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https://doi.org/10.26516/2541-9641.2026.2.189

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Spring Expedition of the Portulan Club to the Munku-Sardyk Area in 2026 (Republic of Buryatia)

A.D. Kitov

Sochava Institute of Geography, SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia

Abstract. The results are summarised and the field research work within the spring expedition of 2026 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.

Keywords: Munku-Sardyk Ridge, aufeis, thermochrons, regime observations of aufeis, weather monitoring

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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.: (3952) 42–74–72,

email: kitov@irigs.irk.ru

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