Nº 10 (2023)

The centrosome is a small cellular organelle with a high concentration of a large number of regulatory proteins. Being the main microtubules organization center, the centrosome is also a transport hub of the cell, from which both centrifugal and centripetal transport of protein complexes and entire organelles is carried out along microtubules by the specifi c motor proteins. Although considerable advances have been made in recent years in identifying hundreds of centrosomal proteins, the process of centrosome formation is still poorly understood. This article presents the results of a study of centrosome formation during early embryonic development.

This work presents the results of studying the topographic confi guration of the Venus coronae, spatially related to the manifestations of late episodes of volcanism — lobate plains. It has been established that coronae are relatively rarely associated with young volcanism. However, those that are spatially related to the lobate plains are long-lived complexes, and their volcanism is confi ned to the fi nal phases of activity.

In 2023, a soil monolith was brought from the Orenburg steppe to Moscow. It is made according to the author’s special methodology and is convenient for display in any museum. It was solemnly presented to the Department of Soil Science of the Lomonosov Moscow State University as a gift to the 50th anniversary of the Department from the Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushchino, Russia). The article describes the technology and history of the creation of this monolith.

July 2023 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of E. E. Milanovsky, an outstanding Russian geologist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor, who for many years presided over the Department of Historical and Regional Geology and the Department of Geology of Russia at the Geological Faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. He belonged to a cohort of brilliant scholars of the second half of the 20th — early 21st centuries, and his scientifi c contribution to geology is widely recognized not only on national level, but also on global scale. The article provides a brief overview of the scientifi c and popular science works of Milanovsky, the author of many articles in the journal “Priroda”.