THE MAIN SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF EMPLOYEES OF THE SECTOR OF PALEOGEOGRAPHY OBTAINED DURING 2017–2024 AT THE INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY OF THE NAS OF UKRAINE

The article is devoted to the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Institute of Geography of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The publication analyzes the latest most important publications by employees of the paleogeography sector in cited domestic and international publications since the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2017). At that time, the main directions of scientific research by employees of the paleogeography sector of the Institute of Geography of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine were: the study of Quaternary sediments of different ages (including ancient and modern soils); update of paleogeographic databases to obtain comprehensive information about the state of natural components of the territory of Ukraine in the past; reproduction of ancient ecological conditions and natural conditions of human habitation in separate stages of the Pleistocene and Holocene; correlation of paleogeographical, archaeological and historical data (to reproduce the cultural dynamics and processes of development of the modern territory of Ukraine in the Paleolithic, Eneolithic, Copper, Bronze, Iron Age, etc.); study of promising methods and directions of paleogeographic assessment of the natural conditions of formation and accumulation of certain types of minerals.