Contents -- Contributors to This Volume -- Preface -- Introduction to the English edition -- Introduction -- Late Pleistocene Glaciation of the Northern USSR -- 1. Late Pleistocene Glaciation of European USSR -- 2. Late Pleistocene Glaciation of Western Siberia -- 3. Late Pleistocene Glaciation of North-Central Siberia -- 4. Late Pleistocene Mountain Glaciation in Northeastern USSR -- 5. Late Pleistocene Glaciation of the Arctic Shelf, and the Reconstruction of Eurasian Ice Sheets -- Mountain Glaciation -- 6. Mountain Glaciation in the USSR in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene -- 7. Late Pleistocene Glacier Regimes and Their Paleoclimatic Significance -- Permafrost in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene -- 8. Dynamics of Late Quaternary Permafrost in Siberia -- 9. Late Pleistocene Permafrost in European USSR -- 10. Holocene Permafrost in the USSR -- Loesses, Fossil Soils, and Periglacial Formations -- 11. Periglacial Landscapes of the East European Plain -- 12. Loess Stratigraphy in Southwestern Siberia -- 13. The Loess of Central Asia -- 14. Cryogenic Processes in Loess Formation in Central Asia -- 15. Periglacial Landscapes and Loess Accumulation in the Late Pleistocene Arctic and Subarctic -- 16. Age and History of Accumulation of the "Ice Complex" of the Maritime Lowlands of Yakutiya -- Vegetational History -- 17. Late Pleistocene Vegetation History -- 18. Holocene Vegetation History -- 19. Holocene Peatland Development -- Development of Animal Populations -- 20. Late Pleistocene Mammal Fauna of the Russian Plain -- 21. Late Pleistocene Mammal Fauna of Siberia -- 22. Late Pleistocene Insects -- Inland Sea Basins -- 23. Inland Sea Basins -- Paleoclimatic Reconstructions -- 24. Methods and Results of Late Pleistocene Paleoclimatic Reconstructions -- 25. Late Pleistocene Spatial Paleoclimatic Reconstructions.

26. Holocene Paleoclimatic Reconstructions Based on the Zonal Method -- 27. Paleoclimatic Reconstructions Based on the Information Statistical Method -- 28. Holocene Climatic Changes -- Dispersal of Primitive Cultures -- 29. Paleolithic Cultures in the Late Pleistocene -- 30. Human Cultures and the Natural Environment in the USSR during the Mesolithic and Neolithic.