The Russian coal sector today faces challenges in the form of global decarbonization, sanctions, and difficulties in retaining market access and competitiveness. This new market environment warrants an examination of what lessons can be drawn from the past tribulations of one of Russia’s most iconic and strategically important industries. This book analyzes the Russian coal industry developments in historical and political contexts, including those of energy transition. The key tenets of contemporary dialogue between Russia and those who advocate for a speedy energy transition to phase out coal are presented. The book addresses the question of the coal industry as a sacrifice for the sake of Russia’s rapprochement with the West. The contribution of this book, therefore, is filling the gap between two large research inquiries – climate change mitigation and energy transition on the one hand, and the existing large coal industry of a given country on the other.

This book addresses the problems of Geocosmos and provides a snapshot of the current research in a broad area of Earth Sciences carried out in Russia and elsewhere. The themes covered include solar physics, physics of magnetosphere, ionosphere and atmosphere, solar-terrestrial coupling links, seismology, geoelectricity, paleomagnetism and rock magnetism, as well as cross-disciplinary studies. The proceedings are carefully edited, providing a panoramic outlook of a broad area of Earth Sciences. The readership includes colleague researchers, students and early career scientists. The proceedings will help the readers to look at their research fields from various points of view. Problems of Geocosmos conferences are held by Earth Physics Department, St. Petersburg University bi-annually since 1994. It is the largest forum of this kind in Russia/former Soviet Union attracting up to 200 researchers in Earth and magnetospheric physics.

This book addresses the problems of Geocosmos and provides a snapshot of the current research in a broad area of Earth Sciences carried out in Russia and elsewhere. The themes covered include solar physics, physics of magnetosphere, ionosphere and atmosphere, solar-terrestrial coupling links, seismology, geoelectricity, paleomagnetism and rock magnetism, as well as cross-disciplinary studies. The proceedings are carefully edited, providing a panoramic outlook of a broad area of Earth Sciences. The readership includes colleague researchers, students and early career scientists. The proceedings will help the readers to look at their research fields from various points of view. Problems of Geocosmos conferences are held by Earth Physics Department, St. Petersburg University bi-annually since 1994. It is the largest forum of this kind in Russia/former Soviet Union attracting up to 200 researchers in Earth and magnetospheric physics.

Kniga posvyashchena probleme izucheniya i sokhraneniya bioraznoobraziya rasteniy, odnim iz putey resheniya kotoroy yavlyaetsya vvedenie khozyaystvenno-poleznykh vidov v kul'turu. Opredelennyy interes v etom plane predstavlyayut kolokol'chiki, tak kak mnogie iz nikh vysoko dekorativny, original'ny, otlichayutsya prodolzhitel'nym periodom tsveteniya i dostatochno legko prisposablivayutsya k novym usloviyam proizrastaniya. V rabote predstavleny rezul'taty izucheniya sezonnogo ritma razvitiya, ontogeneza, zhiznennykh form, reproduktivnoy biologii 15 vidov roda Campanula L. na baze Botanicheskogo sada-instituta Ufimskogo nauchnogo tsentra RAN (Rossiya, Bashkirskoe Predural'e). Dana otsenka uspeshnosti introduktsii i perspektivnosti vidov po kompleksu khozyaystvenno-tsennykh i dekorativnykh priznakov, predlozhena agrotekhnika vyrashchivaniya. Otmecheno polozhitel'noe vliyanie peremennykh temperatur i preparata GUMI-20 na vskhozhest' i energiyu prorastaniya semyan kolokol'chikov. Dlya botanikov, introduktorov, selektsionerov, studentov VUZov biologicheskikh spetsial'nostey, rabotnikov ozelenitel'nykh organizatsiy i sel'skogo khozyaystva.