Detection of an invasive species Arion vulgaris Moquin-Tandon, 1855 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Arionidae) in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania

Arion vulgaris Moquin-Tandon is a serious agricultural pest. Its rapid spread started in the middle of the twentieth century. Currently, its range covers almost all of Western Europe and it is rapidly expanding to the east. A. vulgaris has been recorded in the Baltics, Ukraine, and central Russia; it is also found in the Faroe Islands. In 2009, it was discovered in Russia in the commercial greenhouses of Tver. Now it has spread in the suburbs and Moscow. On the 6th of August 2019, a population of this species was found in the arboretum of Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia which is the first record of A. vulgaris in the Caucasus. Description of the slug’s genitalia is given.

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Living standards in North Ossetia-Alania through the prism of economic processes

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series ◽

10.2478/bog-2020-0033 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 50 (50) ◽

pp. 73-82

Author(s):

Vitaly Dobronosov ◽

Delyara Tebieva ◽

Lyubov’ Kebalova

Keyword(s):

Communication Networks ◽

Ecological Condition ◽

Living Standards ◽

Soviet Period ◽

Living Standard ◽

Working Age ◽

Level Of Economic Development ◽

The Republic ◽

Almost All ◽

North Ossetia

AbstractThe paper reflects the dynamics of changes in standard of living in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania during the post-Soviet period.BackgroundThe more than twenty years that have passed since perestroika failed to lead to the expected positive shifts in economy in RNO-Alania. In ratings of regions by population living standards, the republic was consistently among the last places.AimTo show the discrepancy between the modern level of economic development and the standard of life in the RNO-Alania.MethodThe work uses comparative analysis of indicators of living standard and indicators reflecting the structural and dynamic characteristics of economic processes.ResultsOfficial statistics show growth in almost all socio-economic indicators in RNO-Alania. This apparent increase in living standards does not correspond to the low ranking of RNO-Alania, which is consistently in the bottom ten of the rating of Russian regions. The analysis of other indicators determining the population's quality of life, such as: the ecological condition of the territory, the developmental level of health and education institutions, life expectancy, and availability of transport, information and communication networks all correlated weakly with the real socio-economic situation in the region. The study of the republic's districts showed a high unemployment rate due to the lack of industrial and agricultural production, the underdevelopment of small and medium-sized businesses, and low wages. There is an outflow of working-age population to the city of Vladikavkaz and from the districts to outside the republic.ConclusionsThe deficit in the republic's budget persisted during the research period, despite the apparent growth in the gross product and revenue part of the budget, but the volume of expenditures is growing at a faster rate. The main reason for this is the sharp decline in industrial production, and the influence of loss-making enterprises that do not generate income in the budget. Living standards are rising only thanks to grants from the federal centre.RecommendationIn order to remove the republic from its depressed state it is necessary to increase the fixed capital, to control the process of effective use of the available production capacities, and to invest in a recreational industry that uses natural resources and does not require significant investment.

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Click beetles of the genus Melanotus Eschscholtz, 1829 (Coleoptera, Elateridae) in the collection of the Institute of Zoology of the Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology of Armenia

South of Russia ecology development ◽

10.18470/1992-1098-2020-4-145-151 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 145-151

Author(s):

M. A. Marjanyan ◽

A. A. Avetisyan

Keyword(s):

First Record ◽

Current Data ◽

National Academy Of Sciences ◽

Scientific Center ◽

Click Beetles ◽

The Caucasus ◽

The Republic ◽

Academy Of Sciences ◽

First Time ◽

Species Being

Aim. The study of the genus Melanotus from the collection of the Institute of Zoology of the Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia taking into account new taxonomic and chorological data.Material and Methods. Scientific material was identified after desktop processing and preparation of genitalia according to current data on the genus Melanotus.Results and Conclusion. We determined 21 species of the genus Melanotus in the collection from Europe, the Caucasus and Middle Asia, 12 species being recorded from the territory of Armenia. The collection of the genus Мelanotus in the Institute of Zoology includes species endemic to Armenia (M. gedeoni Mardjanyan, 2015, M. platiai Mardjanyan, 2015, M. khnzoriani Mardjanyan, 2015), to Tajikistan (M. fragilloides Dolin, 1988, M. vidualis Gurjeva, 1988) and to Iran (M. dichroides Platia & Gudenzi, 1999, M. richterae Mardjanyan, 2015). Three species, M. castanipes Paykull, 1800, M. fulvus Reitter, 1891 and M. sladkovi Dolin & Atamuradov, 1986 are recorded for the first time for Armenia. M. rustamovi Dolin & Atamuradov, 1987 is the first record for Tajikistan and M. persimilis Dolin & Latifi, 1988 for Turkmenistan.

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Naib Baysunghur of Benoy: modern myths and historical facts

Minbar Islamic Studies ◽

10.31162/2618-9569-2019-12-2-373-387 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 373-387

Author(s):

P. I. Takhnaeva

Keyword(s):

State Archive ◽

Central State ◽

The Caucasus ◽

Political Situation ◽

Historical Archive ◽

Russian State ◽

Ideological Background ◽

Kaluga Region ◽

The Republic ◽

North Ossetia

The article deals with one of the most important and at the same time completely events in the biography of Baysungur of Benoy (1794–1861), the Chechen Naib during the Caucasian War of the 19th cent., namely his stay at Ghunib (August 1859) and his personal presence at the capture of Imam Shamil. This episode has recently attracted much attention and became a subject of various speculations both with a scholarly and ideological background. The author based her research on a wide array of hitherto unknown as well as already published documents. The latter, however, have not received enough attention. The unpublished sources originate from the Russian State Military Historical Archive (Moscow), the State Archive of the Kaluga Region, the Central State Archive of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, etc. This cornucopea of rich historical data allows her to reconstruct in detail the very last period of the Imam Shamil State and to successfully put it within the framework of the and political situation in the Caucasus in 1859. A detailed analysis of numerous local sources, which are written in Arabic and directly originate from the Imam Shamil environment as well as the papers from the headquarters of the Russian Imperial Caucasian Army leads to a convincing conclusion regarding the whereabouts of Naib Baysungur in August 1859. It proves that at that time he was definitively away from Ghunib.

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GLAСIAL MUDFLOW FROM THE UNIQUE GLACIER OF THE CAUCASUS

Вестник Владикавказского научного центра ◽

10.23671/vnc.2019.1.27286 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Р.А. Тавасиев

Keyword(s):

Mineral Water ◽

Water Source ◽

Morphological Type ◽

The Caucasus ◽

Melt Water ◽

Storage Pond ◽

Hot Weather ◽

The Republic ◽

North Ossetia

К известному в Республике Северная Осетия-Алания источнику ми- неральной воды Хилак ведет грунтовая автодорога. Летом в безоблачную жаркую погоду в одном и том же месте ее смывает селевой поток. Этот селевой поток вызывает подпруду на реке и образование озера. При обследовании очага зарожде- ния селя был выявлен ранее неизвестный ледник нового морфологического типа – забронированный сложный кулуарово-долинный ледник. Его талые воды и явля- ются причиной схода селевого потока. There is a soil road that runs to the well-known in the Republic North Ossetia- Alania mineral water source Hilak mineral. In summer in cloudless hot weather at the same place, it is washed away by a mud stream. This mud stream causes a storage pond on the river and the formation of a lake. In inspecting the mudfl ow origination site previously unknown glacier of a new morphological type – armored complex valley-growing glacier was revealed. Its melt water is the very reason of a mudfl ows descent.

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Lemanea fucina Bory, 1808 (Lemaneaceae, Rhodophyta), a rare species with a variable morphology: First record in the Republic of Montenegro

Archives of Biological Sciences ◽

10.2298/abs1102511s ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 63 (2) ◽

pp. 511-515 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Snezana Simic ◽

Nevena Djordjevic

Keyword(s):

Rare Species ◽

Western Europe ◽

Morphological Characteristics ◽

First Record ◽

Southeast Europe ◽

New Finding ◽

The Republic ◽

Variable Morphology ◽

First Time

The genus Lemanea and a species belonging to this genus, Lemanea fucina Bory 1808, are reported for the first time in the Republic of Montenegro (southeast Europe, in the river Tara, at one locality - ?Splaviste? (N-43? 07? 721?, E 019? 18 ?609?). This is a new finding, and also the southernmost point of occurrence of this species in Europe. The species is characteristic mostly for rivers of the countries of northern and western Europe. The variable morphological characteristics of this species are described and illustrated in this work.

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Contact Influences on Ossetic

The Oxford Handbook of Language Contact ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199945092.013.38 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 466-493

Author(s):

Oleg Belyaev

Keyword(s):

Language Contact ◽

Mountain Range ◽

North Caucasus ◽

The Caucasus ◽

South Ossetia ◽

The North ◽

Turkic Languages ◽

Considerable Impact ◽

The Republic ◽

North Ossetia

Ossetic is an Iranian language spoken by around half a million people (Census 2002) mostly in the North Caucasus, in the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, part of Russia, and in the adjacent region of South Ossetia beyond the Caucasian mountain range. Ossetic is descended from a language spoken by a subgroup of the Alans, a tribe of Sarmatian origin, which has found refuge in the highlands of the Caucasus following the invasions of the Mongols and Tamerlane. Centuries-long contact with neighboring peoples speaking Northwest Caucasian, Northeast Caucasian, South Caucasian, and Turkic languages has made a considerable impact on Ossetic phonology, grammar, and lexicon. Ossetic is a textbook example of an Indo-European language in a foreign linguistic environment, and therefore its data are highly important for the typology of language contact.

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All-Ukrainian Ophthalmological Congress

Kazan medical journal ◽

10.17816/kazmj50291 ◽

1930 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 94-97

Author(s):

A. B. Kollenko

Keyword(s):

Small Scale ◽

The Caucasus ◽

The Press ◽

The Republic ◽

Almost All ◽

Far Eastern

Dr. A. B Kolenko (Kazan).Repeated speeches at conferences, congresses, in the press brought to life the decision of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR on the regulation of the congresses taking place in the Republic. The abundance of reports, of which many are not even heard, the crumpledness of the debates, the overload of the meetings do not allow those who have gathered to take much from the congress. One of the adjustments introduced by life is the organization of small-scale congresses district, territorial, regional, at which local issues are worked out and thus material for the All-Union congresses is screened out. Such a regional congress was the All-Ukrainian congress of ophthalmologists, which took place in Kharkov on December 27-31, 929. It didn't quite live up to its name. Although out of 320 delegates there were 257 (80.8%) from Ukraine, other places of the Union were represented so fully (Far-Eastern Territory, Tatrespublika, BSSR, Uzbekistan, the Caucasus and many others) that the Congress can be considered almost All-Union.

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The Medieval Population of Mountainous Ingushetia According to Odontological Data

Вестник антропологии (Herald of Anthropology) ◽

10.33876/2311-0546/2019-48-4/197-209 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 178-196

Author(s):

Natalya A. Lejbova ◽

Umalat B. Gadiev

Keyword(s):

Morphological Traits ◽

Dental Anthropology ◽

Deep Roots ◽

The Caucasus ◽

New Material ◽

The Republic ◽

The Village ◽

Medieval Population

Although population of the Caucasus has been studied in a rather detailed way, there are peoples whose anthropological portrait is still incomplete. Among them are the Ingush, one of the oldest autochthonous peoples of the Caucasus. This work presents new material on the dental anthropology of medieval Ingush, collected in 2017 during expeditions to the Jairakh and Sunzhen districts of the Republic of Ingushetia. In the Jairakh district, the investigations were carried out in the crypt complexes of the 15th–18th centuries – Targim, Agikal, Tsori, Salgi, and in Sunzhen region - in crypts near the village of Muzgan. The craniological series of medieval Ingush studied according to the dental anthropology program can be described as belonging to the western range of odontological complexes. Unlike most modern Caucasian groups, it does not belong to gracile forms, but rather to a maturized odontological variant, which has deep roots in the Caucasus. The results once again demonstrate a certain conservatism and stability of the dental system, which preserves morphological traits of ancestral groups longer than other anthropological systems.

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