This article examines the hypothetical scenario of a full-scale nuclear war and assesses the potential of various countries to survive under conditions of global catastrophe. Based on analysis of scientific research and expert assessments, the key factors determining a nation's and its population's ability to endure a nuclear conflict and subsequent nuclear winter are reconstructed. Particular attention is devoted to researchers' conclusions that only a limited number of countries, primarily located in the Southern Hemisphere, possess the necessary conditions for maintaining agricultural production and social stability in the post-apocalyptic period.

PALEOPHENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE MODERN AND ANCIENT POPULATION OF CHUKOTKA

LATTICE FIGURES ON MOUNT KALBAK-TASH (GORNY ALTAI)

"TECHNICAL ESCHATOLOGY" IN THE MODERN FOLK ORTHODOX AND OLD BELIEVER TRADITIONS OF SIBERIA

PALEOGENETIC STUDY OF THE ANCIENT POPULATION OF GORNY ALTAI

COSMOGONIC PLOTS "THE DIVER BEHIND THE EARTH" AND "PEOPLE COMING OUT OF THE EARTH" (On the heterogeneous origins of American Indians)

PETROGLYPHS OF UKOK

THE STORY OF HERODOTUS AND RITUAL VESSELS OF ANCIENT NOMADS

SHAMAN BURIAL RITES IN THE BAIKAL REGION (OLKHON DISTRICT, IRKUTSK REGION) BASED ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC DATA

INSTITUTE OF ARCHEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY SB RAS: MAIN RESULTS OF SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY IN THE FIELD OF ARCHEOLOGY

TRADITIONAL IDEAS OF THE KHAKASS PEOPLE ABOUT THE SOUL

ANCIENT TURKIC STATUES: THE EMBODIMENT OF EPIC HEROES OR WARRIORS-ANCESTORS?

TO A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE INFORMATIVE VALUE OF PETROGLYPHS AND METHODS OF THEIR STUDY

MYTHS AND RITUALS CAPTURED IN THE ALTAI PETROGLYPHS