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MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION OF A POSSIBLE GEOPARK AT THE CONFLUENCE OF THE OKA AND VOLGA RIVERS
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The article includes estimates to confirm that the energy of the water of the Oka and Volga rivers at their confluence has being sufficient to erode transfer the volume of surrounding sedimentary rocks, and forming a height difference of about 100 m between the right and left banks and creating a unique landscape of stunning beauty and attractiveness. This phenomenon is due to the work of the Coriolis force and therefore is ubiquitous. However, at the confluence of the Oka and Volga rivers the transfer of sedimentary rocks created a unique landscape of stunning beauty and attractiveness. Geotourism objects in the confluence of the Oka and Volga are outcropping of stratigraphic layers on the right bank of the Volga river including parts of the Puchezh-Katunki dislocation zone and the Bathonian-Callovian deposits near the village Prosek. The bordering Dyatlovy mountains also have numerous cultural and natural heritage sites located on them. In addition to geotourism objects, the territory at the confluence of the Oka and Volga rivers is the focus of ecological tourism objects. Ecotourism sites include the left bank of the Oka covered by oak groves and is of the first terrace above the floodplain terrace along the Oka, a cape at the confluence of the Oka and the Volga, called Strelka, Grebnevsky Sands Island and Mochalny Island; the floodplain ecosystems of the Volga with the Koposov oak forest and the oak forest near Gorodets. Among the objects of the cultural landscape there are the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin; Historical buildings of the 17th - 19th centuries in Pochaina ravine on the Volga embankments; Cathedrals and civil buildings of the Nizhny Novgorod Fair of the 19th century; openwork metal cases of the All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition of 1896. In this article, within the framework of the Platform project, a Multi- Criteria Evaluation was carried out using the Brunswik’s lens method. It made possible to identify the important role of key variables for natural and cultural heritage management system as well as for and the low-carbon economy of the Nizhny Novgorod metropolitan.
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