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180 A phenological atlas of plants and European northern taiga. In fact, monographs and guidebooks on phenology have been appearing in Russia late ly, but most of them are purely scientific and usually poorly il lustrated (Solovyov, 2005a, b; Terentjeva, 2008). In contrast, the book by N. V. Sinel’nikova and M. N. Pakhomov (2015) on the seasonal life of nature in the Phenologists V. G. Fedotova and A. A. Minin at Upper Kolyma region has quite a conference. Ekaterinburg, 2015 a few merits. Namely, it provides many illustrations of plant phenophases. Many characteristics for phenological observations in Northeast Russia can as well be applied to its utmost Northwest, although some substantial distinctions should be kept in mind. After the completion of the project “Seasonal Life of Nature in the Kola North", however, all institutions continued working on their own, without much information exchange among the participants, and one cannot be certain the protocol is strictly followed, lists of species and phases have not been modified, and so forth. It is obvious that meetings should be arranged for so-called “collective exercise” at least once in several years. Enormous amounts of phenological data are gathered in Russian strict nature reserves in different natural zones, but there is no common “pan-Russian” checklist of species and phenological indices to be monitored, even for individual regions. As a result, the general picture of nature’s seasonal changes in Russia is missing. In addition to strict nature reserves, the country has an operating phenological network, where volunteer enthusiasts gather information on recurrent events in the nature (Minin, 2000,2015; Solovyov, 2005a, 2015). Expectedly, local nature’s calendars differ among Russian regions (Bat- manov, 1952; Makarova et al., 2001; Sinel’nikova and Pakhomov, 2015), even if not all regions have published their materials. Most of strict nature reserves lack smooth connections with Russia’s phenological network, wherefore the valuable data so meticulously gathered for many years do