scholarly journals New data on David's myotis, Myotis davidii (Peters, 1869) (Mammalia, Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), in Siberia and the Urals

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Zhigalin
Keyword(s):  
Southern Urals ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
The Urals ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
Border Area ◽  
The North ◽  
Northern Border ◽  
Palearctic Region ◽  
Myotis Myotis

David's myotis, Myotisdavidii, is a vespertilionid bat inhabiting the wide spaces of the Palearctic region. Although previously registered in the north of Mongolia (50° N.L.) and the southern Urals (52° N.L.), data on the ecology of the species on the northern periphery of the range was missing. The northern border area of M.davidii in Siberia shifts by 350 km and the area increases by about 150,000 km2, in the Ural area by 150 km. Pups in the north of the range appear from the second half of June to July inclusive. Our data reveal that individuals from the Urals and the North Caucasus are genetically similar.

scholarly journals Стоянка среднего палеолита в пещере Иманай-1 на Южном Урале: предварительные итоги археологических исследований

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1271-1291
Author(s):  
Vyacheslav G. Kotov ◽  
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Mikhail M. Rumyantsev ◽  
Dmitry O. Gimranov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Southern Urals ◽  
Mountain Forest ◽  
Middle Paleolithic ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Ural Mountain ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
Cave Bear ◽  
The North ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Stone Industry

Introduction. Imanai-1 Cave is a new monument of the Middle Paleolithic in the Southern Urals. It was discovered by the authors in 2009 and is located in the west of the Ural mountain system, in the interfluve of the Belaya and Nugush Rivers, on the border of the mountain-forest and steppe zones. Goals. The paper aims to introduce preliminary results of archaeological investigations into scientific discourse. Results. The cave is of a tunnel type, its 70 m long passage ending with a far hall which contained bones of a small cave bear and a cave lion. The monument is multi-layered. The first cultural horizon contained 399 items of stone and bone. Tools make up to 60 % of all stone products, while cores and scales are absent, therefore, primary and secondary processing was carried out outside the far hall. The stone industry is characterized by the use of shards and amorphous flint chips. The working areas were made out with monofacial and bifacial retouching, incisal cleavage. The tools are of the following types: 3 Mousterian bifacial points, 4 convergent side-scrapers with bifacial processing, butt knives, some with bifacial processing ― 6 items, carvers on fragments and amorphous chips ― 229 items (59 %), points ― 19 items (5 %), tools with a thorn ― 13 items (3 %), incisors ― 21 items (5 %). At the base of the first cultural horizon, a skull of a small cave bear with an artificial hole made with a stone spearhead was found. The industry of the site has numerous analogies at the Ilskaya-1 site in the North Caucasus and in the materials of the upper layer of the Kiik-Koba grotto in the Crimea, as well as at other sites of the Middle Paleolithic of the Tayacian tradition. Three uncalibrated dates show the interval from 26 to 42 thousand years. This indicates the finale of the Mousterian era.

scholarly journals The Riddle of the Scythian Gold “Cones”

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
В.И. Гуляев
Keyword(s):  
Southern Urals ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
The North ◽  
Vast Area

Статья посвящена одной загадочной категории драгоценных скифских предметов золотым конусам (колпачкам, ворворкам), которые встречаются в курганах V IV вв. до н. э. на огромной территории: от Южного Урала до Северного Кавказа. Вот уже более 140 лет археологи не могут решить вопрос о назначении данных вещей. Автор предлагает одну из версий, объясняющих реальную функцию золотых ворворок в скифской культуре. The paper explores a mysterious group of precious Scythian artifacts. These are gold cones (termed also as lids or rattlebells), which occur in the kurgans of the 5th 4th centuries BC in a vast area stretching from the Southern Urals to the North Caucasus. For over 140 years archaeologists have been unable to resolve the issue regarding the function of these artifacts. The author suggests one of the versions explaining the actual function of gold rattle bells in the Scythian culture.

scholarly journals Bridle Plaques with Zoomorphic and Anthropomorphic Images of the Nomads of the Southern Urals in the Scythian Time

2019 ◽  
pp. 57-73
Author(s):  
Vladimir Myshkin
Keyword(s):  
Southern Urals ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
The North ◽  
Culture Development

The article is devoted to characterizing bridle plaques with zoomorphic and anthropomorphic images, which were used by the nomads of the Southern Urals in the 6th – 4th centuries BC. The paper presents a summary of these horse ammunition items, which includes about 80 finds. The author proposes a typology of these subjects. Types of bridle plaques are distinguished by a combination of features that characterize the plot, composition and style of images. The items are represented by various types of plaques in the form of predatory and hoofed animals, birds, several species of animals or their parts, fish, and a rider on a horse. All the plaques are divided into four chronological groups in accordance with currently accepted dates of the monuments, where they were found: the late 6th – the early 5th century BC, the late 6th – the 5th century BC, the late 5th – the 4th century BC, the late 6th – the 4th century BC. Thus, nomads used plaques with zoomorphic images throughout the period under consideration. The distribution of types of plaques with zoomorphic images on chronological groups demonstrates both continuity in the nomads’ culture development throughout the 6th – 4th centuries BC and cultural transformations that occurred during this period. The transformations are reflected in changing nomenclature in the category of horse ammunition, style of zoomorphic images (including due to the appearance of plaques indicating links with the Don region, the North Caucasus, and the North Pontic region), and emergence of a tradition to use plaques with anthropomorphic images.

scholarly journals Productivity Of Various Varieties Of Spring Durum Wheat In The Conditions Of The Central Zone Of Orenburg Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 901 (1) ◽  
pp. 012052
Author(s):  
K A Kalzhanov ◽  
G F Yartsev ◽  
R K Baikasenov ◽  
T P Aysuvakova ◽  
B B Kartabayeva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spring Wheat ◽  
Central Zone ◽  
Southern Urals ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
The North ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Food Grain ◽  
Hard Spring Wheat

Abstract Spring wheat is one of the most important food grain crops. Hard spring wheat is used to produce cereals, pasta and vermicelli. The grain of this crop contains a lot of protein (14-16%soft, 15-18% hard) and gluten-28-40%. This crop is grown mainly in the following regions: the Volga region, the Southern Urals, Western and Eastern Siberia. Average yields are obtained here due to lack of moisture, but the grain contains a lot of protein and gluten. When growing it in the Non-Chernozem zone, higher yields are obtained, but the quantity and quality of gluten is usually lower. In those regions (the North Caucasus, the Central Asian Republic) where winter wheat yields higher yields, spring wheat is considered one of the insurance products in case of its re-sowing in case of poor wintering.

scholarly journals The results of evaluation of the collection of cocksfoot in the Central Chernozem zone

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 04007
Author(s):  
Natalia Malysheva ◽  
Elena Gubanova ◽  
Nadezhda Isaeva ◽  
Alexander Gubanov
Keyword(s):  
Southern Urals ◽  
Stress Factors ◽  
First Year ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
Forage Crops ◽  
Mountainous Regions ◽  
The North ◽  
First Year Of Life ◽  
Central Chernozem

Cocksfoot is one of the earliest, highly nutritious valuable forage crops, which is widely used in agricultural production. It is relevant in developing varieties adapted to the environmental stress factors that have productive longevity, increased seed and fodder productivity. The paper presents the results of wild cocksfoot accessions conducted on Ekaterininskaya RS in 2017-2019. No accessions of cocksfoot were identified that consistently exceeded the standard grade for all three years of study. Accessions collected in the North Caucasus and Tajikistan and introduced from the Mediterranean region performed well in the first year of life, but by the third year of the life, they significantly reduced all characteristics. The accessions of cocksfoot from the Central Region of the European part of the RF and from the mountainous regions of the Southern Urals are of the greatest interest for breeding in the Central Chernozem zone.

On Links between the Ancient Nomads in the Southern Foothills of the Urals and Central Asia

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-50
Author(s):  
Sergeï Gutsalov
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Southern Urals ◽  
The Urals ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
The West ◽  
The North ◽  
Eastern Half ◽  
Grave Goods

Abstract This article publishes interesting burials of ancient nomads dating from the end of the 3rd, 2nd or 1st centuries BC from the Dongulyuk II and Volodarka I tumuli necropoleis in the West of Kazakhstan. Materials from these funerary sites include some quite rare finds: phalerae, belt plates bearing depictions of confronting winged dragons, two-handled infantry swords used by warriors on foot and other objects relating to the life of nomads. The funerary rite – including such elements as burials in pits with ledges or in catacombs, the laying out of horses’ skulls on ledges, the arrangement of the deceased with their heads pointing to the north or south – indicates that the cultural links of the nomads from the southern foothills of the Urals at the end of the 1st millennium BC were orientated towards Central Asia. If it is borne in mind that many objects among the accompanying grave goods can also be associated with the eastern half of the Eurasian steppes, then it would seem highly likely that the nomads had originally come from northern China, moving west and migrating into eastern Europe including the southern Urals.

scholarly journals The sources of zircons in clastic rocks of the Riphean deposits of the Urals

2019 ◽  
Vol 488 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-419
Author(s):  
A. A. Krasnobaev ◽  
V. N. Puchkov ◽  
N. D. Sergeeva ◽  
S. V. Busharina
Keyword(s):  
Southern Urals ◽  
Detrital Zircons ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Urals ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
Clastic Rocks ◽  
Lower Riphean ◽  
Age Variations ◽  
Age Determinations

New age determinations of detrital zircons of sandstones augmented the possibilities of interpretation of their provenance. This interpretation is often restricted by a formal comparison of age-and-composition characteristics of detrital crystals with any very distant model objects. A different situation arises when the role of a source of a detritus is claimed by local objects. The analysis of SHRIMP and TIMS - datеs of zircons and U and Th concentrations in them, and also a comparison of histograms of primary zircons from Riphean volcanics and rocks of the Taratash complex on one hand and the detrital zircons from the sandstones of Vendian (Asha series) and Lower Riphean (Ai Formation) on the other, have shown that the age variations of sources and clastics are comparable in many aspects. It means that the age characteristics of primary zircons from the Riphean volcanics and rocks of the Taratash complex as sources of zircon clastics for the Riphean and Vendian sandstones in the Southern Urals are regulated by processes of resedimentation, though the influence of distant sources is not excluded.

scholarly journals METEORIC IRON IN PRODUCTION AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICE OF THE YAMNAYA CULTURE IN THE URALS REGION

2021 ◽  
pp. 190-206
Author(s):  
Н. Л. Моргунова ◽  
М. А. Кулькова ◽  
А. М. Кульков
Keyword(s):  
Isotope Analysis ◽  
Southern Urals ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
The Urals ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
Middle Volga Region ◽  
Radiocarbon Data ◽  
Middle Volga ◽  
New Research ◽  
Functional Purpose

Среди курганов ямной культуры Среднего Поволжья и Южного Приуралья особое место занимают монументальные сооружения с находками изделий из железа. Выделяются предметы как производственного, так и ритуального назначения. По данным радиоуглеродного анализа курганы датируются в пределах первой половины III тыс. до н. э. В 2019 г. авторами на современном оборудовании проведены новые исследования химического состава поверхности металлических предметов, изотопный анализ свинца, а также реставрация железных предметов. Дополнительные исследования позволили подтвердить метеоритное происхождение железа, уточнить форму и функциональное назначение изделий. Анализ погребального обряда и инвентаря из меди и метеоритного железа позволяет сделать вывод, что курганы были предназначены для «супер-лидеров». При жизни они могли выполнять управленческие, военные и сакрально-ритуальные функции. Наличие предметов из железа свидетельствует об обожествлении власти вождей и о распространенном представлении связи лидерства и небесных сил. Large burial constructions that have yielded items made from iron occupy a special place among the Yamnaya kurgans in the Middle Volga region and the Southern Urals. It is possible to single out both production items and artifacts used for religious purposes. The radiocarbon data put the kurgans around the first half of III mill. BC. In 2019 the authors conducted new research of the chemical composition of the metal item surface, using modern equipment, performed the stable isotope analysis of the lead and carried out the restoration works of the iron objects. The additional studies provided an opportunity to confirm the meteoric origin of the iron, clarify the shape and the functional purpose of the artifacts. It can be inferred from the analysis of the funerary rite and the offerings made from copper and meteoric iron that the kurgans were intended to bury super leaders. During their lifetime such chieftains could perform management, military and sacral ritual functions. Presence of iron items suggests that the power of the chieftains was deified and the idea of the links between the leadership and heavenly forces was quite common.

scholarly journals New data on geology of the Southern Urals: a concise summary of research after the period of EUROPROBE activity

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Puchkov
Keyword(s):  
Southern Urals ◽  
The Urals ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
To Come

Abstract. The period of an official activity of the EUROPROBE commission was inconnected in the Urals with implementation of the URALIDES Program, that stimulated many qualified geologists from the Western research institutes and Universities to come to the region and work with local geologists at actual problems of the Uralian geology. The author tries to answer a question: what interesting results had been obtained in the Southern Urals in the last decade, when the most of foreign researchers left the Urals, and how these results correspond to the scientific conclusions that had been done before.

scholarly journals The Patriotic War of 1812 and the Foreign Campaigns of 1813-1814 in the Historical Memory of the Peoples of the Urals

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-204
Author(s):  
Vladimir N. Zemtsov
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Southern Urals ◽  
Ural Region ◽  
School Level ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Global History ◽  
The Urals ◽  
The Southern Urals ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Military Production

The article identifies the features of the Ural region in terms of preserving and updating the memory of the epoch of 1812-1814. Based on the analysis of various options for preserving images of the epoch (through living memory, materialized memory, festive events and other means), the author comes to the conclusion that the Ural region, despite its remoteness from the theater of war, organically fit into the all-Russian memorial context. At the same time the memory is shaped by the regions focus on military production, and by its providing a significant part of the irregular cavalry recruited from the Orenburg Cossacks and non-Russian peoples. The latter circumstance, through images of Northern cupids, gave the Urals an exotic fame abroad. Forms of preserving Urals memory of the events of 1812-1814 range from variants of living memory, which includes elements left over from the communicative memory, to purposeful activities of central and local authorities to organize mass events at anniversary dates. A significant role in memory preservation is traditionally played by educational institutions, which, starting from the school level, form the memory of childhood. The greatest concentration of memory elements related to the epoch is observed in the Southern Urals, which is predetermined, to a large extent, by the presence of compactly living non-Russian peoples who seek to emphasize their role in the events of all-Russian and even global history. Unlike a number of other national regions of the Russian Federation, the appeal to historical memory in the Urals takes place within the framework of a unifying and reconciling tradition. Despite some commemorative gaps, the three epochs (pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet) in relation to the historical memory in the Urals about the events of 1812-1814 look quite organic. Images of this great time continue to act as a unifying factor, thus preserving the sense of a common past not only with the all-Russian, but also with common European and global history.

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