UDC 910.2(079.3)

https://doi.org/10.26516/2541-9641.2025.3.243

EDN: TVAGXG

XXIV Summer Expedition of the Club Portulan and IG SB RAS to the Munku-Sardyk Area in 2025 (Republic of Buryatia)

A.D. Kitov¹, E.N. Ivanov¹

¹Sochava Institute of Geography, SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia

Abstract. The results are summarised and the field research work of students within the spring expedition of 2025 of the student-teaching club "Portulan" together with the staff of the Institute of Geography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences to the Munku-Sardyk mountain area, as a result of which field scientific geographical research of nival-glacial formations, river and slope glaciers, slope relief forms and processes forming them in the valleys of the Bely Irkut, Bugovek and Muguvek rivers was carried out: regime surveys of high-mountainous glaciers, and weather monitoring was traditionally conducted. This year, significant transformations of the Peretolchin, Radde glaciers and the Active ice-stone stream took place.

Keywords: Munku-Sardyk ridge, river icing, nival-glacial formations, research work, regime observations of river icing, weather

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Kitov Aleksandr Danilovich,

Candidate of Technical Sciences,

664033, Irkutsk, Ulaanbaatarskaya st., 1,

Sochava Institute of Geography, SB RAS,

Senior Research Fellow,

tel.: (964) 42–74–72,

email: kitov3@mail.ru