TY  - Data
T1  - Glaciation in North and Central Asia in the modern era
A1  - Documentation Information Center
DO  - 10.12389/ariddc.02301
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026-09-11
PB  - Arid Land Ecology and Resources Science Data Center
AB  - This book presents the results of glaciological research carried out by the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences over the past 10 to 15 years. These studies were conducted primarily by researchers of the Department of Glaciology, with contributions from scientists of the Climatology Laboratory as well. The Institute’s largest scientific division, the Department of Glaciology, was established in 1957 by G. A. Avsyuk, then Deputy Director of the Institute of Geography of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, with the aim of organizing extensive investigations of mountain and polar glaciers during the International Geophysical Year. Dozens of young people who had just graduated from universities and entered scientific research participated in this work. At that time, the average age of the Department’s researchers was only slightly above thirty.During its initial years, the Department’s efforts were devoted primarily to processing data obtained during the International Geophysical Year under extremely difficult overwintering conditions in Antarctica, the Polar Urals, and the Arctic islands of Russia. Nearly all of the material collected during that period was published in the series Data of Glaciological Studies, which, in the pre-computer era, served as the principal source of primary data. These intensive efforts achieved remarkable success. Researchers of the Department published several important monographs (Kotlyakov, 1961; Glaciation of the Urals, 1966; Glaciation of Novaya Zemlya, 1968; Glaciation of Franz Josef Land, 1973). They also became pioneers in compiling the Catalogue of Glaciers of the USSR (1965-1982) and in conducting studies on representative mountain-glacier basins within the framework of UNESCO’s International Hydrological Programme and the national glacier fluctuation monitoring program.Major expeditions to the Central Caucasus and the Pamirs produced significant results, which formed the basis for two new scientific concepts:
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