General Information about the Scientific Activities of the Institute of Archaeology named after A. Kh. Khalikov of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences in 2020 by Sitdikov Airat G., Sattarov Ruzil R., Asylgaraeva Gulshat Sh.

“…The Institute annually publishes two academic peer-reviewed journals: The Volga River Region Archaeology and Archaeology of the Eurasian Steppes. …”
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On the correspondence between I.M. Grevs and S.I. Arkhangelsky (1920s): The aspects of personal biography and historiography by K.V. Gersh, A.A. Kuznetsov

“…Grevs’s biography – his travels along the Volga River, meetings with the figures of the Nizhny Novgorod Scientific Society for the Study of Local History – are offered. …”
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Assessment of the influence exercised by the hydrodynamic regime on the phytoplankton development and the water quality of the Kuibyshev Reservoir by A.V. Rakhuba

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Morphometric, hydrological characteristics and genesis of Lakes of the Povolzhskij section of the projected National Park Nizhegorodskoe Zavolzh'e by Astashin Andrej, Vatina Ol'ga, Podkovyrina Valeriya, Ogurcov Aleksandr, Tihanov Evgenij

“…The researched territory is located in the central part of the Nizhny Novgorod region in the left-bank part of the Volga River valley. Lakes are the landscape-forming framework of this territory. …”
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Intraspecific Hybrids Versus Purebred: A Study of Hatchery-Reared Populations of Sterlet <i>Acipenser ruthenus</i> by Sahana Shivaramu, Ievgen Lebeda, Vojtěch Kašpar, Martin Flajšhans

“…Hatchery-reared sterlet originating from the Danube and Volga river basins that showed population-discriminatory alleles on at least one microsatellite locus were used to produce purebred (within-population) and hybrid crosses to evaluate intraspecific hybridization with respect to the genetic polymorphism and physiological fitness of fish for commercial aquaculture and, conservation programs. …”
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The Problem of Effective Evacuation of the Population from Floodplains under Threat of Flooding: Algorithmic and Software Support with Shortage of Resources by Oksana Yu. Vatyukova, Anna Yu. Klikunova, Anna A. Vasilchenko, Alexander A. Voronin, Alexander V. Khoperskov, Mikhail A. Kharitonov

“…The minimum transport resources depend on the water discharge in the Volga river, the start of the evacuation, and the localization of temporary evacuation points. …”
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Application of RGB-synthesis for complex interpretation of geophysical data in the study of areas contaminated by oil products by Tatiana A. Mingaleva, Sergey V. Shakuro, Natalia P. Senchina, Alexey S. Egorov

“…The work considers the site on the Volga River bank, where soils are contaminated with petroleum products. …”
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PARASITES OF THE SPINY LOACH COBITIS TAENIA LINNAEUS, 1758 (PISCES: COBITIDAE) FROM SARATOV RESERVOIR by O. V. Mineeva

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Migration processes among Tatars of the Tetyushsky krai: directions, causes and results (the second half of the 16th – early 20th centuries by Elmira K. Salakhova

“…It is known that the territory of Volga Bulgaria stretched both in the left and right banks of the Volga River. It should also be noted that natives of the Tetyushsky Region founded some villages in the Almetyevsk and Spassk districts of the Republic of Tatarstan. …”
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Radiocarbon Chronology of the Burial Ground near the village of Syezzheye by Alexander A. Vybornov, Arkadiy I. Korolev, Marianna A. Kulkova, Nina L. Morgunova, Ekaterina V. Parhomchuk, Anton A. Shalapinin

“…This burial ground is interesting not only for the study of Eneolithic of forest zone in the Volga River region but also for the entire Mariupol historical and cultural area. …”
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Association of Jurineo charcoviensis-Koelerietum dubjanskyi from Penza region by Tat'yana M. Lysenko

Neolithic Patterns from the Vilovatoye Site: New Radiocarbon Chronology Data by Andreev Konstantin M., Somov Anatoly V., Kulkova Marianna A.

“…The article presents some latest absolute dates for Neolithic pottery from the Vilovatoye site, the latter being characterized by a most impressive pottery collection from the Middle and Late Neolithic across the forest-steppe Volga River basin. Goals. The work shall introduce a series of radiocarbon dates for Neolithic patterns of the Vilovatoye site. …”
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Mineralogy of interior jewellery ammonites of the Samara region by D. A. Petrochenkov, E. Yu. Baraboshkin

“…The ammonites under study can be collected along the coastal cliffs and beach area of the Volga river, thereby requiring no capital investments and producing no environmental pollution.…”
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Alien Algae Species Invasions in Humic Rivers within Weakly Human Impact Basin by Pavel Kulizin, Ekaterina Vodeneeva, Nikita Martynenko, Ekaterina Sharagina, Alexander Okhapkin

“…The expansion of alien representatives of microphytobenthos was noted in the Volga River basin for the first time. For <i>Gonyostomum semen</i>, its European origin was revealed, for plankton and benthic diatom—Ponto-Caspian. …”
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Isotope Signs (²³⁴U/²³⁸U, ²H, ¹⁸O) of Groundwater: An Investigation of the Existence of Paleo-Permafrost in European Russia (Pre-Volga R... by Evgeny Yakovlev, Igor Tokarev, Sergey Zykov, Stanislav Iglovsky, Nikolay Ivanchenko

“…The isotopic (²³⁴U/²³⁸U, ²H, ¹⁸O) and chemical composition of groundwater on the right bank of the Volga River along the middle reach (European Russia) was studied down to a depth of 400 m. …”
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Numerical hydrodynamic researches for justifying design of the Nizhny Novgorod low-head hydraulic system by Anna V. Glotko, Vitalii V. Belikov, Natalia M. Borisova, Ekaterina S. Vasil`eva, Aleksey B. Rumjancev

“…A problem area of the Volga river between the Nizhny Novgorod hydroelectric power station and the city of Nizhny Novgorod has been surveyed, where unfavourable conditions for navigation, power generation, and safe living in the downstream are formed as a result of the landing level. …”
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Pleistocene Glacial Refugia in the Don River Basin: Witness from the Endangered Depressed River Mussel by Ilya V. Vikhrev, Olesya A. Yunitsyna, Alexander V. Kondakov, Elizaveta P. Pestova, Galina V. Bovykina, Ekaterina S. Konopleva, Darya V. Kruk, Artem A. Lyubas, Alena A. Soboleva, Ivan N. Bolotov

“…We discovered a localized and highly divergent lineage in the Don River basin and a widespread but low diversified lineage distributed from the Volga River basin to the Oise River in France. A star-like haplotype network, results of mismatch analysis, and significant negative values of neutrality tests reveal that the pan-European lineage went through a bottleneck event. …”
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Statistical and Water Management Assessment of the Impact of Climate Change in the Reservoir Basin of the Volga–Kama Cascade on the Environmental Safety of the Lower Volga Ecosyste... by Alexander Buber, Mikhail Bolgov, Vladimir Buber

“…To manage the water resources of the Volga and Kama Rivers, the main ecological task is to flood the floodplain meadows, to maintain the conditions of natural reproduction of fish on the Lower Volga, including the Volga River delta and the Volga–Akhtuba floodplain. …”
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The Species Structure of Plankton Communities as a Response to Changes in the Trophic Gradient of the Mouth Areas of Large Tributaries to a Lowland Reservoir by Vyacheslav Zhikharev, Ekaterina Vodeneeva, Ivan Kudrin, Dmitry Gavrilko, Natalia Startseva, Pavel Kulizin, Oxana Erina, Maria Tereshina, Alexander Okhapkin, Galina Shurganova

“…The aim of this research was to identify the possible response of the diversity indicators of phyto- and zooplankton communities to trophic gradients in the mouth area of two large tributaries of the reservoir, formed in the Middle Volga River (Russia). Both linear regression models and canonical correlation analysis (CCA) were used to assess the role of abiotic and biotic predictors in the structural organization of plankton communities and to assess the changes in the parameters of the species plankton community structure in the trophic gradient. …”
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DISTRIBUTION AND COMPREHENSIVE DIAGNOSIS OF OPISTHORCHOSIS IN NON-COMMERCIAL CARP FISH IN CENTRAL RUSSIA by S. K. Shibitov

“…According to the results of the completed studies, the roach from the Desna River (the Moscow Region), the Nara River (the Kaluga Region), and the roach and the silver bream from the Volga River (the Tver Region) were infected with metacercarias Opisthorchis felineus, which was evidenced by the PCR. …”
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