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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,545 Views
23 Pages

15 March 2021

Crimea is a very attractive tourist destination with a high rank of tourist values, being natural and cultural heritage, with high recognition on the international tourist market. Since 2014, the tourism economy has been in a protracted crisis, cause...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,843 Views
14 Pages

Current Trends in HIV Infection in the Republic of Crimea

  • Aleksei Mazus,
  • Anastasiia Antonova,
  • Ruslan Adgamov,
  • Daria Ogarkova,
  • Anna Kuznetsova,
  • Andrei Pochtovyi,
  • Elena Tsyganova,
  • Vladimir Zlobin,
  • Vladimir Gushchin and
  • Aleksandr Gintsburg
  • + 1 author

31 October 2024

The aim of this study was to analyse the trends in HIV infection, including diagnostic ones, in the Republic of Crimea in the period of 2014–2023. The source of data for this study was various statistical forms and reports. The findings reveale...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,921 Views
17 Pages

1 March 2023

Coastal zones are extremely vulnerable and, at the same time, anthropogenically pressed. Excessive enrichment of marine waters with nutrients and organic matter can lead to “red tides”, oxygen deficits, decreasing assimilation capacity, e...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,303 Views
15 Pages

The First Data of Strontium Isotopic Composition of Osteological Material from Late Bronze to Early Iron Age Settlements in the Crimea Region

  • Marianna A. Kulkova,
  • Maya T. Kashuba,
  • Yulia V. Kozhukhovskaya,
  • Vitaliy A. Tikhomirov and
  • Alexander M. Kulkov

16 April 2024

Comparison of the 87Sr/86Sr signatures of archaeological osteological material with features of geological provinces can be applied to determine the places of birth and living of individuals. Such reconstructions were conducted for both humans and do...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,617 Views
14 Pages

Water Balance Components of Sub-Mediterranean Downy Oak Landscapes of Southeastern Crimea

  • Roman Gorbunov,
  • Vladimir Tabunshchik,
  • Tatiana Gorbunova and
  • Mariia Safonova

27 August 2022

This article discusses the processes of moisture intake, redistribution, and consumption within the downy oak forest community, along with their interannual and interseasonal water balance dynamics. The study of the water balance components was condu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,253 Views
11 Pages

Artemia spp. (Crustacea, Anostraca) in Crimea: New Molecular Genetic Results and New Questions without Answers

  • Anastasia Lantushenko,
  • Yakov Meger,
  • Alexandr Gadzhi,
  • Elena Anufriieva and
  • Nickolai Shadrin

25 August 2022

Many works have been devoted to the study of the molecular genetic diversity of Artemia in different regions; however, there are regions such as Crimea, the largest peninsula in the Black Sea, which has seen few studies. Artemia specimens from severa...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,798 Views
17 Pages

The Assessment of Agrobiological and Disease Resistance Traits of Grapevine Hybrid Populations (Vitis vinifera L. × Muscadinia rotundifolia Michx.) in the Climatic Conditions of Crimea

  • Vladimir Volynkin,
  • Irina Vasylyk,
  • Vitalii Volodin,
  • Elizaveta Grigoreva,
  • Dmitry Karzhaev,
  • Ekaterina Lushchay,
  • Pavel Ulianich,
  • Vladimir Volkov,
  • Valentina Risovannaya and
  • Elena Potokina
  • + 5 authors

15 June 2021

The Crimean autochthonous grape varieties are unique by their origin and serve as a valuable source for breeding new cultivars with increased salt and frost resistance, as well as high-quality berries. However, they suffer from fungal pathogens, as t...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,525 Views
17 Pages

Daily Rhythms and Oxygen Balance in the Hypersaline Lake Moynaki (Crimea)

  • Nickolai Shadrin,
  • Elena Anufriieva,
  • Alexander Latushkin,
  • Alexander Prazukin and
  • Vladimir Yakovenko

18 November 2022

Field observations of the diurnal behavior of several parameters (oxygen concentration, chlorophyll fluorescence, photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), wind speed, temperature, suspended matter concentration, and zooplankton abundance) were cond...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,665 Views
19 Pages

Severe Precipitation Phenomena in Crimea in Relation to Atmospheric Circulation

  • Vladislav P. Evstigneev,
  • Valentina A. Naumova,
  • Dmitriy Y. Voronin,
  • Pavel N. Kuznetsov and
  • Svetlana P. Korsakova

18 October 2022

The increase in the frequency and intensity of hazardous hydrometeorological phenomena is one of the most dangerous consequences of climate instability. In this study, we summarize the data on severe weather phenomena using the data from 23 meteorolo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,010 Views
28 Pages

6 September 2022

The authoritarian regime in Russia represents a political context of societal turmoil in which the challenges for building sustainability can be studied. We explore intentional communities (ICs) with an environmental component that often appear with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,082 Views
6 Pages

27 September 2018

The winter roost of the long-eared owl Asio otus in Crimea (South of Ukraine), located in Simferopol, is described. In 2015–2017, the number of long-eared owls varied on a convex curve, with the maximum reached at the end of November and in Dec...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,134 Views
23 Pages

28 September 2023

In the context of a changing environment, understanding the interaction between vegetation and climate is crucial for assessing, predicting, and adapting to future changes in different vegetation types. Vegetation exhibits high sensitivity to externa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,243 Views
13 Pages

27 November 2023

Unicellular protozoa form calcium carbonate tests. It is important to understand the features and mechanisms of its formation. This may shed light on the processes of shell formation in metazoans. One of the most important characteristics of the Prot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,797 Views
21 Pages

Heat Budget of Sub-Mediterranean Downy Oak Landscapes of Southeastern Crimea

  • Mariia Safonova,
  • Vladimir Tabunshchik,
  • Roman Gorbunov and
  • Tatiana Gorbunova

22 September 2023

This article presents the findings of a research endeavor focused on the diurnal and seasonal dynamics of heat balance and its constituent elements within an oak forest situated in the expanse of the Karadag Nature Reserve. Computed are the values co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,463 Views
25 Pages

21 March 2023

In this paper, we analyzed the diversity and structure of helminth communities of 12 common fish species from the coastal zone of Crimea. A total of 53 helminth species were found. The total number of parasite species per host fish ranged from 3 to 1...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,850 Views
9 Pages

First Report and Molecular Characterization of Umbra-like Virus on Ficus carica Caprifig Trees in Crimea

  • Elena Motsar,
  • Anna Sheveleva,
  • Fedor Sharko,
  • Irina Mitrofanova and
  • Sergei Chirkov

14 August 2024

Fig mosaic is the most serious viral disease affecting figs. A fig germplasm collection from the Nikita Botanical Garden on the Crimean Peninsula was surveyed for viruses using high-throughput sequencing and RT-PCR with primers specific to known fig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,473 Views
14 Pages

Distribution and Genesis of Aliphatic Hydrocarbons in Bottom Sediments of Coastal Water Areas of the Crimea (the Black and Azov Seas)

  • Olga Soloveva,
  • Elena Tikhonova,
  • Sergey Alyomov,
  • Natalia Mirzoeva,
  • Ekaterina Skuratovskaya,
  • Gennady Matishov and
  • Viktor Egorov

26 August 2024

The aim of the article is to assess the level of aliphatic hydrocarbon (AHC) contamination in bottom sediments of the Azov–Black Sea coast of the Crimea, as well as to identify potential sources of its formation. Bottom sediment samples obtaine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,263 Views
15 Pages

Assessment of the Atmospheric Deposition of Heavy Metals and Other Elements in the Mountain Crimea Using Moss Biomonitoring Technique

  • Pavel Nekhoroshkov,
  • Alexandra Peshkova,
  • Inga Zinicovscaia,
  • Konstantin Vergel and
  • Alexandra Kravtsova

2 April 2022

The atmospheric depositions of heavy metals and other elements on the territory of Crimean Mountains in 2015 was assessed using the moss biomonitoring technique. The neutron activation analysis performed at the installation REGATA of the IBR-2 reacto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,073 Views
14 Pages

7 September 2022

For several years, the prawn Palaemon adspersus population was studied in a hypersaline lake (Crimea) for the first time. P. adspersus is a more halotolerant species than previously thought and can survive and breed up to a salinity of 55 g/L and pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,075 Views
15 Pages

Seasonal Variability of Nutrients and Radium Isotope Fluxes from Submarine Karstic Spring at the Southwest of Crimea, Black Sea

  • Illarion I. Dovhyi,
  • Ol’ga N. Kozlovskaia,
  • Nikolay A. Bezhin,
  • Iuliia G. Shibetskaia,
  • Aleksey I. Chepyzhenko and
  • Ivan G. Tananaev

13 February 2022

The groundwaters of the southwestern region of Crimea are formed on the karst plateaus of the Crimean Mountains, and a significant amount of them is discharged into the Black Sea. The Crimean Peninsula is a water-deficient region; therefore, the stud...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,843 Views
23 Pages

12 February 2022

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), in particular benzo(a)pyrene (BaP), are priority organic pollutants coming from various anthropogenic sources. The levels of accumulation and the spatial distribution of BaP in urban soils, road dust and their...

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  • Open Access
1,945 Views
24 Pages

This article is about the diversity of diatoms in the benthos of the upper sublittoral near Kazantip Cape, located on the shore of the Sea of Azov in the northeastern part of Crimea. The study was conducted in 2022 and 2023 at a depth of 0.1 to 1 m a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,847 Views
16 Pages

Exploring the Influence of Diverse Viticultural Systems on Soil Health Metrics in the Northern Black Sea Region

  • Valeria Gabechaya,
  • Irina Andreeva,
  • Dmitriy Morev,
  • Alexis Yaroslavtsev,
  • Alexander Neaman and
  • Ivan Vasenev

The present study investigates the functionalecological status of typical light clay soils in vineyards in the southern region of Crimea, using both traditional (including fallow soils) and organic land-use systems. This analysis was carried out by e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,286 Views
16 Pages

A Transition Period Ritual of the Karay Turks: Death

  • Emine Atmaca,
  • Reshide Gözdaş,
  • Ekin Kaynak Iltar,
  • Rabia Akçoru and
  • Süleyman Ertan Tağman

4 July 2023

Karaism is a Jewish sect that emerged in the Middle Ages and became the name of a Turkish tribe in time. Its name is derived from “kara- (K-R-A)”, meaning “the ones who can read the sacred scripture” in Aramaic–Hebrew. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,800 Views
26 Pages

16 November 2023

As part of a survey of the subcortical astigmatic mites of Crimea, we discovered a new sexual acarid species, Thyreophagus tauricus sp. n. This species was cultured in the laboratory to correlate the adult and deutonymphal stages. Using specimens obt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,577 Views
28 Pages

10 April 2024

This article discusses a poorly studied child elite burial discovered in 1953 at the necropolis of Panticapaeum, situated near the modern city of Kerch, Crimea. A reassessment of previous research is urgently needed since it did not offer an analysis...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,288 Views
15 Pages

4 December 2021

Atmospheric depositions have been recently recognized as an important source of nutrients for off-shore marine systems, in line with the coastal input and physical exchange. The input of nutrients with atmospheric depositions can change their invento...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,455 Views
26 Pages

29 September 2021

Mollusks are a prospective food for the world’s growing population, but the contents of toxic and essential trace elements in them have not been studied comprehensively. In this work, using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, the contents o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,123 Views
22 Pages

11 September 2022

In the frame of the radioecological monitoring after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, the features of migration and distribution of artificial radionuclides in the North Crimean Canal (NCC) irrigation system were studied. Standard methods...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,836 Views
14 Pages

Rare Earth Elements in the Seagrass Zostera noltei and Sediments from the Black Sea Coast of Crimea

  • Vitaliy I. Ryabushko,
  • Sergey V. Kapranov,
  • Elena V. Gureeva,
  • Nikolay I. Bobko and
  • Sophia S. Barinova

20 October 2023

In the present work, we assessed the contents of rare earth elements (REEs), including yttrium and scandium, in rhizomes and leaves of the widespread seagrass Zostera noltei Hornemann 1832 and in the nearby sediments from the Black Sea coast. The tot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,819 Views
12 Pages

18 July 2019

In this work, the species diversity of epilithon diatoms of Donuzlav Gulf (Crimean coastal waters of the Black Sea) is presented for the first time. A total of 60 taxa of Bacillariophyta belonging to 3 classes, 18 families and 34 genera were found. T...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,445 Views
17 Pages

30 May 2021

In hypersaline water bodies, the microphytobenthos plays a very important ecosystem role and demonstrates variability along with a salinity change. Due to anthropogenic activity, the sharp salinity increase in Bay Sivash occurred after 2014. To asses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,400 Views
22 Pages

Assessing Climate and Human Activity Effects on Hypersaline Lake Ecosystem: Case Study of Saki Lake, Crimea

  • Irina Ivanovna Rudneva,
  • Pavel Vital’evich Gaisky,
  • Valentin Grigor’evich Shaida and
  • Oleg Valentinovich Shaida

23 January 2023

In the Crimean Peninsula, there are several hypersaline lakes that have hydromineral and biological resources. However, they are under a significant anthropogenic load, which together with the climate change leads to negative consequences for the eco...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,564 Views
17 Pages

Human-Induced Sharp Salinity Changes in the World’s Largest Hypersaline Lagoon Bay Sivash (Crimea) and Their Effects on the Ecosystem

  • Elena Anufriieva,
  • Elena Kolesnikova,
  • Tatiana Revkova,
  • Alexander Latushkin and
  • Nickolai Shadrin

28 January 2022

Lakes and lagoons play an important role worldwide, and salinity fluctuations significantly affect their ecosystems. Bay Sivash, the world’s largest hypersaline water body, underwent a sharp change in salinity, induced by the closing of the Nor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,296 Views
12 Pages

Melittin-Related Peptides Interfere with Sandfly Fever Naples Virus Infection by Interacting with Heparan Sulphate

  • Annalisa Chianese,
  • Carla Zannella,
  • Francesca Palma,
  • Laura Di Clemente,
  • Alessandra Monti,
  • Nunzianna Doti,
  • Anna De Filippis and
  • Massimiliano Galdiero

Emerging viruses pose an important global public health challenge, and early action is needed to control their spread. The Bunyaviridae family contains a great number of arboviruses which are potentially pathogenic for humans. For example, phleboviru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,142 Views
23 Pages

22 November 2022

A new species of the genus Niphargus Schiödte, 1849 (Crustacea: Amphipoda), co-occurring with water louse Asellus cf. aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Crustacea: Isopoda) in deep wells, is described from the Tarkhankut Upland, located in the northwes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
14,164 Views
20 Pages

Political Instability Equals the Collapse of Tourism in Ukraine?

  • Natalia Tomczewska-Popowycz and
  • Łukasz Quirini-Popławski

7 April 2021

The purpose of this study was to determine how political instability influences inbound tourist flows in Ukrainian cities, performance of tourism-related businesses, and tourism-based profits in general. This study allows us to present the impact of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,710 Views
15 Pages

Does Salinity Affect the Distribution of the Artificial Radionuclides 90Sr and 137Cs in Water of the Saline Lakes? A Case of the Crimean Peninsula

  • Natalia Mirzoeva,
  • Nickolai Shadrin,
  • Svetlana Arkhipova,
  • Oksana Miroshnichenko,
  • Natalia Kravchenko and
  • Elena Anufriieva

26 January 2020

In the framework of radioecological monitoring, the features of the distribution of the post-Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) accident artificial radionuclides of 137Cs and 90Sr in the Crimean saline lakes were studied. Samples were collected from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,227 Views
11 Pages

Geochemical Features of Fallow Land in Ancient Plots in the Chora of Chersonesos

  • Fedor Lisetskii,
  • Eugenia Zelenskaya and
  • Maria Rodionova

The ancient city of Chersonesos created an agricultural zone in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC (under the conditions of climate aridization); this zone was initially used for viticulture and the export of wine, and grain farming later developed at the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,451 Views
16 Pages

A Study of the Elemental Profiles of Wines from the North-Eastern Coast of the Black Sea

  • Lev A. Oganesyants,
  • Alexandr L. Panasyuk,
  • Dmitriy A. Sviridov,
  • Olesya S. Egorova,
  • Dilyara R. Akbulatova,
  • Mikhail Y. Ganin,
  • Aleksey A. Shilkin and
  • Alexandr A. Il’in

Due to the increasing consumer interest in wines with a controlled place of origin, PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) and PDO (Protected Designation of Origin), the most acute question is how to identify them. One of the most effective ways to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,583 Views
14 Pages

Distribution and Genetic Diversity of Grapevine Viruses in Russia

  • Elena Porotikova,
  • Uliana Terehova,
  • Vitalii Volodin,
  • Eugeniya Yurchenko and
  • Svetlana Vinogradova

27 May 2021

Viral diseases can seriously damage the vineyard productivity and the quality of grape and wine products. Therefore, the study of the species composition and range of grapevine viruses is important for the development and implementation of strategies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,575 Views
22 Pages

10 June 2023

Although the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis has been known for decades as an excellent bioindicator of trace element pollution in the marine environment, there is still no information on the effects of a suite of its principal morphometric paramete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,875 Views
14 Pages

Zooplankton in the Technogenic Aquatic Ecosystem of the North Crimean Canal, the Longest in Europe

  • Nickolai Shadrin,
  • Vladimir Yakovenko,
  • Igor Moseychenko and
  • Elena Anufriieva

22 June 2023

The construction and use of navigation and irrigation canals are among the common human alterations in landscapes and ecosystems. The North Crimean Canal (NCC) is the longest in Europe; its main branch is 403 km, and the total of all its branches exc...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,070 Views
11 Pages

Salinity-Dependent Species Richness of Bacillariophyta in Hypersaline Environments

  • Daria Balycheva,
  • Elena Anufriieva,
  • Raisa Lee,
  • Alexander Prazukin and
  • Nickolai Shadrin

16 June 2023

Hypersaline habitats are among the most polyextreme habitats on Earth, but they contain a rather large diatom species diversity. A review of the diatom species’ richness was made on three scales: 1. a separate lake in Crimea; 2. all hypersaline...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,170 Views
9 Pages

The Essential-Oil-Bearing Rose Collection Variability Study in Terms of Biochemical Parameters

  • Viktor Zolotilov,
  • Natalya Nevkrytaya,
  • Olga Zolotilova,
  • Sevilia Seitadzhieva,
  • Elena Myagkikh,
  • Vladimir Pashtetskiy and
  • Mikhail Karpukhin

20 February 2022

The primary task when breeding new varieties of essential-oil-bearing rose is to increase the essential oil content and quality. The purpose of the present research is to study the essential-oil-bearing rose collection variability in terms of the ess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,845 Views
12 Pages

Differentiating Soils from Arable and Fallow Land Using Spectrometry

  • Pavel Ukrainskiy,
  • Fedor Lisetskii and
  • Arseniy Poletaev

In this study, we analyse soil system responses—in particular, the colours of soils resulting from different types of land use (arable land and residential areas) caused by the construction of an ancient boundary rampart near a multilayer monument da...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,639 Views
18 Pages

Fusarium Species Causing Pepper Wilt in Russia: Molecular Identification and Pathogenicity

  • Irina Engalycheva,
  • Elena Kozar,
  • Svetlana Frolova,
  • Svetlana Vetrova,
  • Tatyana Tikhonova,
  • Elena Dzhos,
  • Myazar Engalychev,
  • Vera Chizhik,
  • Viktor Martynov and
  • Yulia Kostanchuk
  • + 3 authors

Fusarium wilt pathogens represent an ongoing threat to pepper production worldwide. This is the first report providing data on the molecular identification of Fusarium fungi that cause wilt in pepper in the southern regions of Russia. Monitoring of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,080 Views
17 Pages

14 September 2024

The autochthonous grape varieties of the Don Valley, situated in southern Russia, constitute a distinctive element of regional cultural heritage. These varieties have been adapted over centuries to the region’s specific local climatic and soil...

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4 Citations
4,636 Views
19 Pages

7 July 2023

The key role of benthic diatoms in coastal ecosystems highlights the relevance of studying their biodiversity and developing integrated biodiversity conservation measures. Benthic diatom richness in the northern part of the Black Sea was estimated ba...

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