Dr Aleksey SIDORCHUK
Leading Scientist, Laboratory of soil erosion and fluvial processes
Moscow State University, Geographical Faculty

199991 Moscow Leninskiye Gory GSP-1
fluvial05@gmail.com
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  1. Korotayev V., Sidorchuk A., Garrison L. 1987. Palaeogeomorphological analysis of river deltas in the Taz estuary. In: Palaeohydrology of the temperate zone. V.1. Rivers and lakes. Tallinn, 30-43.
  2. Sidorchuk A., Matveev B. 1994. Channel processes and erosion rates in the rivers of the Yamal Peninsula in western Siberia. In: Variability in Stream Erosion and Sediment Transport. IAHS Publ, N 224, 197-202.
  3. Matveev B., Panin A., Sidorchuk A. 1994. Rates of formation of forms in a river channel hierarchy: the case of the River Yana in northeast Russia. In.: Variability in Stream Erosion and Sediment Transport. IAHS Publ N 224, 181-186.
  4. Sidorchuk A. 1994. The effect of open cut mining on sediment transport and alluvium composition at the Omoloy River basin, Eastern Siberia. In: Variability in Stream Erosion and Sediment Transport. Spec. Publ, N 5, 60-63.
  5. Sidorchuk A., Golosov V. 1995. The history of erosion on the northern Ponto-Meotian during the period of intensive agriculture. In: Proc. of workshop on soil erosion in semi-arid Mediterranean areas. Taormina, Italy, 161-173.
  6. Alabyan A.M., Chalov R.S., Korotaev V.N., Sidorchuk A.Yu., Zaitsev A.A. 1995. Natural and Technogenic Water and Sediment Supply to the Laptev Sea. Berichte zur Polarforschung, N 176, 265-271.
  7. Sidorchuk A. 1996. The structure of river bed relief. In: P.J. Ashworth, S.J. Bennet, J.L. Best, S.T. McLelland (eds.) Coherent flow structures in open channels., Chichester, Wiley, 397-421. 
  8. Sidorchuk, A. 1996: Gully thermoerosion on the Yamal peninsula. In: O. Slaymaker (ed.) Geomorphic Hazards. Chichester, Wiley, 141-153.
  9. A.Sidorchuk. 1996. Sediment Budget Change in the Fluvial System at the Central Part of the Russian Plain Due to Human Impact. In: Erosion and Sediment Yield: Global and Regional Perspectives. IAHS Publ 236, 445-452.
  10. A.Sidorchuk. 1997. Palaeohydrology in the Southern Russian Plain: methods and results. VI Congresso da Associacao Brasilera de Estudos do Quaternario e Reuniao sobre o Quaternario da America do Sul. Resumos Expandidos., Curitiba, Parana, Brasil, 479-482
  11. A.Sidorchuk. 1998. Dynamic Model of Gully Erosion. In: J. Boardman, D. Favis-Mortlock (eds.). Modelling soil erosion by water. Springer, 451-460.
  12. Aleksey Sidorchuk and Anna Sidorchuk. 1998. The Model for Estimating of the Gully Morphology. In: Modelling Soil Erosion, Sediment Transport and Closely Related Hydrological Processes, IAHS Publ. 249, 333-344
  13. Sidorchuk A., Grigor'ev V. 1998. Soil erosion on the Yamal peninsula (Russian Arctic) due to gas field exploitation. Advances in GeoEcology, 31: 805-811. 
  14. Panin A.V., Sidorchuk A. Yu., Chernov A.V. 1999. Historical background to floodplain morphology: examples from the East European Plain. In: Floodplains: Interdisciplinary Approaches. London, Geological Society Special Publications, 163, 217-229 http://dx.doi.org/GSL.SP.1999.163.01.17
  15. Sidorchuk, A. 1999: Static and Dynamic Models for Estimation of the Gullies morphology. Catena 37 (3-4): 401-414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0341-8162(99)00029-6
  16. Sidorchuk A., Borisova O., Panin A. 1999. Paleohydrology of East European taiga. Boletin Goiano de Geografia. 19 (1): 98-102
  17. Sidorchuk A.Yu., Panin A.V., Baslerov S.V., Borisova O.K.,Kovalyukh N.N., Sheremetskaya E.D. 2000. Paleohydrological Studies of the Seim River Valley. In: Paleogeography and Paleohydrology of the Lowland River Basins (guide-book for field excursion within Seim river basin, Russia, 24-26 August 2000), Moscow, 68-84
  18. Sidorchuk A.Yu., Borisova O.K. 2000. Method of Paleogeographical Analogues in Paleohydrological Reconstructions. Quaternary International. 72 (1): 95-106 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1040-6182(00)00025-2
  19. Wasson, R.; Sidorchuk, A. 2000: History for soil conservation and catchment management. In: Dovers, S. (ed.). Environmental History and Policy. Still settling Australia. Canberra, Oxford Press, 97-117.
  20. Sidorchuk A., Borisova O., Panin A. 2000. Fluvial Response to the Late Valdai/Holocene Environmental Change on the East European Plain. Journal of Global and Planetary Changes, 28: 303-318 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0921-8181(00)00081-3
  21. Sidorchuk A., Borisova O, Panin A. 2000. The river flow at the north of East European Plain in the Late Glacial - Holocene. International journal of Earth Science, 89: 541-549 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s005310000132
  22. Wasson, B.; Sidorchuk, A. 2000: Land Use and Climate Impacts on Fluvial System During the Period of Agriculture (LUCIFS). PAGES Newsletter, 8 (3): 10.
  23. Sidorchuk, A. 2000: Past Erosion and Sedimentation within Drainage Basin on the Russian Plain. PAGES Newsletter, 8 (3): 19.
  24. Sidorchuk, A. 2001: Stochastic Model to Predict Water Erosion of Cohesive Soil. In: Proc. of Int. Symp Soil Erosion Research for the 21st Century, ASAE, 330-333.
  25. Sidorchuk A., Borisova O., Kovalukh N., Panin A. 2001. Lateglacial and Holocene palaeohydrology of the lower Vychegda river, western Russia. In: D. Maddy, M. G. Macklin, J. C. Woodward. (Eds.) River Basin Sediment Systems: Archives of Environmental Change. Swets & Zeilinger B.V., 265-296.
  26. Sidorchuk, A.; Marker, M.; Moretti, S.; Rodolfi G. 2001: Soil Erosion Modelling in the Mbuluzi River Catchment (Swaziland, South Africa). Part 1. Modelling of the dynamic evolution of gullies. Geogr. Fis. Dinam. Quat. 24: 177-187.
  27. Sidorchuk, A. 2001. GULTEM - The Model to Predict Gully Thermoerosion and Erosion (Theoretical Framework). In: D.E.Stott, R.H. Mohtar and G.C. Steinhardt (eds.). Sustaining the Global Farm. Selected papers from the 10th International Soil Conservation Organization Meeting. 966-972.(CD).
  28. Trustrum N.A., Tate K. R., Page M.J., Sidorchuk A., Baisden W.T. 2002. Towards a national assessment of erosion-related soil carbon losses in New Zealand. In: Proc. of. 12th ISCO conference. V. 3, 182-186
  29. Sidorchuk A., Preston N., Basher L., Baisden T., Trustrum N., Tate K. 2002. Process-based models for simulation and prediction of erosion-related organic carbon losses on the national scale: an example for New Zealand. In: Proc. of. 12th ISCO conference. V.4, 232-238
  30. Sidorchuk A. Stochastic modelling of soil erosion and deposition. 2002. In: Proc. of. 12th ISCO conference. V.4, 136-142
  31. Nachtergaele J, Poesen J, Sidorchuk A., Torri D. 2002. Prediction of concentrated flow width in ephemeral gully channels. Hydrological Processes 16: 1935-1953 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.392
  32. Sidorchuk A., Marker M., Moretti S. Rodolfi G. 2003. Gully erosion modelling and landscape response in the Mbuluzi River catchment of Swaziland, Catena, 50 (2-4), 507-525 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0341-8162(02)00123-6
  33. Marker, M., Sidorchuk, A.  2003. Assessment of gully erosion process dynamics for water resources management in a semiarid catchment of Swaziland (Southern Africa)  IAHS-AISH Publication (279), pp. 188-198 
  34. Flugel W.-A, Marker M., Moretti S., Rodolfi G., Sidorchuk A. 2003. Integrating GIS, Remote Sensing, Ground Trouthing and Modelling Approaches for Regional Erosion Classification of semiarid catchments in South Africa and Swaziland. Hydrological Processes 17, 929-942. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.1171
  35. Sidorchuk A., Panin A., Borisova O. 2003 The Late Glacial and the Holocene palaeohydrology of the Northern Eurasia. In: K.J.Gregory, G.Benito (eds.). Palaeohydrology: Understanding Global Change. Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 61-76
  36. Sidorchuk A., Walling D., Wasson R. 2003. A LUCIFS Strategy: Modelling the Sediment Budgets of Fluvial Systems. In: A. Lang, K. Hennrich, R. Dikau (eds.). Long Term Hillslope and Fluvial System Modelling. Springer, Berlin, 19-36 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36606-7_2
  37. Sidorchuk A. Floodplain Sedimentation: Inherited Memories. 2003. Global and Planetary Change, 39 (1-2): 13 -29 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0921-8181(03)00011-0
  38. Litvin L. F., Zorina Ye. F., Sidorchuk A. Yu., Chernov A. V., Golosov V. N. 2003. Erosion and sedimentation on the Russian Plain, Part I: Contemporary processes. Hydrological Processes, 17 (16): 3335-3346 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.1390
  39. Sidorchuk A. Yu., Golosov V. N. 2003. Erosion and sedimentation on the Russian Plain, Part II: The history of erosion and sedimentation during the period of intensive agriculture. Hydrological Processes 17 (16): 3347-3358 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.1391
  40. Belyaev V. R., Wallbrink P. J., Golosov V. N., Murray A. S., Sidorchuk A. Yu. 2004. Reconstructing the development of a gully in the upper Kalaus basin, Stavropol region (southern Russia). Earth Surf. Process. Landforms 29, 323-341  http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.1025
  41. Sidorchuk A., Smith A., Nikora V. 2004. Probability distribution function approach in stochastic modelling of soil erosion In: Sediment Transfer through the Fluvial System (Proceedings of a symposium held in Moscow, August 2004). IAHS Publ. 288, 345-353
  42. Korotaev V. N., Ivanov V. V., Sidorchuk A. Yu. 2004. Alluvial relief structure and bottom sediments of the lower Volga River In: Sediment Transfer through the Fluvial System (Proceedings of a symposium held in Moscow, August 2004). IAHS Publ. 288, 300-307
  43. Preston N.J., Trustrum N.A., Sidorchuk A.Y., Hicks D.M., Baisden W.T., Giltrap D.J., Scott D.T., Page M.J, Tate K.R. 2004. Estimating national erosion-related soil carbon losses in New Zealand: an indicator for Kyoto compliance and sustainability assessment. pp. 1-11. In: Francaviglia R. (Ed.) Agricultural Impacts on Soil Erosion and Soil Biodiversity: Developing Indicators for Policy Analysis. Proceedings from an OECD Expert Meeting -Rome, Italy, March 2003, 654 pp.
  44. Belyaev V. R., Wallbrink P. J., Golosov V. N., Murray A. S., Sidorchuk A. Yu.  2005. Comparision of direct measurement, USLE and caesium-137 based methods for Evaluating soil redistribution from severe sheet and ephemeral gully erosion. Geomorphology 65 (3): 173-193 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2004.09.001
  45. Sidorchuk A. 2005. Stochastic components in the gully erosion modelling. Catena 63 (2-3): 299-317 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2005.06.007
  46. Sidorchuk A. 2005. Stochastic modelling of erosion and deposition in cohesive soils. Hydrological Processes, 19: 1399-1417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.5568
  47. Borisova O., Sidorchuk A., Panin A. 2006. Palaeohydrology of the Seim River basin, Mid-Russian Upland, based on palaeochannel morphology and palynological data. Catena 66: 53 - 73 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2005.07.010
  48. Sidorchuk A., Nikora V., Smith A., Nokes R., Veale W., Popinnet S., Pinkney E., Jessen M., Cooper G. 2006. Stochastic Mechanics of Soil Erosion. Procedings of 14th International Soil Conservation Organization Conference.Water Management and Soil Conservation in Semi-Arid Environments. Marrakech, Morocco, (CD).
  49. Belyaev V.R., Sidorchuk A.Yu., Golosov V.N., Wallbrink P.J., Murray A.S. 2006. Assessing the Contribution of Different Processes to Soil Degradation within an Arable Catchment of the Stavropol Upland, Southern European Russia. In: P.N. Owens, A.J. Collins (Eds.) Soil Erosion and Sediment Redistribution in River Catchments Measurement, Modelling and Management, 40-50 http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9780851990507.0128
  50. Sidorchuk A.Yu., Smith A., Nikora V. 2006. Double-averaging Methodology in Stochastic Modelling of Soil Erosion. In: P.N. Owens, A.J. Collins (Eds.) Soil Erosion and Sediment Redistribution in River Catchments Measurement, Modelling and Management, 162-169. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9780851990507.0128
  51. Sidorchuk A. 2006. Stages in gully evolution and self-organized criticality. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 31(11): 1329-1344. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.1334
  52. Sidorchuk A., Litvin L., Golosov V., Chernysh A. 2006. European Russia and Byelorus. In: J. Boarman, J. Poesen (Eds.). Soil Erosion in Europe. Chichester, Wiley, 73-93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/0470859202.ch8
  53. Sidorchuk A. Y., Panin A. V., Borisova O. K. Climate-induced changes in surface runoff on the North-Eurasian plains during the Late Glacial and Holocene // Water Resources. — 2008. — Vol. 35, no. 4. — P. 386–396. http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S0097807808040027
  54. Golosov, V., Sidorchuk, A., Walling, D.E. 2008. Nikolay I. Makkaveev and the development of Fluvial Geomorphology in Russia and the former Soviet Union. Catena, 73 (1), p.146-150 
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2007.10.003
  55. Sidorchuk, A., Schmidt, J., Cooper G., 2008. Variability of shallow overland flow velocity and soil aggregate transport observed with digital videography. Hydrological Processes 22, 4035-4048. http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S106422930905010X
  56. Sidorchuk, A. 2009. A third generation erosion model: The combination of probabilistic and deterministic components , Geomorphology, 110 (1), p.2-10 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.12.019
  57. Sidorchuk Aleksey Yu., Panin Andrei V., Borisova Olga K. 2009. Morphology of river channels and surface runoff in the Volga River basin (East European Plain) during the Late Glacial period. Geomorphology, Volume 113, Issues 3-4, Pages 137-157 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.03.007
  58. Sidorchuk Aleksey, Andrey Panin, Olga Borisova (2011)  Surface runoff to the Black Sea from the East European Plain during the Last Glaciation Maximum - Late Glacial time. in Buynevich, I., Yanko-Hombach, V., Gilbert, A.S., and Martin, R.E., eds., Geology and Geoarchaeology of the Black Sea Region: Beyond the Flood Hypothesis: Geological Society of America Special Paper 473, p. 1–25 http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/2011.2473(01)
  59. Sidorchuk Aleksey (2012) Large Alluvial River Channel Patterns and Complexity . In: Daniel A. Molina (ed) River Channels: Types, Dynamics and Changes  pp. 51-110
  60. Sidorchuk A. Y., Panin A. V., Borisova O. K. River runoff decrease in northeurasian plains during the Holocene optimum // Water Resources. — 2012. — Vol. 39, no. 1. — P. 69–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S0097807812010113
  61. Aleksey Sidorchuk, Olga Borisova, Aleksey Chernov, and Andrey Panin. Three main stages of floodplain evolution in northern eurasia and their ecological significance. In Floodplains: Environmental Management, Restoration and Ecological Implications, Environmental Research Advances, pages 69–136. Nova Science Pub Hauppauge, N.Y., 2013.
  62. Sidorchuk A. Evaluating bedload transport rate in a river bed taking into account data on the active and passive bed-forms dynamics // Water Resources. — 2015. — Vol. 42, no. 1. — P. 38–51 http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S009780781501011X
  63. Sidorchuk A. Soil erosion as the source of organic carbon deposited in the river valleys // Advances in Environmental research. — Vol. 60. — Nova Science Pub Hauppauge, N.Y., 2017. — P. 59–98.
  64. Alekseevskii N. I., Sidorchuk A. Y. Morphology and dynamics of active bed forms in the Terek River. channel // Water Resources. — 2017. — Vol. 44, no. 2. — P. 226–236. http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S0097807817010031
  65. Sidorchuk A. The fluvial system on the East European plain: sediment source and sink // GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY. — 2018. — Vol. 11, no. 3. — P. 5–20.
     https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2018-11-3-05-20
  66. Sidorchuk A. Gully erosion and thermo-erosion modelling for the conditions of the modern and the late-glacial periglacial climate // Climate Change Impacts on Hydrological Processes and Sediment Dynamics: Measurement, Modelling and Management. — Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences. — Springer Nature Switzerland AG Cham, Switzerland, 2019. — P. 126–128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03646-1/_24
  67. Sidorchuk A. The emission of carbon dioxide from soils washed-out and buried by accelerated erosion in the chernozem belt of the European Russia // Climate Change Impacts on Hydrological Processes and Sediment Dynamics: Measurement, Modelling and Management. — Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences. — Springer Nature Switzerland AG Cham, Switzerland, 2019. — Ñ. 121–125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03646-1/_23
  68. Vandenberghe J., Sidorchuk A. Large palaeomeanders in Europe: Distribution, formation process, age, environments and significance // Palaeohydrology. — Geography of the Physical Environment. — Springer Cham, 2019. — P. 169–186. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23315-0/_9
  69. Sidorchuk A. The potential of gully erosion on the Yamal peninsula, West Siberia // Sustainability. — 2020. — Vol. 12, no. 1. — P. 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12010260
  70. Sidorchuk A. Y., Matveeva T. A. Periglacial gully erosion on the East European plain and its recent analog at the Yamal peninsula // GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY. — 2020. — Vol. 13, no. 1. — P. 183–194 http://dx.doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2019-01
  71. Sidorchuk A. Yu. Assessing the gully potential of a territory (a case study of central Yamal // Geography and Natural Resources. — 2020. — Vol. 41, no. 2. — P. 178–186. 
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S1875372820020109
  72. Matveeva T., Sidorchuk A. Modelling of surface runoff on the Yamal peninsula, Russia, using ERA5 reanalysis // Water. — 2020. — Vol. 12, no. 8. — P. 2099 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w12082099
  73. Sidorchuk A. Y. Morphology of dune-like relief in rivers // Water Resources. — 2020. — Vol. 47, no. 1. — P. 65–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/s0097807820010133
  74. A. Panin, O. Borisova, E. Konstantinov,  Belyaev Y., Eremenko E., Zakharov A., Sidorchuk A..The Late Quaternary evolution of the upper reaches of fluvial systems in the southern East European plain /  // Quaternary. — 2020. — no. 3. — P. 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/quat3040031
  75. V. N. Golosov, A. L. Collins, N. G. Dobrovolskaya, O. I. Bazhenova, Yu V. Ryzhov, and A. Yu Sidorchuk. Soil loss on the arable lands of the forest-steppe and steppe zones of European Russia and Siberia during the period of intensive agriculture. Geoderma, 381:114678, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114678
  76. Sidorchuk A. Y., Ukraintsev V. Y., Panin A. V. Estimating annual volga runoff in the late glacial epoch from the size of river paleochannels // Water Resources. — 2021. — Vol. 48, no. 6. — P. 864–876. 
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/s0097807821060178 
  77. Panin A. V., Sidorchuk A. Y., Ukraintsev V. Y. The contribution of glacial melt water to annual runoff of river volga in the last glacial epoch // Water Resources. — 2021. — Vol. 48, no. 6. — P. 877–885. 
     http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/s0097807821060142
  78. Sidorchuk A. Models of gully erosion by water // Water. — 2021. — Vol. 13, no. 22-3293. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w13223293
  79. Sidorchuk A. The theoretical approach to the modelling of gully erosion in cohesive soil // Earth. — 2022. — Vol. 3, no. 1. — P. 228–244. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/earth3010015
  80. A. Panin, O. Borisova, V. Belyaev, Y. Belyaev, E. Eremenko, Y. Fuzeina, E. Sheremetskaya, and A. Sidorchuk. Evolution of the upper reaches of fluvial systems within the area of the East European plain glaciated during MIS 6. Quaternary, 5(1):13, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat5010013
  81. Sidorchuk Aleksey 2022 The Theoretical Approach to the Modelling of Gully Erosion in Cohesive Soil   Earth,  American Geological Institute (United States), V 3, ¹ 1, P. 228-244  http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/earth3010015
  82. Sidorchuk Aleksey 2023 The Large Rivers of the Past in West Siberia: Unknown Hydrological Regimen  â Water, MDPI Publishing (Basel, Switzerland, Switzerland), V 15, ¹ 2 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w15020258
  83. Gelfan A., Panin A., Kalugin A., Morozova P., Semenov V., Sidorchuk A., Ukraintsev V., Ushakov K 2024 Hydroclimatic processes as the primary drivers of the Early Khvalynian transgression of the Caspian Sea: new developments . Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, European Geophysical Society (Germany), V 28, ñ. 241-259 http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-241-2024
  84. Sidorchuk Aleksey, Panin Andrei, Borisova Olga 2024 Hydrological Regime of Rivers in the Periglacial Zone of the East European Plain in the Late MIS 2   Quaternary,  Publishing (Basel, Switzerland, Switzerland), V  7, ¹ 3, ñ. 1-21 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/quat7030032