Landscape Investigation of East European Plain, Kursk Region

The Institute of Geography of Russian Academy of Sciences is engaged in research on interannual changes of surface overland flow depending on the influence of climatic and anthropogenic factors. To the latter is referred the rising urbanisation. We can estimate the contribution of urban territory to the surface flow of river basins. As an example we give the results of 13-year investigations in the upper part of the Seym basin the left tributary of the Desna river (the steppe zone of the East European Plain). The catchment area is 18100 km2.