Teaching courses

Undergraduate

• Biogeochemistry
• Bio-organic agriculture
• Soil Reclamation and remediation
• Organic matter of soils and methods of its research
• Biological methods of soil study

Master

• Planning of experiment in soil research
• Humus and soil fertility
• Chemistry of organic matter of soils
• Bioconversion of organic waste
• Biogeocenotic significance of soils
• Soil and land resources of Russia

Position

Education, scientific degrees and titles

• 1978, soil science and agrochemistry, Leningrad State University, soil science and soil geography
• 1989, Ph.D. (agricultural science) “Influence of agricultural using on humus of drained soddy podzolic soils“
• 2006, Sc.D. (agricultural science) “Soil organic matter of agro-ecosystem and its role in functioning of plant-soil system“
• 2007, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Science (Department of Physic-Chemical Biology and Innovations)
• 2008, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Science (Department of Physic-Chemical Biology and Innovations)
• 2011, Full Professor (Professor as scientific title)

Research IDs

• Pure
• Scopus ID

Research interests

Key publications

1. Popov A. I., Rusakov A. V. Chemodestruction Fractionation of Soil Organic Matter // Eurasian Soil Science. 2016. Vol. 49. No 6. P. 606–612.
2. Rusakov A., Makeev A., Khokhlova O., Kust P., Lebedeva M., Chernov T., Golyeva A., Popov A., Kurbanova F., Puzanova T. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction based on soils buried under Scythian fortification in the southern forest-steppe area of the East European Plain // Quaternary International. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.05.016
3. Yakimenko O. S., Terekhova V. A., Pukalchik M. A., Gorlenko M. V., Popov A. I. Comparison of Two Integrated Biotic Indices in Assessing the Effects of Humic Products in a Model Experiment // Eurasian Soil Science. 2019. V. 52, Is. 7. P. 736–746. doi.org/10.1134/S1064229319070159.
4. Rusakov A., Popov A., Pozdnyakova A. Reconstruction of Late Pleistocene sedimentation environment from data on catenary differentiation of soils and sediments along the northern slope of the Klin-Dmitrov Ridge (Russia) // IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science / Soil Physics. 2019. V. 368. 012042. P. 1–7. IOP Publishing doi:10.1088/1755-1315/368/1/012042.
5. Simonova J. V., Rusakov A. V., Popov A. I. Dynamics of soil salinization in the Nero Lake depression (Upper Volga) in connection with the latest climate change / The 5th Int. Conf. “Ecosystem dynamics in the Holocene” // IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 2020. V. 438. 012026. P. 1–10. IOP Publishing doi:10.1088/1755-1315/438/1/012026

The Head of Current Research Fundings

• 2016. Conducting a soil science forensic examination on the request of Lieutenant Colonel of justice of the state tax service of the Russian Federation for the city of Saint Petersburg L. I. Samoylenko from 30.11.2015 (entrance. SPBU # 01-122-63 from 29.01.2016).
• 2019. Conducting research work on the project "Coal terminal of the Shakhtersk seaport" for the limited liability company "Investment Construction Management "(LLC " ISM»)

Awards and honors

• 2015, the Honorary Silver Medal of V. I. Vernadsky for high scientific achievements and great contribution to the development of Russia, the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
• 2020, the Gold Medal “Best Wishes & Appreciation” of the Ministry of Scientific Research, Egypt

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