110039

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Paleoenvironmental reconstruction based on the study of soils of an early iron age kurgan cemetery in the forest-steppe zone of the Russian plain

CATENA (2024)

D. Mikhaylova О. С. Хохлова Alexander Makeev Pavel Kust Elena Aseyeva

Steppe

Forest steppe

10.1016/j.catena.2024.108665

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Soils at archaeological monuments of the Bronze Age – A key to the Holocene landscape dynamics in the broadleaf forest area of the Russian Plain

Quaternary International (2020)

Alexander Makeev Alexey Rusakov Fatima Kurbanova О. С. Хохлова Pavel Kust

Paleosol

Phytolith

10.1016/j.quaint.2020.09.015

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The Bryansk fossil soil of the extraglacial zone of the Valday glaciation as an indicator of landscape and soil forming processes in the center of the Russian Plain

Deleted Journal (2004)

Alexey Rusakov Mariya A. Korkka

The morphologic-analytical features of the Bryansk fossil soil classified as Umbric Gley Soil formed in moraine loams and overlain by Upper Pleistocene moraine of the Valday (Wurmian) glaciation are described. This paleosol, formed during the Dunaevo Interstadial of the upper Pleistocene and corresponding to the marine isotope stage 3, is confined to the extraglacial zone of the Valday glaciation. The paleosol marks the northernmost area of existence of the Bryansk soil cover in Europe. It is shown that the Bryansk fossil soil can serve as a direct indicator of landscape and soil forming processes in the center of the Russian Plain.

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Biozone

Gleysol

Terminal moraine

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Paleosols in the moraine-mantle loam sequence of northeastern Europe: The memory of pedogenesis rates and evolution of the environment during OIS3

CATENA (2007)

Alexey Rusakov Maria Korkka P. P. Kerzum А. N. Simakova