Vol. IX, No. 1 (January–March 2005)

FULL TEXT IN RUSSIAN ONLY

CONTENTS

PROBLEMS OF EARTH CRYOLOGY

• Melnikov V.P. Actuality of resource approach in cryology ( welcoming speech at the opening of the conference „Cryosphere of oil-and-gas bearing provinces”, Tyumen, 2004)

• Brown J. The International Permafrost Association: past, present and future

• Fotiev S.M. Cryochrons and thermochrons of Southern Siberia during the last 5 million years (paleogeocryological interpretation of the results of Baikal Lake bottom deposit researches)

REGIONAL PROBLEMS OF EARTH CRYOLOGY

• Baulin V.V., Ivanova N.V., Rivkin F.M., Cherniadiev V.P., Shamanova I.I. Coastal cryolithozone of the Northwest Yamal: problems of development

ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF EARTH CRYOLOGY

• Gubin S.V. The change of structural organization of the material from upper parts of cryosol profiles polluted with mineral oil

• Efremov V.N., Dedyukina N.D. Searching and countouring of hydrocarbon pollution areas of the frozen grounds

• Feklistov V.N., Shreiber I.R. Elimination of oil pollution by foam sorbents: technological and ecological aspects

ICE AND FROZEN SOIL PROPERTIES

• Hymenkov A.N., Merzlyakov V.P. Assessment of change in salt frozen ground properties under the regional climate warming

CRYOGENIC PROCESSES AND PHENOMENA

• Kizyakov A.I. The dynamics of thermodenudation processes at the Yugorsky Peninsula coast

GAS HYDRATES FORMATION

• Yakushev V.S., Perlova E.V., Makhonina N.A. Metastable (relic) gas hydrates: spreading, resources, prospects of development.

• Chuvilin E.M., Kozlova E.V. Research of formation of frozen gas hydrate-saturated sediment

RELIABILITY OF BASEMENTS AND STRUCTURES IN CRYOLITHOZONE

• Khrenov N.N. Problems of reliability control of gas pipelines in cryolithozone of West Siberia

ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA AND CLIMATE

• Pavlov A.V., Ananjeva (Malkova) G.V. Contemporary climate and permafrost changes in oil-gas areas of the Russian North