Climate Change Affecting Different Parts of Russia Very Differently, Academy of Sciences-Higher School of Economics Study Says

Paul Goble

            Staunton, July 5 – Climatologists typically discuss the impact of global warming country by country, but the Russian Federation is so large and environmentally diverse that scholars at the Academy of Sciences and at the Higher School of Economics have now come up with a rating that details just how differently different regions are being affected.

            They rated the country’s more than 80 federal subjects according to how much the situation is changing and is projected to change over the next 30 years according to “heat, drought or water stress, wildfires, extreme precipitation and permafrost degradation” (newizv.ru/news/2025-07-04/spasaysya-kto-mozhet-kakie-regiony-rf-postradayut-ot-izmeneniya-klimata-silnee-vsego-437348).

            The purpose of this rating was to call attention to those places where the authorities must take action now in order to prepare for the worst. While all federal subjects are or will be affected by one or more of them, nine of the federal subjects either now or soon will be affected by all five.

            These nine are Amur Oblast, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Leningrad Oblast, Moscow Oblast, TransBaikal Kray, Krasnodar Kray, Khabarovsk Kray, Bashkortostan and the Komi Republic. In those places, officials must take action in five directions at once lest disaster ensue, the scholars who conducted the study say.