Reports on Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais' trip to Krasnoyarsk and Yakutsk, Siberia. Krasnoyarsk governor Velry Zubov's demand that the special interbudgetary relations with Tataria, Bashkiria, Ingushetia and Yakutia be renounced; Extension of Yakutia's pact with Russia; Chuba...
Accumulated surface fuel loads due to increased tree mortality from drought, insects, and other factors, especially at the southern forest border and in the Siberian interior (Yakutia), together with an increase in severe fire weather, should also lead to increases in large, high-severity fires ...
We thank Prof. Malcolm Hughes for organizing expedition on the northeastern Yakutia and Oksana Naumova, Dmitriy Ovchinnikov and Elisa Salaorni for their help in the tree-ring laboratory. Special thanks to Dr. Kate Holmes for her English-native proofreading. We gratefully acknowledge two anonymous ...
Accumulated surface fuel loads due to increased tree mortality from drought, insects, and other factors, especially at the southern forest border and in the Siberian interior (Yakutia), together with an increase in severe fire weather, should also lead to increases in large, high-severity fires ...
Here, we ask whether the same pattern exists in a region with an upper bound on productivity caused by a harsh climate. We sampled herbaceous vegetation of boreal forests and grasslands in a low-productive region of central Yakutia (NE Siberia) with dry and winter-cool continental climate. We...
The Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) is Russia’s longest northern railroad, running in parallel to the famous Transsib railway further south. The BAM crosses six federal subjects in East Siberia (Irkutskaya Oblast’, the Republic of Buryatiya, Zabaikal’skiy Kray) and the Russian Far East (Amurskay...
The greatest \({\mathrm{\Delta }}\bar T_b\) since 2008–2009 was 1.15 °C, observed in the Aldan mountain tundra of southern Yakutia, Siberia (Taezhnoe, 25 m). On average, permafrost across zones warmed by 0.33 ± 0.16 °C over the reference decade in northern Asia...
Box 2.2 Silicon Taiga This technological hub has its roots in the 1950s, when the Soviet Academy of Sciences founded the educational and scientific centre Akademgorodok in Novosibirsk, a large city in Siberia, and established dozens of research institutes there. A few years later, the Novosibirsk...
From the history of the study of the diet in North-Eastern Siberia: from the paleo diet to Coca-Cola in just 100 years The work attempts to reconstruct the chemical composition and energy value of the diet in Yakutia based on data provided by A. Middendorff (1842鈥 1845) and V. Serosh...
Construction started in the 1920s on the Pacific coast at Magadan and moved slowly inland. The road stretches for more than 1,200 kilometres and they say that every metre cost a human life. It was the discovery of gold in this part of Siberia--the Sakha Republic or Yakutia--that inspir...