Alexey V. Rusakov

Teaching courses

Undergraduate:

  • Soil in the real estate cadastre (in English)
  • Soil and landscape degradation
  • Soil and environmental surveys
  • Summer practice in soil mapping

Master:

  • Soil evolution
  • Problems of world soil appraisal
  • Regulatory documents in the field of use and assessment of soils
  • Cadastral valuation of agricultural and other land
  • Price of soils and land
  • Modern problems of Paleopedology
  • Assessment of land resources and land cadastre
  • Assessment of the cost of soils taking into account their environmental functions;
  • Cadastral valuation of the lands of the forest fund of Russia
  • Assessment of degraded soils
  • Paleosols of the Periglacial Zone of the Upper Pleistocene (in English)
  • Paleopedology, master’s program “Paleogeography of the Quaternary period”

Position

Professor, Head of Department of Soil Science & Soil Ecology

E-mail: a.rusakov@spbu.ru

Phone: (812) 321-33-62

Education, scientific degrees and titles

  • 1985, soil scientist-agrochemist, A.A. Zhdanov Leningrad State University, Dept. Soil Science and Geography of Soils, Biological and Soil Science faculty
  • 1993, candidate of biological sciences, “Regularities in the formation of soil cover in the center of the Yaroslavl Volga Region”
  • 2012, Ph.D. “The formation of lake-glacial deposits and soils in the periglacial zone of the center of the Russian Plain in the Late Neopleistocene and Holocene”

Research IDs


Research interests

Genesis, geography and evolution of soils and soil cover of the glacial and periglacial zones of the Russian Plain and Western Siberia in the late Pleistocene and Holocene; paleosols as carriers of soil memory; reconstruction of the paleogeographic setting of landscapes and the dynamics of the natural environment in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene on the Russian Plain, archaeological soil science, geoarchaeology


Key publications

  1. Ekaterina Doronicheva, Liubov Golovanova, Vladimir Doronichev, Andrey Nedomolkin, Tamara Tregub, Maksim Volkov, Aleksey Rusakov, Anastasiya Korzinova, Aleksandr Muriy. The MIS 4 environmental stress impact on hominin occupation in the northwestern Caucasus: New evidence from the Hadjoh 2 site. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 47 (2023) 103781. DOI: org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103781
  2. Pavel Kust, Alexander Makeev, Sofia Lessovaia, Evgeniy Milanovsky, Alexey Rusakov, Konstantin Abrosimov, Vladimir Belyaev, Pavel Ryazantsev. Polygenetic features in Retisols, formed in Moscow (Late Saalian) glacial till. Catena 214 (2022) 106245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2022.106245
  3. E.A. Butuzova, R.N. Kurbanov, A. Taratunina, A.O. Makeev, A.V. Rusakov, M.P. Lebedeva A.S. Murray, T.A. Yanina. Shedding light on the timing of the largest Late Quaternary transgression of the Caspian Sea. Quaternary Geochronology DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2022.101378
  4. R.N. Kurbanov, J.-P. Buylaert, T. Stevens, N.A. Taratunina, V.R. Belyaev, A.O. Makeev, M.P. Lebedeva, A.V. Rusakov, D. Solodovnikov, C. K¨oltringer, V.V. Rogov, I.D. Streletskaya, A.S. Murray, T.A. Yanina. A detailed luminescence chronology of the Lower Volga loess-palaeosol sequence at Leninsk. Quaternary Geochronology 73 (2022) 101376 DOI: org/10.1016/j.quageo.2022.101376
  5. Makeev, A., Rusakov, A., Kurbanova, F., Khokhlova, O., Kust, P., Lebedeva, M., Milanovskiy, E., Egli, M., Denisova, E., Aseyeva, E., Rusakova, E., Mihailov, E. Soils at archaeological monuments of the Bronze Age – A key to the Holocene landscape dynamics in the broadleaf forest area of the Russian Plain (2021) Quaternary International, 590, pp. 26-47. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.09.015
  6. Rusakov, A., Fedorova, M., Makeev, A., Ludikova, A., Savelieva, L., Golyeva, A., Lebedeva, M., Sorokin, P., Rusakova, E. & Subetto, D. Pedocomplex buried under the Cabin of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg (1703): Genesis, properties and paleoenvironmental inferences. Quaternary International. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.07.001
  7. Lilit Pogosyan, Sergey Sedov, Andrey Yurtaev, Alexey Rusakov, Sofia Lessovaia, Vladimir Sheinkman, Alexander Pechkin. Polygenesis of loamy soils in North-West Siberia in the context of environmentalhistory of the Eurasian Artic region during the Late Quaternary. Quaternary International, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.01.013
  8. Alexander Makeev, Marina Lebedeva, Alexandra Kaganova, Alexey Rusakov, Pavel Kust, Tatiana Romanis, Tamara Yanina, Redzhep Kurbanov. Pedosedimentary environments in the Caspian Lowland during MIS5 (Srednaya Akhtuba reference section, Russia) Quaternary International, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.03.015
  9. Alexander Makeev, Alexey Rusakov, Olga Khokhlova , Pavel Kust, Daria Mikhaylova, Elena Aseyeva, Fatima Kurbanova, Elena Rusakova, Evgeniy Mihailov. Dataset on spatial variability of soil properties: Tokhmeyevo archaeological site of the Bronze Age, Chuvashia (southern fringe of the forest zone, the Russian Plain). Data in Brief (2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.106489
  10. Julia Simonova, Alexey Rusakov, Alexander Ryumin, Denis Mirin, Natalya Lemeshko, Aleksandr Popov, Elena Rusakovа. The response of salt-affected hydromorphic soils of the Nero Lake basin to the recent climate change within the Upper Volga Region, Russia // Soil & Tillage Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2020.104871
  11. Sheinkman, V., Sedov, S., Shumilovskikh, L. S., Bezrukova, E., Dobrynin, D., Timireva, S., Rusakov, A., Maksimov, F. 2020. A multiproxy record of sedimentation, pedogenesis, and environmental history in the north of West Siberia during the late Pleistocene based on the Belaya Gora section. Quaternary Research 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2020.74
  12. Alexander Makeev, Alexey Rusakov, Olga Khokhlova , Pavel Kust, Daria Mikhaylova, Elena Aseyeva , Fatima Kurbanova, Elena Rusakova, Evgeniy Mihailov. Dataset on spatial variability of soil properties: Tokhmeyevo archaeological site of the Bronze Age, Chuvashia (southern fringe of the forest zone, the Russian Plain). Data in Brief (2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.106489
  13. Julia Simonova, Alexey Rusakov, Alexander Ryumin, Denis Mirin, Natalya Lemeshko, Aleksandr Popov, Elena Rusakovа. The response of salt-affected hydromorphic soils of the Nero Lake basin to the recent climate change within the Upper Volga Region, Russia // Soil & Tillage Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2020.104871
  14. Rusakov A., Sedov S., Sheinkman A., Dobrynin D., Zinovyev E., Trofimova S., Maksimov F., Kuznetsov V., Korkka M., Levchenko S. Late Pleistocene paleosols in the extra-glacial regions of Northwestern Eurasia: Pedogenesis, post-pedogenic transformation, paleoenvironmental inferences, Quaternary International 501 (2019) 174-192, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.03.020
  15. 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 southernforest-steppe area of the East European Plain., Quaternary International., 502. P. 197-217., 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.05.016
  16. Rusakov A., Sedov S., Sheinkman A., Dobrynin D., Zinovyev E., Trofimova S., Maksimov F., Kuznetsov V., Korkka M., Levchenko S. Late Pleistocene paleosols in the extra-glacial regions of Northwestern Eurasia: Pedogenesis, post-pedogenic transformation, paleoenvironmental inferences, Quaternary International 501 (2019) 174-192, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.03.020
  17. Lebedeva M., Makeev A., Rusakov A., Romanis T., Yanina T., Kurbanov R., Kust P., and Varlamov E. Landscape Dynamics in the Caspian Lowlands Since the Last Deglaciation Reconstructed From the Pedosedimentary Sequence of Srednaya Akhtuba, Southern Russia. Geosciences 2018, 8, 492; DOI: org/10.3390/geosciences8120492
  18. 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 502 (2019), pp. 197–217, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.05.016
  19. Alexey Rusakov, Petr Sorokin, Alexandra Golyeva, Larisa Savelieva, Elena Rusakova and Sergey Safronov. Soils of a medieval burial mound as a paleoenvironmental archive (Leningrad region, Northwest Russia) // Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland, Vol. 90, 2018, pp 315–325, https://doi.org/10.17741/bgsf/90.2.013
  20. Makeev A., Aseyeva E., Rusakov A., Sorokina K., Puzanova T., Khokhlova O., Kust P., Kurbanova F., Chernov T., Kutovaya O., Lebedeva M., Mihailov E. The environment of the Early Iron Age at the southern fringe of the forest zone of the Russian Plain, Quaternary International (2018), http://doi.org./10/1016/j.quaint.2018.04.002
  21. Rusakov A., Sedov S., Sheinkman A., Dobrynin D., Zinovyev E., Trofimova S., Maksimov F., Kuznetsov V., Korkka M., Levchenko S. Late Pleistocene paleosols in the extra-glacial regions of Northwestern Eurasia: Pedogenesis, post-pedogenic transformation, paleoenvironmental inferences, Quaternary International (2018), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.03.020
  22. 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 вн
  23. Kalinina O., Chertov O., Frolov P., Goryachkin S., Kuner P., Küper J., Kurganova I., Lopes de Gerenyu V., Lyuri D., Rusakov A., Kuzyakov Y., Giani L. Alteration process during the post-agricultural restoration of Luvisols of the temperate broad-leaved forest in Russia // Catena. 2018 V. 171.pp. 602–612, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2018.08.004
  24. Rusakov A.V., Nikonov A.A., Savelieva L.A., Simakova A.N., Maksimov F.E., Kuznetsov V.Yu., Korkka M.A., Savenko V.B., Starikova A.A. Chronostratigraphy of the Cheremoshnik key section (Yaroslavl Volga Region) based on new geochronological, palynological, and paleosol data // Doklady Earth Sciences. 2017. Vol. 472. Part 2, pp. 244–247
  25. S. Sedov, A. Rusakov, V. Sheinkman, M. Korkka. MIS3 paleosols in the center-north of Eastern Europe and Western Siberia: Reductomorphic pedogenesis conditioned by permafrost? // Catena. 2016. V.146. pp. 38–47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2016.03.022
  26. Rusakov A., Nikonov A., Savelieva L., Simakova A., Sedov S., Maksimov S., Kuznetsov V., Savenko S., Starikova S., Korkka M., Titova D. Landscape evolution in the periglacial zone of Eastern Europe since MIS5: Proxies from paleosols and sediments of the Cheremoshnik key site (Upper Volga, Russia) // Quaternary International. V. 365. 2015. pp. 26–41.
  27. Rusakov A., Nikonov A., Savelieva L., Simakova A., Sedov S., Maksimov S., Kuznetsov V., Savenko S., Starikova S., Korkka M., Titova D. Landscape evolution in the periglacial zone of Eastern Europe since MIS5: Proxies from paleosols and sediments of the Cheremoshnik key site (Upper Volga, Russia) // Quaternary International. V. 365. 2015. pp. 26–41.
  28. Rusakov A.V., Nikonov A.A., Savelyeva L.A., Pinakhina D.V. Buried Late Holocene Paleosols of the Nienshants Cultural–Historical Monument in St. Petersburg // Eurasian Soil Science. 2013. V. 46, No. 1, pp. 15–27. 

Awards and honorary titles

Prize from the Government of St. Petersburg for outstanding results in the field of science and technology, higher professional education. In the category “Geography, atmospheric and hydrosphere sciences” in 2023, the M.I. Budyko Prize was awarded for a series of scientific works devoted to the study of the role of paleosols of the zonal series of the East European and West Siberian Plains in the reconstruction of landscape-bioclimatic conditions on the time slice of the late Pleistocene - Holocene (last macrocycle) and the spatiotemporal dynamics of the natural environment of the East European Plain based on geoarchaeological archives.



Other professional activities

  • Member of the Society of Soil Scientists named after V.V. Dokuchaeva
  • Member of the Council for the defense of dissertations for the scientific degree of Candidate of Sciences, for the scientific degree of Doctor of Sciences D 212.199.26 on the basis of the Russian State Pedagogical University named after. A.I. Herzen in the specialties Economic, social, political and recreational geography (geographical sciences); Geomorphology and evolutionary geography (geographical sciences); Geoecology (Earth sciences) (geographical sciences)
  • Member of the Dissertation Council of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov for the scientific degree of Candidate of Sciences, for the scientific degree of Doctor of Science MSU.015.3 in the specialties of Soil Science and Ecology
  • Repeated member and chairman of the Council of St. Petersburg State University for the degree of Candidate of Sciences (defense according to the rules of St. Petersburg State University) in the specialty Soil Science; Geoecology; Physical geography and biogeography, soil geography and landscape geochemistry; Geochemistry, geochemical methods of mineral exploration

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