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23Д A phenological atlas of plants doesn't contain detailed phase descriptions, and the full cycle is presented not for all species. Nonetheless, this source has long served the needs of nature reserve staff, phenologists and naturalists. At the turn of the 21st century, realizing it was clearly inadequate for school environmental education and competence-building of biol ogy teachers and nature reserve staff, i.e. urged by operational needs, we dared in 2005 to announce the preparation of a phenology atlas for publication (http://pasvik.org.ru/Activity/publish.htm) . This term has not really caught on yet. The book you’re reading now, a phenological atlas, is a modern learning aid with plant photographs and scanned images, and detailed descriptions of each phenophase. A complementary multimedia product available is the “Video Atlas of Plant Phenophases". The phenology atlas idea announced a little over 10 years ago was sup ported by teachers in the Murmansk Region and the neighboring Finnmark, with whom we have continuously collaborated. Everybody was so much looking forward to this phenology atlas, which was to give direct answers to questions such as which phase a species is in at the moment, how not to misdetermine a phenophase, what is the correct name for a phase. It turned out however that in addition to illustrations their detailed descriptions were needed, and it’s only now that the actual book has been produced. Practice shows that the question of unifying phenological techniques and approaches has long been in the air: there is a pressing need to com pile one pan-Russian list of phenological indicators without complex and confusing notations, which, although they have long grown obsolete and must be replaced, are still used by some specialists (Ermakova, 2016). The authors sincerely hope this edition w ill prove useful for both young and experienced conservationists, beginning amateur phenologists, stu dents and schoolchildren, teachers and university lecturers. The English version of the book w ill make it usable in international phenology-related cooperation, both within the “Phenology of the North Calotte" programme and in other initiatives and actions. It would be great if in connection to strict nature reserves, where truly continuous phenological monitoring is carried out, local people of any age or profession become involved in observations to contribute to the study and conservation of nature. The atlas was made very colorful to attract also younger talents. We do believe