This and the following pages list non-Russian/CIS-language books, and a few long articles, about natural history, ecology, conservation and related subjects in CIS countries.
This page contains authors A-G; the second page covers H-P, and the third page R-Z.
Abbreviations: be-wj - British East-West Journal; IPST - Israel Program of Scientific Translations; inc. - including; IWRB - International Waterfowl & Wetlands Research Bureau; nw21 - Network 21; pub. - published by/publisher; rcn - Russian Conservation News; RusAcSci - Russian Academy of Sciences, and similarly for the other republics' Academies; st - Surviving Together (magazine of ISAR); transl.- translation/translated.
anon. General Fisheries Council for the Mediterranean: Report of the Second Technical Consultation on Stock Assessment in the Black Sea, Ankara, Turkey, 15-19 February 1993, Rome: FAO, 1994.
anon. Arctic Pollution Issues: a State of the Arctic Environmental Report, Oslo: Arctic Monitoring & Assessment Programme, 1997.
anon. First Darwin Report. Darwin Initiative for the Survival of Species, London: Dept of the Environment, Transport & the Regions, April 1998.
anon. The Rational Utilization of Natural Resources and the Protection of the Environment, Moscow: Progress, 1983, 327 pp.
anon. Sustainable Use of Natural Resources of Central Asia: Environmental Problems of the Aral Sea and Surrounding Areas, Almaty: Tethys, 1998.
anon. Translations of Russian Game Reports, Ottawa: Canadian Dept of Northern Affairs & Natural Resources, 1957-59. 6 vols.
Abdulina S.A. & Kamelin R.V. (ed.) Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Kazakhstan, Almaty: Institute of Botany & Plant Introductions, Ministry of Science/Academy of Sciences, 1998.
Adamian M.S., Klem D. A Field Guide to Birds of Armenia, Oaklands, Calif.& Yerevan: American
University in Armenia, 1997. This excellent production has 61 colour plates of birds with facing text; distribution maps.
Aleksandrova V.D. The Arctic and Antarctic: their Division into Geobotanical Areas. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ.Press, 1980.
Aleksandrova V.D. Vegetation of the Soviet Polar Deserts (trans. by Doris Löve of Rastitel'nost'
polyarnikh pustyn' SSSR, L: Nauka, 1988, ), Cambridge UK: Cambridge Univ.Press, 1983.
Amirkhanov A.M. et al. The First National Report of the Russian Federation: Biodiversity Conservation in Russia, Moscow: State Committee of the Russian Federation for Environmental Protection, Project GEF 'Biodiversity Conservation'.
Aramilev I. Beyond the Ural Mountains: the Adventures of a Siberian Hunter, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1961, 191 pp.
Arsenev V.K. Dersu the Trapper (abridged transl.by Malcolm Burr of Dersu Uzala, London: Secker & Warburg, 1939, and New York: Dutton, 1941. Dersu Uzala (transl.of the same book by V.Shneerson), Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 195..?. This famous work is based on Arsenev's diaries, kept while exploring the Sikhote-Alin Mountains in the Far East, with fictional elements added.
Astanin L.P., Blagosklonov K.N. Conservation of Nature, Moscow: Progress, 1983.
Bakharev A.N., I.V.Michurin, the Great Remaker of Nature, Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1954. Translated from Russian.
Barr B., Braden K. The Disappearing Russian Forest: a Dilemma in Soviet Resource Management, London: Hutchinson, and Totowa NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1988.
Baskin L.M. ‘Hunting of game mammals in the Soviet Union', in Milner-Gulland E.J., R.Mace The Conservation of Biological Resources, Blackwell Science, 1998.
Baxter J., Atkins T. The Fire came by: the Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion, London: Futura, 1977. On the Tungus Event.
Baykov N.A. Manchurian Tiger, Kharbin, 1925. English translation by Alex Shevlakov available (Sept.2004) at www.5tigers.org and www.tigers.ru (page www.tigers.ru/books/baikov/he1.html).
Bazilevich N.I., Tishkov A.A. ‘Live and dead reserves and primary production in polar desert, tundra, and forest tundra of the former Soviet Union', in Goodall, vol.3 Polar & Alpine Tundra (ed.F.E.Wielgolaski), 1997, pp.509-540.
Belov A.V. et al. The Present & Future State of the Lake Baykal Region (Possibilities for Sustainable Development), Part I Natural Complex, Novosibirsk: Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, 1996. In English & Russian.
Berg L.S. Freshwater Fishes of the USSR and Adjacent Countries, 3 vols. Jerusalem: IPST, 1962-65.
Bergman S. Zur Kenntnis nordostasiatischer Vögel, Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1935. In German. On Kamchatka & Kuril Islands.
Bianki V.V. Gulls, Shorebirds and Alcids of Kandalaksha Bay, Jerusalem: IPST, 1977. Russian original published 1967.
Bogatov V., Sirotski S., Yuriev D. ‘The ecosystem of the Amur River' in Goodall, vol.22 River & Stream Ecosystems (ed.C.E.Cushing et al.), 1995, pp.601-614.
Borisov A.A. Climates of the USSR , Edinburgh & London: Oliver & Boyd, 1965. Translation of 2nd edition of Klimaty SSSR, Moscow: Gosudarstvennoye Uchebno-Pedagogicheskoe Izdatelstvo, 1959.
Botch M.S., Masing V.V. ‘Mire ecosystems in the USSR', in Goodall, vol.4B Mires: Swamp, Bog, Fen & Moor. Regional Studies, (ed.A.J.P.Gore), 1983, pp.95-152.
Botting D. One Chilly Siberian Morning, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1965, 192 pp.
Botting D. Humboldt and the Cosmos, London: Michael Joseph, 1973. Pages 238-252 describe his Siberian expedition.
Brown T., Mugglestone F. The Aral Sea (in series '16-19 Geography Options'), Harlow UK: Longman, 1994. A school text with 9 pages on the Aral Sea.
Buturlin S.A., Dementiev G.P. Systema Avium Rossicarum (Catalogue critique des Oiseaux de l'U.R.S.S.), vol.I, Paris, 1935.
Carruthers D. Beyond the Caspian: a Naturalist in Central Asia, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1949.
Chebakova I.V. National Parks of Russia: a Guidebook, Moscow: Biodiversity Conservation Centre, 1997.
Chernov Yu.I. The Living Tundra (transl.from Russian), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ.Press, 1985.
Chernov Yu.I., Matveyeva N.V. ‘Arctic Ecosystems in Russia', in Goodall vol.3, Polar & Alpine Tundra (ed.F.E.Wielgolaski), 1997, pp.133-160.
Collins D. Siberia & the Soviet Far East (bibliography), Oxford: Clio, 1991.
Collins P.M. Siberian Journey: down the Amur to the Pacific, 1856-1857, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1962.
Crivelli A.J., Krivenko V.G., Vinogradov V.G. (eds.) Pelicans in the Former USSR, Slimbridge, UK: IWRB, 1994.
Czerepanov S.L. Vascular Plants of Russia & Adjacent States (the former USSR), Cambridge UK: Cambridge Univ.Press, 1995. A comprehensive list (21,770 species of native, alien wild plants, and cultivated plants becoming naturalised) with synonyms and rough guide to distributions. Revised and enlarged English edition of Sosudistyye rasteniya SSSR (Plantae vasculares URSS), 1981.
Davydova M., Koshevoi V. Nature Reserves in the USSR, Moscow: Progress, 1989, 106 pp.
Dementev G.P., Gladkov N.A. et al. Birds of the Soviet Union (6 vols.), Jerusalem: IPST, 1966- 70. Transl. of Ptitsy Sovetskogo Soyuza, 1951-54.
Digby B. The Mammoth & Mammoth Hunting in North-east Siberia, London: Witherby, 1926
Dobzhansky Th., edited by B.Glass The Roving Naturalist: Travel Letters of Theodosius Dobzhansky, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1980. Pages 13-29 describe his three expeditions to Central Asia (1925,'26,'27).
Durrell G.M., Durrell L. Gerald & Lee Durrell in Russia, London: MacDonald, 1986. An account of a journey around the Soviet Union to make a TV series; chapters cover the Darvinski, Oka, Berezina (Belarus), Askaniya Nova, Chatkal, Repetek (Turkmenistan) zapovedniks, and also the Caucasus, Astrakhan and Kalmykia, Bukhara, Lake
Baykal, Taymyr, and Moscow pet market.
Ebbinge B.S. et al. Heritage of the Russian Arctic: Research, Conservation and International Cooperation, Moscow: Ecopros Publishers. Proceedings of an international scientific symposium (Willem Barents Memorial Arctic Conservation Symposium) held in Moscow, 10-14 March 1998; organised by Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management & Fisheries in collaboration with various Russian organisations (a State Committee and two institutes).
Fedorov A.A. (ed.) Flora of Russia: the European part & bordering regions, Rotterdam: Balkema, vol.i 1999; vol.ii 1999; vol.iii 2000; vol.iv 2001; vol.v 2001; vol.vi 2002. Eleven volumes expected.
A transl. of Flora evropeyskoy chasti SSSR 1974-89 [and later?].
Feshbach M. (ed) Environmental and Health Atlas of Russia, Moscow: PAIMS Publishing House, 1995, 448 pp, pbk, distributed by Center for Post-Soviet Studies, 2 Wisconsin Circle, Suite 410, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815. Contains introductory chapters and numerous interesting maps (unreadable by the colourblind).
Feshbach M. Ecological Disaster: Cleaning up the Hidden Legacy of the Soviet Regime, NY: Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1995, 167 pp, pbk. Russian edition is Atlas 'Okruzhayushchaya sreda i zdorov'e naseleniya Rossii.
Feshbach M., Friendly A. Ecocide in the USSR, London: Aurum, 1992, 394 pp. Journalistic.
Finlayson C.M. et al. Biogeography of the Lower Volga, (IWRB publication 28). Slimbridge UK: IWRB, 1993.
Finlayson C.M. (ed.) Wetland Conservation & Management in the Lower Volga, Russia: Proceedings of a Workshop held in Astrakhan, Russia, 1991 (IWRB Special Publication 18). Slimbridge UK: IWRB, 1992.
Flint V.E., Boehme R.L. (et al.) A Field Guide to Birds of the USSR, including Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Princeton: Princeton Univ.Press, 1984 (hardback), 1989 (softback). The standard field guide for the area, at least until new field guides are available. Translation of Ptitsy SSSR, 1968.
Flint V.E., Golovkin A.N. Handbuch der Vögel Rußlands und angrenzender Gebiete, 6/2, Charadriiformes/Alcae, Magdeburg: Westarp Wissenschaften, 1994. Transl.of Ptitsy SSSR.
Freidberg A., Sergeyev M. Baikal, Moscow: Planeta, 1982. Photoalbum with magnificent photos by Freidberg and text by Sergeyev (in English & Russian).
Furneaux R. The Tungus Event: the Great Siberian Catastrophe of 1908, St Albans: Panther, 1977. On the Tungus Event.
Gippenreiter V. The Birth of a Volcano, Moscow: Planeta, 1979. Photoalbum of Kamchatka with text in Russian and English.
Goodall D.W. (ed.in chief) Ecosystems of the World, Amsterdam: Elsevier. Selected articles in this series are included in this list. Volume 6 on Coniferous Forest has apparently not yet been published (October 1998).
Graham L.R. Science, Philosophy & Human Behaviour in the Soviet Union, NY: Columbia Univ.Press, 1987.
Green M. Nature Reserves of the Himalaya and the Mountains of Central Asia, IUCN, 1993.
Grossheim A.A. Sketch of the Vegetation of Transcaucasia: Azerbaijan, Armenia & Georgia, Tiflis, 1930. Text in English; maps.
Grote H. Aus der ornithologischen Literatur Rußlands. Berichte und Übersetzungen, [publisher?], [date?]
Gruber R. I went to the Soviet Arctic, London: Gollancz, 1939.
Gvozdetsky N.A. Soviet Geographical Explorations & Discoveries, Moscow: Progress, 1974, 343 pp.