Grigorii A. Isachenko

Teaching courses

  • Landscape science
  • Physical geography of Russia
  • Geographical and ecological mapping
  • Landscape dynamics and landscape planning

Position

Associated professor, Department of Physical Geography & Landscape Design

E-mail: g.isachenko@spbu.ru

Phone: (812) 323-39-13

Education, scientific degrees and titles

  • 1982, geography, Leningrad State University, department of physical geography
  • 1988, candidate of geographical sciences (Ph.D),  topic of thesis: “Spatial-temporal Integration of Inner-annual States of Elementary Geosystems”

Research IDs


Research interests

Landscape science, long-term landscape dynamics; human impact on landscape, landscape and landscape-ecological mapping, historical geography of the European Russia, GIS, landscape planning, landscape studies on nature protected areas


Key publications

  1. Isachenko, G.A. & A.I. Reznikov, 1996. Taiga of the European Russia North-West: Landscape dynamics. St.Petersburg, Russian Geogr. Society. 166 pp. [Russian with English abstract].
  2. Isachenko, G.A., 1998. «A Window to Europe»: the History and Landscape.  St.Petersburg:  St. Petersburg University Press. 476 pp. [Russian with English abstract].
  3. Isachenko, G.A., 1998. The Methods of field study of landscape and the Landscape-ecological Mapping. Course of lectures. St. Petersburg:  St. Petersburg University Press. 111 pp. [Russian].
  4. Isachenko G.A. & A. I. Reznilkov, 2011. Natural landscape inside metropolis: example of Saint-Petersburg . In: Landscapes, Identities and Development. Chapter 17 (pp. 257-274).  Ashgate, Farnham, UK.
  5. Atlas of Nature Protected Areas of Saint-Petersburg. St.Petersburg, 2013, 2016. [Russian, coauthor].
  6. Isachenko, G.A., 2020. Structure and Long-Term Dynamics of Landscape as a Reflection of the Natural Processes and History of Nature Use: The Example of the Northwest of European Russia. In: A. V. Khoroshev, K. N. Dyakonov (eds.), Landscape Patterns in a Range of Spatio-Temporal Scales, Landscape Series 26, Springer Nature Switzerland AG  P. 259-271. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31185-8_17

Research and development projects

  • The desolation of  landscapes of the European Russia in XX century as a natural and social phenomenon  (granted by Russian Foundation for basic research, 2000-2002).
  • The history of land use of ethnic groups in Karelia and development of cultural landscape of the region (granted by Russian Foundation for Humanities, 2001-2003)
  • The landscapes of developed peat-bogs: classification, dynamics and scenarios of use (granted by Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, 2003-2004)
  • The diagnostics of long-term natural and anthropogenic changes of European Russia taiga on the basis of the landscape dynamics conception (granted by RFBR, 2005-2007)
  • Transformation of landscapes due to the mass recreation at the end of the 20th - beginning of the 21th centuries (granted by RFBR, 2008-2010)
  • The influence of long-term drainage melioration on taiga landscapes of the European Russia (granted by RFBR, 2012-2014)
  • Different-scale spatial-temporal interpretation of the data of stationary landscape investigations in southern taiga of the European Russia (granted by RFBR, 2015-2017)
  • Dynamics of zonal boreal landscapes of the west of European Russia under the influence of climate changes over the past decades (granted by Russian Foundation for basic research, 2019-2021)

Awards and honors

  • 1999, Prize of the Government of St.-Petersburg for the outstanding scientific results


Other professional activities

  • Executive Secretary of the editorial boards of the scientific journals "Izvestiya Russkogo geograficheskogo obshestva" and "Biosphere”
  • Member of the Central subject-methodical Commission of the all-Russian school Olympiad in geography
  • Member of the subject-methodical Commission of the city school Olympiad (Saint Petersburg) in geography
  • Member of the Scientific and technical Council for the development of the system of specially protected natural territories and the conservation of biological diversity under the Committee for nature management, environmental protection and environmental safety of Saint Petersburg

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