Environmental Threats to the Russian Borderlands
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عنوان ژورنال: Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya.
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0373-2444
DOI: 10.15356/0373-2444-2017-1-35-46