Last update: 2025/08

Peer-Review Articles 

1. "Late Pleistocene-Holocene Caldera-Forming Explosive Volcanism of the Great Kuril Arc", Smirnov S., Kotov A., Bergal-Kuvikas O., Degterev A., Russian Geology and Geophysics, 2025, V. 66 (6), P. 657-675. https://doi.org/10.2113/RGG20254817 PDF  

2. "Late Pleistocene Mafic Magmatism and Its Relation to Large Caldera-Forming Eruptions on Iturup Island: An Example of Klumba Volcano, Kuril Islands", Timina T., Smirnov S., Kuzmin D., Kotov A., Rybin A., Danilovsky V., Izokh A., Petrology, 2025, V. 33, P. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869591124700309 PDF

3. "High alumina daughter paragenesis from melt inclusions in olivine of Kudryavy and Men'shiy Brat volcanoes (Medvezha caldera, Iturup Island)”, Nizametdinov I., Smirnov S., Shevko A., Kuzmin D., Kotov A., Sekisova V., Timina T., Russian Journal of Pacific Geology, 2024, V. 18, P. 410-435. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1819714024700131 PDF

4. "Formation Conditions of Ignimbrites of the Khangar Volcano (Kamchatka, Russia)", Simonov V., Kotlyarov A., Kotov A., Perepelov A., Karmanov N., Borovikov A. Russian Geology and Geophysics, 2024, V. 65 (7), P. 831-847. https://doi.org/10.2113/RGG20234566 PDF

5. "Multiphase-solid fluid inclusions in HP-LT eclogite facies rock (Zavkhan Terrane, Western Mongolia): evidence for the evolution from saline to hypersaline fluids during metamorphism in subduction zone", Bayarbold M., Okamoto A., Uno M., Yoshida K., Kotov A., Agroli G., Dandar O., Niwa Y., Kimura M., Tsuchiya N., Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2023, V. 178 (85). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-023-02055-3 PDF

6. "Partial Melting Under Shallow-Crustal Conditions: A Study of the Pleistocene Caldera Eruption of Mendeleev Volcano, Southern Kuril Island Arc", Kotov A., Smirnov S., Nizametdinov I., Uno M., Tsuchiya N., Maksimovich I., Journal of Petrology, 2023, V. 64 (6). https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egad033 PDF 

7. “Method for Determining Water Content in Natural Rhyolitic Melts by Raman Spectroscopy and Electron Microprobe Analysis”, Kotov A., Smirnov S., Plechov P., Persikov E., Chertkova N., Maksimovich I., Karmanov N., Buhtiyarov P., Petrology, 2021, V. 29, P. 386–403. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869591121040044  PDF 

8. “Hydrocarbons in Magmatic Fluid in Phenocrysts of Eruption Products of the Men’shii Brat Volcano (Iturup Island): Data from Pyrolysis-Free Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry of Melt and Fluid Inclusions”, Nizametdinov I., Kuzmin D., Smirnov S., Bul’bak T., Tomilenko A., Maksimovich I., Kotov A. Russian Geology and Geophysics, 2022, V. 63 (8), P. 890–900. https://doi.org/10.2113/RGG20214415 PDF

9. “High explosivity of the June 21, 2019 eruption of Raikoke volcano (Central Kuril Islands); mineralogical and petrological constraints on the pyroclastic materials”, Smirnov S., Nizametdinov I., Timina T., Kotov A., Sekisova V., Kuzmin D., Kalacheva E., Rashidov V., Rybin A., Lavrenchuk A., Degterev A., Maksimovich I., Abersteiner A., Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 2021, V. 418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2021.107346 PDF

10. “Parental Melts and Magma Storage of a Large-volume Dacite Eruption at Vetrovoy Isthmus (Iturup Island, Southern Kuril Islands): Insights into the Genesis of Subduction-zone Dacites”, Smirnov S., Rybin A., Kruk N., Timina T., Sokolova E., Kuzmin D., Maksimovich I., Kotov A., Shevko A., Nizametdinov I., Abersteiner A., Journal of Petrology, 2019, V. 60 (7), P. 1349–1370. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egz032 PDF

11. “Behavior of volatiles in the magmatic reservoirs of large-scale eruptions of Pleistocene-Holocene calderas of Iturup Island (Kuril Islands)”, Smirnov S., Maksimovich I., Kotov A., Timina T., Bulbak T., Tomilenko A., Kuzmin D., Shevko A., Rybin A. Geosystems of transition zones, 2018, V. 2 (4), P. 365-376, 2018. DOI:10.30730/2541-8912.2018.2.4.365-376. (in Russian) PDF

Other publications (extended abstract, proceedings)

1. “Water in melt inclusions from phenocrysts of dacite pumice of the Vetrovoy Isthmus (Iturup Island, Southern Kuriles)”, Kotov A.A., Smirnov S.Z., Maksimovich I.A., Plechov, P., Chertkova, N.V., Befus, A.I., IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 110(1), 2018, https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/110/1/012009 PDF

2. “Magma storage constraints by compositional zoning of plagioclase from dacites of the caldera-forming eruptions of Vetrovoy Isthmus and Lvinaya Past' Bay (Iturup Island, Kurile Islands)”, Maksimovich I.A., Smirnov S.Z., Kotov A.A., Timina T, Shevko A.V., IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 110(1), 2018, https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/110/1/012015 PDF

Papers in progress

1. “Evolution of the crustal magma plumbing system beneath Naruko caldera, NE Honshu: insight from zoning and volatile budget”, Kotov A., Okumura S., Miyagi I., Shimizu K., Uno M., Tsuchiya N., Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (Accepted)

Conference Presentations

Kotov A., Okumura S., Agroli G., Shimizu K., Ushikubo T., Uno M., Tsuchiya N., Timescales of magmatic processes prior two catastrophic eruptions of Naruko caldera: insight from diffusion chronometry in quartz and orthopyroxene, JpGU, 2024, Chiba, Oral.

Kotov A., Tsuchiya N., How much fluid released during the formation of the silicious magma in the upper crust? JpGU, 2024, Chiba, Oral.

Simonov V., Kotov A., Kotlyarov A., "Conditions of the ignimbrite formations of the Khangar volcano (Kamchatka peninsula)". JpGU, 2024, Chiba, Oral.

Kotov A., Okumura S., Shimizu K., Miyagi I., Uno M., Tsuchiya N., Agroli G., "Magma formation and water budget of the Naruko caldera, NE Honshu". Water-Rock Interaction WRI-17, Sendai 2023, Poster 

Kotov A., Smirnov S., Nizametdinov I., Uno M., Tsuchiya N., "Partial melting under shallow-crustal conditions: a study of the Pleistocene caldera eruption of Mendeleev volcano, southern Kuril Island Arc". Water-Rock Interaction WRI-17, Sendai 2023, Oral 

Kotov A., Okumura S., Shimizu K., Uno M., Miyagi I., Tsuchiya N., Magma formation and water excess beneath Naruko caldera, NE Honshu, JpGU, 2023, Chiba, Poster.

Kotov A., Okumura S., Shimizu K., Miyagi I., Uno M., Tsuchiya N., Magma evolution and estimation of fluid amount from melt inclusion studies and numerical modelling in Naruko caldera, NE Japan., IAVCEI Scientific Assembly 2023, Rotorua, New Zealand, Poster.

Kotov A., Smirnov S., Nizametdinov I., Uno M., Tsuchiya N., Evolution of the dacitic magma chamber of the Pleistocene caldera eruption of the Mendeleev volcano (Kunashir Island, Southern Kurils)., Russian Conference on Thermobarogeochemistry 2022, Novosibirsk, Russia. Virtual, Oral.

Kotov A., Okumura S., Shimizu K., Miyagi I., Uno M., Tsuchiya N., Natural and numerical considerations of water budget of the caldera-forming magmas in Naruko volcano, Northeast Japan., Annual Meeting of Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences (JAMS), 2022, Niigata, Oral.

Kotov A., Shimizu K., Okumura S., Uno M., Tsuchiya N., Accumulation of water in the caldera-forming magmas of the Naruko volcano, JpGU, 2022, Chiba, Oral.

Kotov A, Smirnov S., Maksimovich I., Uno M., Nizametdinov I., Tsuchiya N., Petrogenesis of Mendeleev Volcano Dacitic Magmas (Kunashir Island, Southern Kurils), American Geophysical Union (AGU-2021), Virtual, Oral.

Kotov A., Smirnov S, Tsuchiya N, Uno M, Petrology of pumice stone in the 39ka caldera-forming eruption of Mendeleev volcano (Kunashir Island), Annual Meeting of Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences (JAMS), Virtual, Oral.

Kotov A., Smirnov S., Tsuchiya N., Uno M., Behavior of volatile components in the magmatic system of Mendeleev volcano (Kunashir Island), Geothermal Volcanology Workshop, 2021, Virtual, Oral.

Kotov A., Smirnov S., Tsuchiya N., Uno M., Evolution of the magmatic-hydrothermal system of Mendeleev volcano (Kunashir Island), Japan Geoscience Union Meeting, June 2021, Online, Oral.

Kotov A., Smirnov S., Nizametdinov I., Maksimovich I., The first results of studying dacite pumice of the Late Pleistocene caldera eruption of Mendeleev volcano (Kunashir Island), XXXI conference "Actual problems of geology, geophysics and ecology", October 2020, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

Kotov A., Sekisova V., Mokrushina O., Kozlov E., Fomina E., Fluid inclusions in graphite-bearing quartzolithes from the Lovozero region (Kola peninsula, Russia). XXX conference "Actual problems of geology, geophysics and ecology", October 2019, Apatity, Russia.

Kotov A., Smirnov S., Maksimovich I., Timina T., The behaviour of volatile components (S, F, Cl) in dacitic magma of a large caldera eruption of the Vetrovoy Isthmus (Southern Kuriles) according to the results of the study of apatites, The 10th international workshop on the Japan- Kurile-Kamchatka-Aleutian volcanic arcs (JKASP-2018), August 20th -26th, 2018, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

Kotov A., Smirnov S., Maksimovich I., Behavior of water and fluid regime variations in the chamber of dacitic magma of the caldera eruption of the Vetrovoy Isthmus (Iturup island), XVIII All-Russian Conference on Thermobarogeochemistry, September 2018, Moscow, Russia.

Kotov A., Smirnov S., Maksimovich I., Water in melt inclusions from phenocrysts of dacitic pumice at the Vetrovoy Isthmus (Iturup Island), IX conference « Petrology of magmatic and metamorphic complexes», November 2017, Tomsk, Russia.