… Abstract: Two geographers report on the current challenges facing the inhabitants of the
Caucasus mountains on the borders of Russia and its southern neighbors, Georgia and …

Many rural mountain areas across the world are facing depopulation due to outmigration and
negative natural population growth. This study examines depopulation in the mountains of …

… correction for large-area mapping, and we selected the Caucasus Mountains as our
study area. The Caucasus Mountains with their high elevation range and complex land-cover …

… in a study area located in the Caucasus Mountains, Azerbaijan. Terrain attributes and spectral
… by similar environmental conditions in the Caucasus Mountains. However, with respect to …

… We examined the role of two highly unpalatable plants, Cirsiumobvalatum and Veratrum
lobelianum, in subalpine meadow plant communities of the central Caucasus Mountains in the …

Beginning with a fabled narrative poem by Aleksandr Pushkin from 1822 entitled “Prisoner
of the Caucasus,” this article is an exploration of how the idiom of kidnapping in the ritual …

Changes in the map area of 498 glaciers located on the Main Caucasus ridge (MCR) and on
Mt. Elbrus in the Greater Caucasus Mountains (Russia and Georgia) were assessed using …

Glaciers occupy an area of ~1600km2 in the Caucasus Mountains. There is widespread
evidence of retreat since the Little Ice Age, but an up-to-date regional assessment of glacier …

… in the Greater Caucasus mountains of the southwestern … compensation of the Greater
Caucasus mountains, we analyze … central parts of the Greater Caucasus mountains and by a plate …

In September 2002, a catastrophic geomorphic event occurred in the Caucasus Mountains,
southern Russia, in which almost the entire mass of Kolka Glacier detached from its bed, …