ALEXEY S. TESAKOV

Head of the Laboratory of Quaternary Stratigraphy, Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Scientific field: Fossil small mammals and Late Miocene and Plio-Pleistocene continental biostratigraphy of Eastern Europe. Evolution of voles.
Russian version

PUBLICATIONS:

1990-1992

• Vangengeim E.A., Pevzner M.A., Tesakov A.S. 1990. Magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic researches in the type area of the Psekups faunistic complex. Bulluten Komissii po Izucheniyu Chetvertichnogo Perioda N 59, p. 81-93.
  
• Vangengeim E.A., Pevzner M.A., Tesakov A.S. 1990. Psekups faunistic complex. Bulletin of Natural History Society of Moscow, ser. geol., v. 65, N 3, p.134.
  
• Vangengeim E.A., Pevzner M.A., Tesakov A.S. 1991. Position of the Taman faunistic complex within stratigraphic and magnetostratigraphic scales. Bulluten Komissii po Izucheniyu Chetvertichnogo Perioda, N 60, p. 41-52.  Text.
• Tesakov A.S. 1991. First find of Mimomys pitymyoides (Mammalia, Rodentia) in the territory of the USSR. Bulletin of Natural History Society of Moscow, div. geol., v. 66, N4, p.134.
  
• Tesakov A.S., Alexeev A.S. 1992. Myriapod-like arthropodes in the lower Devonian of the central Khazakhstan. Paleontologicheskyi Zhurnal, N 3, 1992, p. 15-19. Text.
• Tesakov A.S., Maschenko E.N. 1992. The first reliably identified macaque (Cercopythecidae, Primates) from the Pliocene of the Ukraine. Paleontologicheskyi Zhurnal, 26(4), 1992, p. 55-61. Text.

1993

• Tesakov A.S. 1993. Evolution of Borsodia (Arvicolidae, Mammalia) in the Villanyian and in the Early Biharian. Quaternary International, vol. 19, pp. 41-45. Abstract. Text.
• Tesakov A.S., Gablina S.S., Simakova A.N., Ratnikov V.Yu. 1993. Late Holocene locality of fauna and flora near Luchinskoe village in the Istra district of Moscow region. Bull. of Regional Interministry Stratigraphic Commission on Central and South of Russian Plain, 1993, N 2, pp. 174 - 178.
  
• Tesakov A.S., Maschenko E.N., Gablina S.S., Fillipova N.Yu. 1993. On geology and biostratigraphy of the Sevsk Mammoth Site. Bull. of Regional Interministry Stratigraphic Commission on Central and South of Russian Plain, N 2, pp. 173 - 174.
  
• Tesakov A.S. 1993. Small Mammals of the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene from the South of Eastern Europe. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation, vol. 1, N 3, 92-96. Abstract.

1994

• Tesakov A.S. New data on geology and small mammals of the Kryzhanovka section. Abstracts of all-Russia Conference on Study of Quaternary, Moscow, 1994, p. 229.
• Vangengeim E.A., Pevzner M.A., Tesakov A.S. Changes of mammalian fauna and paleoclimate at the Turolian-Ruscinian boundary. Voprosy teriologii. Paleoteriologiya (Paleotheriology). Moscow. Nauka. 1994. pp. 262-267.
• Tesakov A.S. First find of Mimomys pitymyoides (Mammalia, Rodentia) in the Northern Caucasus and its stratigraphic significance. Byull. Komis. Izuch. Chetvert. Perioda, N 61, 1994, pp. 43-46. Text.

1995

• Vangengeim E.A., Pevzner M.A., Tesakov A.S. Chronological relationships of Pliocene deposits in fluviatile plains between Prut and Southern Bug Rivers, Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation, 1995, 3, N 1, pp. 54 - 64. Abstract. Text.
• Tesakov A.S. Evolution of small mammal communities from the south of Eastern Europe near the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 1995, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 121 - 127. Abstract.

1996

• Pevzner M.A., Vangengeim E.A., Vislobokova I.A., Sotnikova M.V., Tesakov A.S. Ruscinian from the territory of the former Soviet Union. Newsl. Stratigraphy, 1996, 33(2), pp. 77-97. Abstract.
• Tesakov A.S. Evolution of bank voles (Clethrionomys, Arvicolinae) in late Pliocene and early Pleistocene of Eastern Europe. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 1996, vol. 39, 1, pp. 541-547. Abstract. Text.
• Vangengeim E.A., Pevzner M.A., Tesakov A.S. Paleogeographic environment in the north-western margin of the Black Sea, in early Pliocene, Stratigraphy. Geological Correlation, 1996, v.4, N2, pp. 106-109. Text.

1997

• W. von Koenigswald, Tesakov A.S. The evolution of the schmelzmuster of Lagurini (Arvicolinae, Rodentia), Palaeontographica A, 1997, 245, 1-6, pp. 45-61. Abstract. Text.
• Averianov A.O., Tesakov A.S. Evolutionary trends in Mio-Pliocene Leporinae, based on Trischizolagus (Mammalia, Lagomorpha). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift, Bd. 71, Hf. 1/2. P.145-153, 1997. Abstract. Text.

1998

• Tesakov A.S. Voles of the Tegelen fauna, Mededelingen Nederlands Instituut voor Toegepaste Geowetenschappen TNO, 60, 71-134, 1998. Abstract.  Text.
• van Kolfschoten T. & Tesakov A.S. The early Pleistocene Mimomys hordijki sp. nov. from the Zuurland borehole (The Netherlands). Mededelingen Nederlands Instituut voor Toegepaste Geowetenschappen TNO, 63, pp. 187-192. Abstract. Text.
• Kazantseva N.E. & Tesakov A.S. Evolution of Plio-Pleistocene voles with the special reference to to demographic features of fossil assemblages.Mededelingen Nederlands Instituut voor Toegepaste Geowetenschappen TNO, 60, 555-564, 1998. Text. Abstract.
• The Early Evolution of Microtus. Eds. Robert Martin & Alexey Tesakov. Paludicola (Scientific scontributions of the Rochester Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology) Spec.issue., vol.2, no.1, 1998.
• Martin R.A.& Tesakov A.S. Introductory remarks: Does Allophaiomys exist? Paludicola, vol.2, no.1, pp. 1-7, 1998. Abstract. Text
• Tesakov A.S. Early stage of Allophaiomys evolution in eastern Europe. Paludicola, vol.2, no.1, pp. 98-105, 1998. Abstract.
• Pevzner M.A., Tesakov A.S., Vangengem E.A. The position of the Tizdar Locality (Taman Peninsula, Russia) in the magnetochronological scale. Paludicola, vol.2, no.1, pp. 95-97, 1998. Abstract.
• Abstracts at the All-Russia Quaternary Conference, St.-Petersburg, September, 1998.
• Tesakov A.S., Alekseev A.S. 1998. [Maldybulakia] A new name for the genus Lophodesmus Tesakov & Alekseev, 1992 (Arthropoda). Paleontological Journal. 32(1):104. Text.
• Averianov A.O., Tesakov A.S. A milk tooth of Pliocene otter. Lutreola, 1996, no.7, pp.21-22, Moscow, 1998. Text.
• Averianov A.O., Tesakov A.S. The Lagomorpha (Mammalia) from the Early Pliocene Kosyakino Locality of the Northern Caucasus.Paleontological Journal. 1998, no.3, pp.305. Abstract.

1999

• Findings of the oldest rootless voles Allophaiomys and Prolagurus in Eastern Europe. Transactions (Doklady) of the Russian Academy of Sciences /Earth Science Section, Vol. 366, No. 4, 1999, p. 452. (Tesakov, A. S., Vangengeim, E.A., Pevzner, M.A.) Abstract [in Russian], Text [in Russian]

2000

• Tesakov A.S. Some comments on small mammal fauna of Domashkinskie Vershiny (collection of L.P.Alexandrova, 1973). In: Yakhemovitch V.L., Yakovlev A.G. (Eds.): Domashkinskie Vershiny, reference section of Pliocene and Pleistocene. Gilem, Ufa. pp.70-71, 84 (in Russian). Abstract.

2001

• Tesakov A.S. 2001. New data on Plio-Pleistocene jerboas of the genus Plioscirtopoda from Eastern Europe (Mammalia, Dipodidae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 9, 237-244. Abstract. Text.
• Baigusheva V.S., Titov V.V., Tesakov A.S. 2001. The sequence of Plio-Pleistocene mammal faunas from the south Russian Plain (the Azov Region). Boll. Soc. Paleontol. Italiana, v.40, 2, pp.133-138. Abstract.
• Pevzner M. A.,Vangengeim E.A., Tesakov A.S. 2001. Quaternary zonal subdivision of Eastern Europe based on vole evolution. Boll. Soc. Paleontol. Italiana, v.40, n. 2, pp. 269-274. Abstract. Text
  
• Tesakov A.S., Vangengeim E.A., Pevzner M.A. 2001. Position of reference mammal localities of the Lower Villafranchian in the magnetochronological time scale // Papers in paleomammalogy honouring Prof.Dr. Oldrich Fejfar (Horacek I., Mlikovsky J., eds.), Lynx (Praha) N.S., 32, pp. 363-369. Abstract link Text.
• Pevzner M.A., Vangengeim E.A., Tesakov A.S. 2001. The age of the Ruscinian lower boundary // Papers in paleomammalogy honouring Prof.Dr. Oldrich Fejfar (Horacek I., Mlikovsky J., eds.), Lynx (Praha) N.S. 32, pp. 295-300. Abstract link Text.

2002

• Author's abridged version of Thesis Cand.Geol.-Min.Sci. Biostratigraphy of Middle Pliocene - Eopleistocene of south part of Eastern Europe (based on small mammals). (In Russian).
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• Tesakov A.S., Averianov A.O. Prolagus (Lagomorpha, Prolagidae) from the Pliocene of Moldova and Ukraine. Paleonotological Journal, v.36, n.1, 80-86. Abstract. Text.

2003

• Nikolsky P.A., Tesakov A.S. 2003. Sarkel, a new locality of Tamanian theriofauna in the lower Don River area. In: Theriofauna of Russia and adjacent areas. VII Congress of the Theriological Society. Volume of abstracts. p.236, Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow. Abstract.
• Tesakov A.S., Titov V.V. 2003. New Late Miocene theriofauna from the Morskaya 2 locality. In: Theriofauna of Russia and adjacent areas. VII Congress of the Theriological Society. Volume of abstracts. p.347-348, Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow. Abstract.
• Tesakov A.S., Dodonov A.E., Titov V.V., Trubikhin V.M. 2003. Geological settings of small mammal faunas in the east of the Sea of Azov. In: Dodonov A.E. , Velichko A.A. (Eds.), Loess and Paleoenvironment, 60-61; Moscow (Geos). Abstract.
• Tesakov A.S. 2003. Early evolutionary stages of pytimyoid mimomyine voles (Pitymimomys, Arvicolinae, Cricetidae) from Early Villanyian of Eastern Europe. Coloquios de Paleontologia. vol.ext. 1, 659-668. Abstract. Text.
• Lopatin A.V., Tesakov A.S., Titov V.V. 2003. Late Miocene - early Pliocene porcupines (Rodentia, Hystricidae) from south European Russia. Russian Journal of Theriology, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 26-32. Abstract. Text
• Tesakov A.S. 2003. Red-backed voles (Clethrionomys) in Plio-Pleistocene of Europe. In: Averianov, A.O. & Abramson, Natalia [Eds.]: Systematics, phylogeny and paleontology of small mammals. 209-210. Abstract.

2004

• Tesakov A.S. 2004. Biostratigraphy of Middle Pliocene -- Eopleistocene of Eastern Europe (based on small mammals). Moscow: Nauka, 247 p. Abstract. Text. View.
• Tesakov A.S. 2004. Early Pliocene arvicolid faunas from Eastern Europe. In: Maul, L.C., Kahlke, R.-D. (Eds.), 18th International Senckenberg Conference, VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar—‘‘Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations’’. Weimar (Germany), 25th–30th April, 2004. Conference Volume. Terra Nostra 2004 (2), p. Abstract.
• Tesakov A.S., Vangengeim E.A., Pevzner M.A. 2004. Zonal subdivision of continental deposits of Middle-Late Pliocene of East Europe (based on small mammals). In: Maul, L.C., Kahlke, R.-D. (Eds.), 18th International Senckenberg Conference, VI International Palaeontological Colloquium in Weimar—‘‘Late Neogene and Quaternary biodiversity and evolution: Regional developments and interregional correlations’’. Weimar (Germany), 25th–30th April, 2004. Conference Volume. Terra Nostra, 2, p. Abstract.
• Kirillova I.V., Tesakov A.S. 2004. Water vole (Arvicola, Arvicolinae, Rodentia) from the Khazar deposits of the Lower Volga. In: Ecology of Anthropogene and Contemporaneity: Nature and Man. S.Petersburg, Humanistica. 138-139. Text.
  
• Lopatin A.V., Tesakov A.S. The fossil shrew Cretasorex arkhangelskyi Nessov et Gureev, 1981 from Uzbekistan - the systematic position among Soricidae, taxonomic status and geological age. Russian Journal of Theriology, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 5-8. Abstract. Text.
• Kuznetsova T.V., Tesakov A.S. 2004. New data on Pleistocene fauna of small mammals from the northeastern coast of the Laptev Sea (Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island and Bykovsky Peninsula). In: Nikolsky P.A. & Pitulko V.V. (eds.) Natural history of the Russian East Arctics in Pleistocene and Holocene. Moscow: Geos, pp. 27-31. Abstract. Text.

2005

• Vangengeim E.A., Pevzner M.A., Tesakov A.S. 2005. Ruscinian and Lower Villafranchian: age of boundaries and position in magnetochronological scale. Stratigraphy. Geological Correlation, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 530-546. Text.
  
• Величко А.А., Морозова Т.Д., Борисова О.К., Тимирева С.Н., Семенов В.В., Кононов Ю.М., Титов В.В., Тесаков А.С., Константинов Е.А., Курбанов Р.Н. Становление зоны степей юга России (по материалам строения лессово-почвенной формации Доно-Азовского региона) // Доклады академии наук, 2012. Т. 445. № 4. С. 464–467. Abstract. Text.
• Tesakov A.S., Pismenskaya G.A. Recent data on fossil mammals from Upper Pliocene deposits of the eastern Stavropol Region. In: Podobina V.M. (ed.) Evlution of life on the Earth. Tomsk: Tomsk State University, 309-314. Abstract. Text.
• Tesakov A.S. 2005. Pliocene voles (Pliomys, Arvicolinae, Rodentia) from Odessa Catacombs. Russian Journal of Theriology, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 123-135. Abstract. Text.

2006

• The Sevsk woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) site in Russia: Taphonomic, biological and behavioral interpretations. Quaternary International, vols. 142-143, pp. 147-165. (Maschenko E.N., Gablina S.S., Tesakov A.S., Simakova A.N.) Abstract.
• The first record of Late Miocene bat from European Russia. Acta zoologica cracoviensia, vol. 49A, nos. 1-2, pp. 125-133. (Rossina V.V., Kruskop S.V., Tesakov A.S., Titov V.V.) Abstract. Text.
• Early Middle Pleistocene red-backed voles (Clethrionomys) from Kozi Grzbiet (Poland) and their significance for the reconstruction of the phylogeny of European bank voles. In: Alexeeva N.V, Erbajeva M.A., Mironov N.G. (Eds.) Stratigraphy, paleontology and paleoenvironment of Pliocene-Pleistocene of Transbaikalia and interregional correlations. Abstracts. Ulan-Ude, p.89 (Tesakov A.S., Nadachowski A.)
• Late Miocene and Pliocene large land mammals and climatic changes in Eurasia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 238, pp. 219-227. (Fortelius M., Eronen J., Liu L., Pushkina D., Tesakov A., Vislobokova I., Zhang Z.Q.)
• First Representative Vertebrate Fauna of Late Miocene in the South of the European Russia. Doklady Biological Sciences. vol. 411, no. 5, pp. 508-509. (Titov V.V., Tesakov A.S., Danilov I.G., Danukalova G.A., Maschenko E.N., Panteleev A.V., Sotnikova M.V., Sychevskaya E.K.)
• New form of rhizodont voles (Rodentia, Arvicolinae, Clethrionomyini) from Pleistocene of Central Altai (Russia). Russian Journal of Theriology, 5 (2), 79-83 (Serdyuk, N.V. & Tesakov, A.S.)
• Age of the Vallesian Lower Boundary (Continental Miocene of Europe). Stratigraphy. Geological Correlation. vol. 14, no. 6, 655-667 (Vangengeim E.A., Lungu A.N., Tesakov A.S.) Abstract. Text
  

• Tesakov A.S., Dodonov A.E., Titov V.V., Trubikhin V.M. Plio-Pleistocene geological record and small mammal faunas, eastern shore of the Azov Sea, Southern European Russia. Quaternary International. 160, 1, 57-69. Abstract. Text.
• Dodonov A.E., Tesakov A.S., Titov V.V., Inozemtsev S.A., Simakova A.N., Nikolsky P.A., Trubikhin V.M. New data on the stratigraphy of Pliocene-Quaternary deposits of lower Don area: sections along coasts of Tsymla Reservoir. In: Yu.B.Gladenkov (ed.) Geological events of Neogene and Quaternary of Russia: modern stratigraphic schemes and paleogeographic reconstructions. Geos, Moscow, pp. 43-53 (in Russian).
• Tesakov A.S. Recent discussions on the Neogene-Quaternary boundary. In: Yu.B.Gladenkov (ed.) Geological events of Neogene and Quaternary of Russia: modern stratigraphic schemes and paleogeographic reconstructions. Geos, Moscow, pp. 90-95 (in Russian).
• Lebedev V.S., Bannikova A.A., Tesakov A.S., Abramson N.I. Molecular phylogeny of the genus Alticola (Cricetidae, Rodentia): evidence for parallel adaptive evolution. Hystrix The Italian Journal of Mammology. Abstracts of the V European Congress of Mammology. Siena, Italy. 21-26 September, 2007. Vol. 1: p.15. Text.
• Kalthoff D., Mörs T., Tesakov A.S. Late Pleistocene small mammals from the Wannenköpfe volcanoes (Neuwied Basin, western Germany) with remarks on the stratigraphic range of Arvicola terrestris. Geobios, 40, 5, pp. 609–623. Abstract.
• Tesakov A.S., Vangengeim E.A., Pevzner M.A. Arvicolid zonation of continental Pliocene deposits of East Europe. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 259: 229 – 236. Abstract.
• Dodonov A.E., Sotnikova M.V., Tesakov A.S. Upper Pliocene and Pleistocene bio-climatic units of south Russia in the context of Quaternary subdivision. Abstracts of the  XVII INQUA Congress, Cairns, Australia. Quaternary International. 167–168, p. 100.
• Lebedev V.S., Bannikova A.A., Tesakov A.S., Abramson N.I. Molecular phylogeny of the genus Alticola (Cricetidae, Rodentia) as inferred from the sequence of the cytochrome b gene. Zoologica Scripta, 36, 6, pp. 547-563. Abstract.
• Martin R.A., Tesakov A.S., Agusti J., Marcolini F. Preliminary Examination of Select Arvicolid Rodent Sequences: Recognizing Global and Regional Patterns. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, suppl. no. 3, 112A-113A. Abstract.

• Vangengeim E.A., Tesakov A.S. Late Sarmatian Mammal Localities of the Eastern Paratethys: Stratigraphic Position, Magnetochronology, and Correlation with the European Continental Scale. Stratigraphy. Geological Correlation. vol. 16, no. 1, 92-103.
  
• Vangengeim E.A., Tesakov A.S. Maeotian Mammalian Localities of Eastern Paratethys: Magnetochronology and Position in European Continental Scales. Stratigraphy. Geological Correlation. vol. 16, no. 4, 437–450.
• Kirillova I.V., Tesakov A.S. New mammalian elements of the Ice Age assemblage on the Sakhalin Island. Mammal Study 33: 87–92. Text.
• Tesakov A.S., Vangengeim E.A. Plio-Pleistocene mammalian biochronology of Russia: theory and practice. Abstracts of the 33 International Geological Congress. Oslo, Norway. August 6-14, 2008. Text.
• Dodonov A.E., Sotnikova M.V., Tesakov A.S., Titov V.V. Shchelinski V.E. Azovian Region in the system of Black Sea - Mediterranean corridor during Quaternary: Stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental aspects. Abstracts of the 33 International Geological Congress. Oslo, Norway. August 6-14, 2008. Text.
• Tesakov A.S., Borodin A.V. Early Pleistocene red-backed voles (Clethrionomys, Arvicolinae, Rodentia) in lowlands of Western Siberia and East Europe. 11th International Conference on Rodent Biology, Rodens et Spatium. Myshkin Russia 24-28 July, 2008, p. 148.
  
• The Taman fauna type locality of Sinyaya Balka: new data on its geology and biostratigraphy. Early Paleolithic of Eurasia: new discoveries. International Conference. Krasnodar – Temriuk, 1–6 September 2008, Rostov-on-Don. pp. 135-138. (Dodonov A.E., Tesakov A.S., Simakova A.N.) Text.
• Paleomagnetism of bone-bearing deposits of the site Sinyaya Balka/Bogatyri. Early Paleolithic of Eurasia: new discoveries. International Conference. Krasnodar – Temriuk, 1–6 September 2008, Rostov-on-Don. pp. 138-139. (Dodonov A.E., Trubikhin V.M., Tesakov A.S.) Text.
• Early Paleolithic sites on the Taman Peninsula (southern Azov Sea Region). Early Paleolithic of Eurasia: new discoveries. International Conference. Krasnodar – Temriuk, 1–6 September 2008, Rostov-on-Don. pp. 109-114. (Shchelinsky V.E., Dodonov A.E., Baigusheva V.S., Kulakov S.A., Simakova A.N., Tesakov A.S., Titov V.V.) Text.
• Pleistocene chronostratigraphy and paleogeography in the south of the East European plain, with particular reference to the loess-soil formations studied in the eastern part of the Azov Sea Region. Early Paleolithic of Eurasia: new discoveries. International Conference. Krasnodar – Temriuk, 1–6 September 2008, Rostov-on-Don. pp. 187-188. (Velichko A.A., Morozova T.D., Timireva S.N., Nechaev V.P., Borisova O.K., Tesakov A.S., Titov V.V., Semenov V.V., Kononov Yu.M.)
  
• Early Palaeolithic sites on the Taman Peninsula (Southern Azov Sea Region). International conference "The oldest human expansions in Eurasia. Favouring and limiting factors", Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 26, 27, 28 novembre, 2008, p. 33. (Shchelinsky V.E., Dodonov A.E.,  Baigusheva V.S., Kulakov S.A., Simakova A.N., Tesakov A.S., Titov V.V.).
• Early Pleistocene mammalian fauna of Sarkel (Lower Don River area, Russia): mole voles (Ellobiusini, Rodentia). Russian Journal of Theriology, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 81-88. Text.

• Velichko A.A., Catto N.R., Kononov M.Y, Morozova T.D., Novenko E.Yu., Panin P.G., Ryskov G.Ya., Semenov V.V., Timireva S.N., Titov V.V. and Tesakov A.S. 2009. Progressively cooler, drier interglacials in southern Russia through the Quaternary: Evidence from the Sea of Azov region. Quaternary International, 198, 1-2. (Loess in the Danube Region and Surrounding Loess Provinces: The Marsigli Memorial Volume). P. 204-219.
  
• Tesakov A.S., Geraads D. 2009. Mole voles (Ellobiusini, Arvicolinae) as markers of Early Pleistocen Eurasian-African biotic connections. The Quaternary of southern Spain: a bridge between Africa and the Alpine domain. Abstr. of 2009 annual meeting SEQS. Sept. 28 - Oct. 3, 2009, Orce and Lucena, Spain. 2009. P. 52-53. Abstract.
• Abramson N.I., Lebedev V.S., Tesakov A.S., Bannikova A.A. 2009. Supraspecies relationships in the subfamily Arvicolinae (Rodentia, Cricetidae): an unexpected result of nuclear gene analysis. Molecular Biology, Vol. 43, No. 5, 834-846. Abstract.
• Abramson N.I., Lebedev V.S., Bannikova A.A., Tesakov A.S. 2009. Radiation events in the subfamily Arvicolinae (Rodentia): Evidence from nuclear genes. Doklady Biological Sciences. V.428. N.1. P.458-461.
  
• Abramson N.I., Kostygov A.Yu., Lebedev V.S., Tesakov A.S., Bannikova A.A. 2009. Supraspecies phylogenetic relationships in the subfamily Arvicolinae (voles and lemmings): nuclear versus mitochondrial genes. Could hard polytomies be resolved? In: Modern achievements in population, evolutionary and ecological genetics (MAPEEG – 2009). - Vladivostok. p. 8.

• Bannikova A.A., Lebedev V.S., Lissovsky A.A, Matrosova V., Abramson N.I., Obolenskaya E.V., Tesakov A.S. 2010. Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the Asian lineage of vole genus Microtus (Rodentia: Arvicolinae) inferredfrom mitochondrial cytochrome b sequence. Biological Journal of of the Linnean Society, 99, 595–613. Abstract.
• Shchelinsky V.E., Dodonov A.E., Baigusheva V.S., Kulakov S.A., Simakova A.N., Tesakov A.S., Titov V.V. Early Palaeolithic sites on the Taman Peninsula (Southern Azov Sea region, Russia): Bogatyri/Sinyaya Balka and Rodniki. Quaternary International. V. 223-224, pp. 28-35. Abstract.
• Tesakov A.S. 2010. New small mammal faunas of Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene from northern Caucasus and lower Don area. In: V.V. Titov, A.S.Tesakov (Eds.) Quaternary Stratigraphy and paleontology of the southern Russia. Volume of abstracts. 2010 annual meeting of INQUA-SEQS. Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 21-26, 2010. p. 168. Text.
• Tesakov A.S., Simakova A.N., Inozemtsev S.A., Titov V.V. 2010. Gorkaya Balka: a reference Quaternary section in the North Caucasus (Krasnodar Region, Russia). In: V.V. Titov, A.S.Tesakov (Eds.) Quaternary Stratigraphy and paleontology of the southern Russia. Volume of abstracts. 2010 annual meeting of INQUA-SEQS. Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 21-26, 2010. p. 169-170. Text.
• Shchelinsky V.E., Tesakov A.S., Titov V.V. 2010. Early Paleolithic sites in the Azov Sea region: stratigraphic position, stone associations, and new discoveries. In: V.V. Titov, A.S.Tesakov (Eds.) Quaternary Stratigraphy and paleontology of the southern Russia. Volume of abstracts. 2010 annual meeting of INQUA-SEQS. Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 21-26, 2010. p. 169-170. Text.
• Inozemtsev S.A., Tesakov A.S., Targulian V.A., Sedov S., Shorkunov I. 2010. Development of paleopedogenesis in early Pleistocene in territory of the Ciscaucasia (Temizhbeksky section, middle course of the Kuban River). In: V.V. Titov, A.S.Tesakov (Eds.) Quaternary Stratigraphy and paleontology of the southern Russia. Volume of abstracts. 2010 annual meeting of INQUA-SEQS. Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 21-26, 2010. p. 59-60. Text.
• van Kolfschoten T., Tesakov A.S. 2010. Biostratigraphy of arvicoline assemblages from the Zuurland (the Netherlands) drilling project. In: V.V. Titov, A.S.Tesakov (Eds.) Quaternary Stratigraphy and paleontology of the southern Russia. Volume of abstracts. 2010 annual meeting of INQUA-SEQS. Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 21-26, 2010. p. 75. Text.

• Tesakov A.S., Lebedev V.S., Bannikova A.A., Abramson N.I. 2010 (2011). Clethrionomys Tilesius, 1850 is the valid generic name for red-backed voles and Myodes Pallas, 1811 is a junior synonym of Lemmus Link, 1795. Russian Journal of Theriology, 2010 (2011), 9 (2), 83-86. Abstract. Text.
• Tracing long lineages of arvicolids: myths, problems, and hypotheses. In:  Abstracts of the International colloquim in honour of Prof. Dr. Oldrich Fejfar D.Sc. on occasion of his 80th birthday: Late Cenozoic mammals: fossil record, biostratigraphy, paleoecology. May 16-19, 2011. Prague.
• Tesakov A.S., van Kolfschoten T. 2011. The Early Pleistocene Mimomys hordijki (Arvicolinae, Rodentia) from Europe and the origin of modern neartctic sagebrush voles (Lemmiscus). Palaeontologia Electronica, 14 (3), 1-11. Abstract. Text.
• Baygusheva V.S., Vangengeim E.A., Tesakov A.S., Titov V.V., Shvyreva A.K. 2011. Comments on the article by E.N. Mashchenko “Evolution of the elephants of the mammoth lineage in the Northern Caucasus (Russia) in the Pliocene and Pleistocene”. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg, Vol. 315, No. 4, pp. 483-493 [in Russian, English abstract]. Abstract.

• Velichko A.A., Morozova T.D., Borisova O.K., Timireva S.N., Semenov V.V., Kononov Yu.M.,  Titov V.V., Tesakov A.S., Konstantinov E.A., Kurbanov R.N. 2012. Development of the Steppe Zone in Southern Russia Based on the Reconstruction from the LoessSoil Formation in the Don–Azov Region // Doklady Earth Sciences, 2012, Vol. 445, Part 2, pp. 999–1002.
• Lopatin A.V., Averianov A.O., Tesakov A.S., Agadjanian A.K. 2012. Fossil mammals (paleotheriology). IX Congress of the Russian Theriological Society "Theriofauna of Russia and adjacent areas", Moscow, 2011.P. 73-74.  Text.

• Tesakov A.S., Titov V.V., Simakova A.N. 2013. Quaternary interconnections in Eurasia: focus on Eastern Europe. Quternary International. 284, P.1-2.
• Vangengeim E.A., Tesakov A.S. 2013. Late Miocene mammal localities of Eastern Europe and Western Asia: toward biostratigraphic synthesis. In Fossil Mammals of Asia: Neogene Biostratigraphy and Chronology, ed. X. Wang, L. J. Flynn, and M. Fortelius. New York: Columbia University Press. P.519-535. Text.
• Titov V.V., Tesakov A.S. 2013. Late Miocene (Turolian) vertebrate faunas of the southern European Russia. In Fossil Mammals of Asia: Neogene Biostratigraphy and Chronology, ed. X. Wang, L. J. Flynn, and M. Fortelius. New York: Columbia University Press. P.536-543. Text.
• Vislobokova I., Tesakov A. 2013. Early and Middle Pleistocene of Northern Eurasia. In: Elias S.A. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, vol. 4, pp. 605-614. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
• Mayda S., Göktaş F., Tesakov A.S., Kaya T., Titov V., Halaçlar H. 2013. A New Middle Miocene Mammalian Fauna from Afyon-Gebeceler (Western Turkey). 66th Geological Congress of Turkey, 1-5 April 2013, Ankara. p.470-471.
• Tesakov A.S. 2013. Murids of the genus Hansdebruijnia in Late Miocene of the Peri-Black Sea. Neogene to Quaternary Geological Evolution of Mediterranean, Paratethys and Black Sea. RCMNS 14th  Congress. 8-12 September 2013 Istambul, Turkey. p.134.
• Titov V.V., Tesakov A.S., Syromyatnikova E.V., Simakova A.N., Sotnikova M.V., Frolov P.D. 2013. Late Miocene terrestrial biotic record in the Northern Cuacasus. Neogene to Quaternary Geological Evolution of Mediterranean, Paratethys and Black Sea. RCMNS 14th  Congress. 8-12 September 2013 Istambul, Turkey. p.134.
• Syromyatnikova E.V., Danilov I.G., Titov V.V., Tesakov A.S. New data on the Neogene turtles of European Russia. Neogene to Quaternary Geological Evolution of Mediterranean, Paratethys and Black Sea. RCMNS 14th  Congress. 8-12 September 2013 Istambul, Turkey. p.138.
• Popov S.V., Filippova N.Yu., Golovina L.A.,  Goncharova I.A.,  Radionova E.P.,  Tesakov A.S.,  Trubikhin V.M. 2013.  Eastern Paratethys stratigraphic scale of Neogene:  Correlation possibilities. Neogene to Quaternary Geological Evolution of Mediterranean, Paratethys and Black Sea. RCMNS 14th  Congress. 8-12 September 2013 Istambul, Turkey. p.73.

• Baygusheva V.S., Titov V.V., Timonina G.I., Simakova A.N., Tesakov A.S., J. van der Plicht. 2014. Mass burial of Late Pleistocene bisons in the northeastern part of the Sea of Azov area (Port Katon, Rostov Region). Doklady Earth Sciences, Vol. 454, Part 2, pp. 140–142.
• V.G. Trifonov, D.M. Bachmanov, A.N. Simakova, Ya.I. Trikhunkov, O. Ali, A.S. Tesakov, E.V. Belyaeva, V.P. Lyubin, R.V. Veselovsky, A.-M. Al-Kafri. Dating and correlation of the Quaternary fluvial terraces in Syria, applied to tectonic deformation in the region. Quaternary International, 2014. vol.328-329, pp. 74-93.
  
• Nikolskiy P.A., Titov V.V., Tesakov A.S., Foronova I.V., Baygusheva V.S. 2014. Early Biharian Archidiskodon meridionalis (Nesti, 1825) from Sarkel (Lower Don area, southern European Russia) and associated small mammals. Scientific Annals, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. VIth International Conference on Mammoths and their Relatives, Grevena - Siatista. Special Volume 102. P. 142. Text.
• Mayda S., Titov V., Kaya T., Tesakov A., Halaclar K., Tan A., Alcicek M.C., Syromyatnikova E., Karakutuk S. Anancus in Turkey. Scientific Annals, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. VIth International Conference on Mammoths and their Relatives, Grevena - Siatista. Special Volume 102. P.127-128.
• Tesakov A.S., Shik S.M., Velichko A.A., Lavrushin Yu.A., Yanina T.A. 2014. New proposals on the Russian general stratigraphic scale of the Quaternary. Bull. Komiss. Izuch. Chetv. per. no. 73, pp. 13-18. Text.
• Baygusheva V.S., Titov V.V., Tesakov A.S., Syromyatnikova E.V., Kurshakov S.V., Frolov P.D. 2014. Middle Pleistocene fauna of Veshenskaya (middle Don River, Rostov Region, Russia). The Quaternary of the Urals: global trends and Pan-European Quaternary records: International conference INQUA-SEQS 2014 (Ekaterinburg, Russia, September 10–16, 2014). UrB RAS, Ekaterinburg, pp. 15-17. Text.
• Nikolskiy P.A., V.V. Titov, Tesakov A.S., Foronova I.V., Baygusheva V.S. Two early Biharian morphotypes of meridionaloid elephants, Archidiskodon meridionalis (Nesti, 1825), recovered from Sarkel (lower Don area, southern European Russia).The Quaternary of the Urals: global trends and Pan-European Quaternary records: International conference INQUA-SEQS 2014 (Ekaterinburg, Russia, September 10–16, 2014). UrB RAS, Ekaterinburg, pp. 108-110. Text.
• Trifonov V.G., Lyubin V.P., Belyaeva E.V., Lebedev V.A., Trikhunkov Ya.I., Tesakov A.S., Simakova A.N., Veselovsky R.V., Latyshev A.V., Meliksetian Kh., Presnyakov S.L., Ivanova T.P.,  Ozhereliev D.V., Bachmanov D.M., Artyushkov S.E., Lyapunov S.M. 2014. Early Pleistocene of north-west Armenia: stratigraphy, archaeology and tectonics. The Quaternary of the Urals: global trends and Pan-European Quaternary records: International conference INQUA-SEQS 2014 (Ekaterinburg, Russia, September 10–16, 2014). UrB RAS, Ekaterinburg, pp. 170-172. Text.
• A.N. Simakova, V.G. Trifonov, V.P. Lyubin, E.V. Belyaeva, V.A. Lebedev, Ya.I. Trikhunkov, A.S. Tesakov, R.V. Veselovsky, A.V. Latyshev, Kh. Meliksetian, S.L. Presnyakov, T.P. Ivanova, D.V. Ozhereliev, D.M. Bachmanov, S.E. Artyushkov, S.M. Lyapunov. Stratigraphy, Archeology, and Tectonics of the Early Pleistocene in NW Armenia. 8th International Symposium on Eastern Meditteranean Geology. 13-17 October, 2014. Mugla, Turkey.
  
• Syromyatnikova E.V., Tesakov A.S., Titov V.V. 2014. Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the Late Miocene Morskaya 2 fauna (Russia). 74th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Estrel Berlin, Germany. November 5 – 8, 2014. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2014, p. 238. Text.

• Hoek Ostende L.W. van den, Diepeveen F., Tesakov A., Saraç G., Mayhew D., Alçiçek M.C. 2015. On the brink: micromammals from the latest Villanyian from Biçakçi (Anatolia). Geological journal. Vol. 50, No. 3, P. 230–245. Text.
• Tesakov A.S., Lopatin A.S. 2015. First record of Mylagaulid rodents (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Miocene of Eastern Siberia (Olkhon Island, Baikal Lake, Irkutsk Region, Russia). Doklady Biological Sciences, 2015, Vol. 460, pp. 23–26. Text.
  
• Mayda S., Sotnikova M.V., Tesakov A.S., Tan A., Kaya T. 2015. Miocene-Pliocene transitional mammalian fauna of Develi (Turkey). 61th Annual Session of the Russian Paleontologica Society. April 13-17, 2015. Saint-Petersburg. Paleontological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences. pp. 182-183. Text.
• Hoek Ostende L.W. van den, Gardner J.D., van Bennekom L., Alçiçek M.C., Murray A., Wesselingh F.P., Alçiçek H., Tesakov A. 2015. Ericek, a new Pliocene vertebrate locality in the Çameli Basin (southwestern Anatolia, Turkey). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. Vol.95, No.3, P. 305–320.  Text.
• van Kolfschoten T., Tesakov A., Bell C.J. 2015. First European Phenacomys (Arvicolinae, Rodentia) and an integrated high-latitude Holarctic biota in the Early Pleistocene // SVP 75th Annual Meeting. Program and Abstracts. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, suppl. 2015, p. 229.
•  Syromyatnikova E., Tesakov A., Titov V. 2015. Preliminary report on herpetofauna from the Solnechnodolsk locality (late Miocene), Russia // SVP 75th Annual Meeting. Program and Abstracts. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, suppl. 2015, p. 221.
• Kirsty Penkman K., Preece R., Parfitt S., Meijer T., Limondon-Lozouet N., Tesakov A. 2015. EQUATE – Building a European Quatermary Aminostratigraphic Timescale // 5th Annual meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution. 10–12 September 2015. Proceedings of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution 4. London, United Kingdom. p. 175.
• Zastrozhnov A., Danukalova G., Golovachev M., Tesakov A., Titov V., Simakova A., Aleksandrova G., Osipova E., Yakovlev A., Fomin V., Guzhikov A. Kosika locality: new data – stratigraphy, paleontology, paleomagnetism (North Caspian Depression, Russia) // IGCP 610 Proceedings of the Third Plenary Conference and Field Trip “From the Caspian to Mediterranean: Environmental Change and Human Response during the Quaternary” 22-30 September 2015, Astrakhan, Russia. Moscow: MSU. 2015. P.197-201.
• Zastrozhnov A., Danukalova G., Golovachev M., Titov V., Tesakov A., Simakova A., Osipova E., Yakovlev A. Singil deposits in the Quaternary sequence of the Lower Volga area: new data and new constraints (Russia) // IGCP 610 Proceedings of the Third Plenary Conference and Field Trip “From the Caspian to Mediterranean: Environmental Change and Human Response during the Quaternary” 22-30 September 2015, Astrakhan, Russia. Moscow: MSU. 2015. P.201-204.

• Tesakov A.S. 2016. Early Middle Pleistocene Ellobius (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Arviclinae) from Armenia. Russian Journal of Theriology, 15, 2, 151-158. Text.

• Shchelinsky V.E., Gurova M., Tesakov A.S., Titov V.V., Frolov P.D., Simakova A.N. 2016. The Early Pleistocene site of Kermek in western Ciscaucasia (southern Russia): Stratigraphy, biotic record and lithic industry (preliminary results). Quaternary International, 393, P.51-69.
  
• Petrova T.V., Tesakov A.S., Kowalskaya Y.M., Abramson N.I. 2016. Cryptic speciation in the narrow-headed vole, Lasiopodomys (Stenocranius) gregalis, (Rodentia: Cricetidae). Zoologica Scripta, 45, 6, P.618–629 (doi:10.1111/zsc.12176).
• Kryštufek B., Mahmoudi A., Tesakov A.S., Matějů J., Hutterer R. 2016. A review of bristly ground squirrels Xerini and a generic revision in the African genus Xerus. Mammalia, 2016, 80(5), P.521-540. (doi: 10.1515/mammalia-2015-0073).
• Trifonov V.G., Lyubin V.P., Belyaeva E.V., Lebedev V.A., Trikhunkov Ya.I, Tesakov A.S.,  Simakova A.N., Veselovsky R.V., Latyshev A.V., Presnyakov S.L., Ivanova T.P., Ozhereliev D.V., Bachmanov D.M., Lyapunov S.M. 2016. Stratigraphic and tectonic settings of Early Paleolithic of North-West Armenia // Quaternary International. Vol. 420. P. 178-198.
  
• Tesakov A.S. 2016. Early Pleistocene small mammals of Eastern Europe and Western Aia: biochronology and biogeography. XIV EAVP Meeting, 6-10 July, 2016, Haarlem, The Netherlands. P.48.
• Martin R.A., Tesakov A.S., Agustí J. 2016. A new arvicolid rodent from the Early Pleistocene of the Baza Basin, southern Spain. XIV EAVP Meeting, 6-10 July, 2016, Haarlem, The Netherlands. P.50.
• van Kolfschoten T., Tesakov A.S. 2016. Early Pleistocene arvicolines from Zuurland (the Netherlands): new insights into Holarctic biochronology and biogeography. XIV EAVP Meeting, 6-10 July, 2016, Haarlem, The Netherlands. P.51.
• Shalaeva E.A., Trifonov V.G., Lebedev V.A., Avagyan A.V., Sahakyan L.H., Simakova A.N., Kolesnichenko A.A., Frolov P.D., Tesakov A.S., Arakelyan D.G., Bachmanov D.M., Belyaeva E.V., Lyubin V.P. 2016. Quaternary geology and origin of the Shirak basin, NW Armenia. Bridging Europe and Asia: Quaternary stratigraphy and Paleolithic human occupation in Armenia and Southern Georgia. INQUA-SEQS workshop, 3-10 September, 2016. Institute of geological sciences, Armenian National Academy of Sciences: Yerevan. P.19.
• Trifonov V.G., Ҫelik H., Ozherelyev D.V., Simakova A.N., Bachmanov D.M., Trikhunkov Ya.I., Frolov P.D., Tesakov A.S. 2016. Quaternary geology and origin of the Shirak basin, NW Armenia. Bridging Europe and Asia: Quaternary stratigraphy and Paleolithic human occupation in Armenia and Southern Georgia. INQUA-SEQS workshop, 3-10 September, 2016. Institute of geological sciences, Armenian National Academy of Sciences: Yerevan. P.16.

• Tesakov A.S., Titov V.V., Simakova A.N., Frolov P.D., Syromyatnikova E.V., Kurshakov S.V., Volkova N.V., Trikhunkov Ya.I., Sotnikova M.V., Kruskop S.V., Zelenkov N.V., Tesakova E.M., Palatov D.M. Late Miocene (early Turolian) vertebrate faunas and associated biotic record of the Northern Caucasus: geology, taxonomy, paleoenvironment, biochronology // Fossil Imprint. 2017. Vol.73. No.3-4, 383-444. Link
• Trifonov V.G., Shalaeva E. A., Saakya L.Kh., Bachmanov D.M., Lebedev V.A., Trikhunkov Ya.I., Simakova A.N., Avagyan A.V., Tesakov A.S., Frolov P.D. Lyubin V.P., Belyaeva E.V., Latyshev A.V., Ozherelyev D.V., Kolesnichenko A.A. 2017. Quaternary Tectonics of Recent Basins in Northwestern Armenia. Geotectonics, Vol. 51, No. 5, P. 499–519.
  
• Alçiçek H., Wesselingh F.P., Alçiçek M.C., Jiménez-Moreno G., Feijen F.J., Hoek Ostende L.W. van den, Mayda S., Tesakov A.S. A multiproxy study of the early Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic conditions of an anastomosed fluvial sequence from the Çameli Basin (SW Anatolia, Turkey). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,V. 467, P. 232–252.
• M. Cihat Alçiçek, Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende, Gercek Saraç, Alexey S. Tesakov, Alison M. Murray, H. Yavuz Hakyemez, Fikret Göktaş, Serdar Mayda, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, Yesim Büyükmeriç, Frank P. Wesselingh, Hülya Alçiçek. Comment on “Miocene to Quaternary tectonostratigraphic evolution of the middle section of the Burdur-Fethiye Shear Zone, south-western Turkey: Implications for the wide inter-plate shear zones. Tectonophysics 690, 336-354” by İ. Elitez & C. Yaltırak. Tectonophysics. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.05.027
• Trifonov V., Ozherelyev D., Tesakov A., Simakova A. 2017. Environmental and geodynamic settings of migration of the earliest hominine to the Arabian-Caucasus region. In:International Conference INQUA–SEQS 2017, (Tautavel, France, September 10–15, 2017). Tautavel – Ufa, P. 24.
• Shalaeva E.A., Trifonov V.G., Avagyan A.V., Sahakyan L.H., Simakova A.N., Trikhunkov Y.I., Frolov P.D., Sokolov S.A., Tesakov A.S., Lebedev V.A., Titov V.V., Belyaeva E.V. 2017. In: Quaternary stratigraphy and hominids around Europe: Tautavel (Eastern Pyrenees). In:International Conference INQUA–SEQS 2017, (Tautavel, France, September 10–15, 2017). Tautavel – Ufa, P.54.
• Yanina T.A., Borisova O.K., Morozova T.D., Wesselingh F.P., Tesakov A.S., Titov V.V., Baigusheva V.S., Timireva S.N., Simakova A.N., Semyenov V.V., Konstantinov E.A., Frolov P.D., Lychagin M.Yu., Kononov Yu.M. Where East meets West: Pontocaspia, the historical dimension of the evolution of a unique biodiversity. 2017. Guidebook of excursions of the International Youth School-Conference (Russia, Rostov-on-Don, Kagal’nik, Astrakhan’, August 21 – September 02, 2017). Rostov-on-Don, Southern Scientific Centre RAS, 77 pp.

• Kostopoulos D.S., Konidaris G., Tesakov A., van den Hoek Ostende L.W., Rook L. 2018. European Early Pleistocene biogeography and ecology based on the mammal record: Case studies and preliminary syntheses. Comptes Rendus Palevol, Vol.17. No.4-5. P.239-245. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2017.11.002.
• Martin R.A., Tesakov A., Agustí A., Johnston K. 2018. Orcemys, a new genus of arvicolid rodent from the early Pleistocene of the Guadix–Baza Basin, southern Spain. Comptes Rendus Palevol, Vol.17. No.4-5. P.310-319. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2017.06.006.
• Thijs van Kolfschoten T., Tesakov A.S., Bell C.J. 2018. The first record of Phenacomys (Mammalia, Rodentia, Cricetidae) in Europe (early Pleistocene, Zuurland, The Netherlands). Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol.192. P.274-281.
• Alçiçek M.C., van den Hoek Ostende L. W., Saraç G., Tesakov A. S., Murray A.M., Hakyemez H.Y., Göktaş F., Mayda S., Jiménez-Moreno G., Büyükmeriç Y., Wesselingh F.P., Alçiçek H. 2018. Comment on “Miocene to Quaternary tectonostratigraphic evolution of the middle section of the Burdur-Fethiye Shear Zone, south-western Turkey: Implications for the wide inter-plate shear zones. Tectonophysics 690, 336–354.” Tectonophysics, 722, 595–600.
• Trifonov V.G., Ҫelik H., Simakova A.N., Bachmanov D.M., Frolov P.D., Trikhunkov Y.I., Tesakov A.S., Titov V.V., Lebedev V.A., Ozherelyev D.V., Latyshev A.V., Sychevskaya E.K. 2018. Pliocene – Early Pleistocene history of the Euphrates valley applied to Late Cenozoic environment of the northern Arabian Plate and its surrounding, eastern Turkey. Quaternary International. 493, 137-165. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2018.06.009.
• Zastrozhnov A.S., Danukalova G.A., Golovachev M.V., Titov V.V., Tesakov A.S., Simakova A.N., Osipova E.M., Trofimova S.S., Zynoviev E.V., Kurmanov R.G. Singil Deposits in the Quaternary Scheme of the Lower Volga Region: New Data. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation, 2018, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 647–685. doi:10.1134/S0869593818060060.
• Rausch L., Alçiçek H., Vialet A., Boulbes N., Mayda S., Titov V.V., Stoica M., Charbonier S., Büyükmeriç Y., Abels H., Tesakov A.S., Moigne A.-M., Andrieu-Ponel V., Wesselingh F., Alçiçek M.C. 2018. Homo erectus paleoenvironments in the early Pleistocene Denizli Basin: an integrated paleontological, sedimentological and geochemical approach. PRIDE-RCMNS conference, 26-29 August 2018. Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi. P.27.
• Titov V.V., Tesakov A.S., Simakova A.N., Frolov P.D., Borisova O.K., Panin P.G., Timireva S.N., Konov Yu.M., Syromyatnikova E.V. 2018. Key sections of Pleistocene continental deposits from North-Eastern Sea of Azov region. In: Nadja Zupan Hajna, Andrej Mihevc, Magda Aljančič (Eds.), Quaternary Stratigraphy and Karst and Cave Sediments: program, abstracts & guide book. Ljubljana: ZRC Publishing, P.74-75.
• Trifonov V.G., Simakova A.N., Ҫelik H., Shalaeva E.A., Aleksandrova G.N., Trikhunkov Ya.I., Frolov P.D., Zelenin E.A., Tesakov A.S., Bachmanov D.M., Latyshev A.V., Sokolov S.A. 2018. Brackish-water Caspian-type Upper Pliocene deposits in the western Shirak Basin (NE Turkey), applied to estimation of the Quaternary uplift of the Lesser Caucasus. In: Nadja Zupan Hajna, Andrej Mihevc, Magda Aljančič (Eds.), Quaternary Stratigraphy and Karst and Cave Sediments: program, abstracts & guide book. Ljubljana: ZRC Publishing, P.78-79.
  
•  Shchelinsky V.E., Tesakov A.S., Titov V.V., Frolov P.D. 2018. The Early Paleolithic industries with large cutting tools on the Taman peninsula (Azov-Black Sea region, Russia): age, representative forms of tools // 18th UISPP world congress, Paris, June 4-9, 2018. P.173-174.
• Trifonov, V., Simakova, A., Ҫelik, H., Trikhunkov, Ya., Shalaeva, E., Frolov, P., Aleksandrova, G., Zelenin, E., Tesakov, A., Bachmanov, D., Sokolov, S.A. Marine Akchaghylian deposits of Caspian type in the western Shirak Basin and intensive Quaternary uplift in Armenian Highland // International Conference “30 years after the Spitak earthquake: Experience and perspectives”, 3–7 Dec. 2018. Abstracts. Yerevan, 2018. P. 41-42.
  

• Tesakov, A.S., Simakova, A.N., Frolov, P.D., Sytchevskaya, E.K., Syromyatnikova, E.V., Foronova, I.V., Shalaeva, E.A., Trifonov, V.G. 2019. Early-Middle Pleistocene environmental and biotic transition in north-western Armenia, southern Caucasus. Palaeontologia Electronica 22.2.25A 1-39. doi.org/10.26879/916 Link
  
• Krijgsman W., Tesakov, A., Yanina, T., Lazarev, S., Danukalova, G., Van Baak, C. G. C., Agustí,  J.,  Alçiçek, M.C., Aliyeva, E., Bista, D., Bruch, A., Büyükmeriç, Y., Bukhsianidze, M., Flecker, R., Frolov, P., Hoyle, T.M., Jorissen, E.L., Kirscher, U., Koriche, S.A., Kroonenberg, S.B., Lordkipanidze, D., Oms, O., Rausch, L., Singarayer, J., Stoica, M., van de Velde, S., Titov, V.V., Wesselingh, F.P. 2019. Quaternary time scales for the Pontocaspian domain: Interbasinal connectivity and faunal evolution. Earth-Science Reviews. 188, P.1–40. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.10.013
• Lebedev V.S., Rusin M.Y., Zemlemerova E.D., Matrosova V.A., Bannokova A.A., Kovalskaya Y.M., Tesakov A.S. 2019. Phylogeny and evolutionary history of birch mice Sicista Griffith, 1827 (Sminthiae, Rodentia): implications from a multigene study. Journal of Zoological Systematic and Evolutionary Research. 57, P. 695–709. doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12279
• Shalaeva E.A., Trifonov V.G., Lebedev V.A., Simakova A.N., Avagyan A.V., Sahakyan L.H., Arakelyan D.G., Sokolov S.A., Bachmanov D.M., Kolesnichenko A.A., Latyshev A.V., Belyaeva E.V., Lyubin V.P., Frolov P.D., Tesakov A.S., Sychevskaya E.K., Kovalyova G.V., Martirosyan M., Khisamutdinova A.I. 2019. Quaternary geology and origin of the Shirak Basin, NW Armenia. Quaternary International. 509, P.41-61. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2018.09.017
• Trifonov V.G., Tesakov A.S., Simakova A.N., Bachmanov D.M. 2019. Environmental and geodynamic settings of the earliest hominin migration to the Arabian-Caucasus region: A review. Quaternary International. 534. P. 116–137. doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.03.008
  
• Alçiçek, M.C., Mayda, S., ten Veen, J.H., Boulton, S.J., Neubauer, T.A., Alçiçek, H., Alexey S. Tesakov, Gerçek Saraç, H. Yavuz Hakyemez, Fikret Göktaş, Alison M. Murray, Vadim V. Titov, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, Yeşim Büyükmeriç, Frank P. Wesselingh, Johannes M. Bouchal, F. Arzu Demirel, T. Tanju Kaya, Kazım Halaçlar, Melike Bilgin, van den Hoek Ostende, L.W. 2019. Reconciling the stratigraphy and depositional history of the Lycian orogen-top basins, SW Anatolia. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 99:551–570. doi:10.1007/s12549-019-00394-3
• Kryštufek B., Tesakov A.S., Lebedev V.S., Bannikova A.A., Abramson N.I., Shenbrot G. 2019. Back to the future: the proper name for red-backedvoles is Clethrionomys Tilesius and not Myodes Pallas. Mammalia. 84, 2, 214–217. https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2019-0067
  
• Syromyatnikova E.V., Tesakov A.S., Mayda S., Kaya T., Saraç G. 2019. Plio-pleistocene amphibians and reptiles from Central Turkey: new faunas and faunal records with comments on their biochronological position based on small mammals // Fossil Imprint. 75, 3, 1-16. doi:10.2478/if-2019-0022.
• Rausch L., Alçiçek H., Vialet A., Boulbes N., Mayda M., Titov V.V., Stoica M., Charbonnier S., Abels H.A., Tesakov A.S., Moigne A.-M., Andrieu-Ponel V., De Franceschi D., Neubauer T.A., Wesselingh F.P., Alçiçek M.C. 2019. An integrated reconstruction of the early Pleistocene palaeoenvironment of Homo erectus in the Denizli Basin (SW Turkey). Geobios,  57, 77-95.
  
• Pavel D. Frolov, Alexey S. Tesakov, Alexey A. Bondarev. 2019. Molluscs of the genus Corbicula as climatic and stratigraphic markers. 20th Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, INQUA 2019, Dublin, Ireland. INQUA, Dublin. O-3132. Text.
• Kirsty Penkman, Richard Preece, Simon Parfitt, Tom Meijer, Nicole Limondon-Lozouet, Pavel Frolov, Vadim Titov, Alexey Tesakov. 2019. EQUATE – Building a European Quaternary Aminostratigraphic Timescale.  20th Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, INQUA 2019, Dublin, Ireland. INQUA, Dublin. O-5040.
• Vadim Titov, Alexey Tesakov, Vera Baigusheva, Mikhail Golovachev. 2019.  Middle– early Late Pleistocene Faunal complexes of Eastern Europe: recent interpretation. 20th Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, INQUA 2019, Dublin, Ireland. INQUA, Dublin. O-5107.
• Sergey Sokolov, Alexey Tesakov, Pavel Frolov. 2019. Sratigraphy and neotectonic structure of Lower Pleistocene deposits in the NW Taman Peninsula (Azov Sea, Eastern Europe). 20th Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research, INQUA 2019, Dublin, Ireland. INQUA, Dublin. O-3128

• Trifonov V.G., Simakova, A.N., H.Ҫelik, Tesakov A.S., E.A.Shalaeva, Frolov P.D., Trikhunkov Ya.I., Zelenin E., Aleksandrova G.N., Bachmanov D.M., Latyshev A.V., Ozherelyev D.V., Sokolov S.A., Belyaeva E.V. 2020.  The Upper Pliocene – Quaternary geological history of the Shirak Basin (NE Turkey and NW Armenia) and estimation of the Quaternary uplift of Lesser Caucasus. Quaternary International, 546, 229-244. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2019.11.004.
• Zastrozhnov, A., Danukalova, G., Golovachev, M., Titov, V., Osipova, E., Simakova, A., Yakovlev A., Yakovleva T., Aleksandrova G., Shevchenko A., Murray A., Tesakov A., Sadikhov, E. 2020. Biostratigraphical investigations as a tool for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Neopleistocene (Middle-Upper Pleistocene) at Kosika, Lower Volga, Russia. Quaternary International, 540. P.38–67. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2018.11.036.
• Tesakov A.S., Frolov P.D., Titov V.V., Dickinson M., Meijer T., Parfitt S.A., Preece R.C., Penkman K.E.H. 2020. Aminostratigraphical test of the East European Mammal Zonation for the late Neogene and Quaternary. Quaternary Science Reviews, 243, 106434, 1-20. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106434.

• Leonova E.V., Uspenskaya O.I., Serdyuk N.V., Spiridonova E.A., Tesakov A.S., Chernysheva E.V., Frolov P.D., Syromyatnikova E.V. 2021. 5. Early Holocene human adaptation and palaeoenvironment of the north-western Caucasus. In: D.Borić, D.Antonović, B.Mihailović (eds.), Foraging Assemblages, Vol.1, Publikum, Belgrade, pp. 29-35.
• Sotnikova M.V., Klementiev A.M., Sizov A.V., Tesakov A.S. 2021. New species of Ballusia Ginsburg and Morales, 1998 (Ursidae, Carnivora) from Miocene of Eastern Siberia, Russia. Historical Biology, 33(4), P. 486–497, doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1637864
• Syromyatnikova E., Tesakov A., Frolov P., Titov V. 2021. A Pliocene Mioproteus (Urodela: Proteidae) from the Taman Peninsula (Russia). Russian Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2021, pp. 125–128. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2021-28-2-125-128
• Simakova A.N., Tesakov A.S., Çelik H., Frolov P.D., Shalaeva E.A., Sokolov S.A., Trikhunkov Ya.I., Trifonov V.G., Bachmanov D.M., Latyshev A.V., Ranjan P.B., Gaydalenok O.V., Syromyatnikova E.V., Kovaleva G.V., Vasilieva М.А. 2021. Caspian-type dinocysts in NE Turkey mark deep inland invasion of the Akchagylian brackish-water basin during the terminal Late Pliocene // Quaternary International. 605-606, 329–348, doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2021.01.020
  

• Tesakov A.S., Bondarev A.A. Down to the roots of lemmings: a new species of basal lemming from the upper Pliocene of West Siberia, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2022, Vol. 41, No. 5, e2036173, 1-16 pp. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2021.2036173
• Yakimova A.A., Tesakov A.S., Pogodina N.V. Morphology and evolutionary position of the Early Pliocene vole Propliomys jalpugensis from Eastern Europe. Russian Journal of Theriology, 2022, No.1, P. 13-23. doi:10.15298/rusjtheriol.21.1.02. Text.
• Ranjan P.B., Titov V.V., Tesakov A.S., Trikhunkov Y.I., Çelik H. Identification of proboscidean tusk from the Plio-Pleistocene transition of the Pekecik Section, Eastern Turkey, Russian Journal of Theriology, 2022, No.1, P. 94-101. Text. doi: 10.15298/rusjtheriol.21.1.11
• Zelenkov N.V., Syromyatnikova E.V., Tarasenko K.K., Titov V.V., Tesakov A.S. Southeastern Europe as the Arena of Vertebrate Evolution in the Late Miocene. Paleontological Journal, 2022, Vol. 56, No. 2, P. 213–226. doi:10.1134/S0031030122020149
  
• Kjær K.H., Pedersen M.W., De Sanctis B., De Cahsan B., Korneliussen T.S., Michelsen C.S., Sand K.K., S Jelavić., Ruter A.H., Schmidt A.M.A., Kjeldsen K.K., Tesakov A.S., Snowball I., Gosse J.C., Alsos I.G., Wang Y., Dockter C., Rasmussen M., Jørgensen M.E., Skadhauge B., Prohaska A., Kristensen J.Å., Bjerager M., Allentoft M.E., Coissac E., PhyloNorway Consortium, Rouillard A., Simakova A., Fernandez-Guerra A., Bowler C., Macias-Fauria M., Vinner L., Welch J.J., Hidy A.J., Sikora M., Collins M.J., Durbin R., Larsen N.K., Willerslev E. A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA // Nature. 2022. Vol 612. 283-291. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05453-y Link
  

• Alçiçek H., Gross M., Bouchal J.M., Wesselingh F.P., Neubauer T., Meijer T., van den Hoek Ostende L. W., Tesakov A., Murray A.M., Mayda S., Alçiçek M.C. 2023. Paleobiodiversity and paleoenvironments of the eastern Paratethys Pleistocene lacustrine-palustrine sequence in the Baklan Basin (SW Anatolia, Turkey). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 626, 111649, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111649
• White D., Parfitt S.A., Shchetnikov A.A., Tesakov A.S., Preece R.C. A Holocene floodplain sequence from the Kirenga Valley, Lake Baikal region (Siberia), and its significance for molluscan and mammalian biogeography Author links open overlay panel // Quaternary International, 2023, 646, P. 51-67. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2022.09.005 Link
• Ranjan P.B., Titov V.V., Patnaik R., Tesakov A.S. Progress in Comparison of Elephantidae Fauna Based on Dental Study between the Plio-Pleistocene of the South of Eastern Europe and the Upper Siwaliks of India. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation, 2023, Vol. 31, No. 6, P. 721–736. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593823060102
• Sinitsa, M., Tesakov, A. 2023. Squirrels (Rodentia, Sciuridae) of the Early Miocene Tagay fauna in Eastern Siberia. Biological Communications, 68(4): 273–290. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu03.2023.407
  

• Syromyatnikova E. V., Titov V. V., Tesakov A. S. & Skutschas P. P. 2024. A “preglacial” giant salamander from Europe: new record from the Late Pliocene of Caucasus. Comptes Rendus Palevol 23 (3): 45–57. https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2024v23a3
• Khmeleva M.V., Panin P.G., Frolov P.D., Tesakov A.S., Bukhonov A.V. 2024. Soil Formation in the Early Pliocene by Data of the Alma-Peschanoe Loess-Soil Sequence, Western Crimea. Eurasian Soil Science, 57, 50–62. https://doi.org/10.1134/S106422932360255X
• Malakhova I.G., Tesakov A.S., Popov S.V., Rundić, Lj. 2024. Academician Vladimir Laskarev (1868–1954) and Paratethys. Geološki anali Balkanskoga poluostrva, 85(1), 129–140.
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• Trikhunkov YaI., Bachmanov D.M., Tesakov A.S., Titov V.V., Lomov V.S., Sokolov S.A., Latyshev A.V., Simakova A.N., Syromyatnikova E.V., Çelik H., Shchelinsky V.E., Frolov P.D., Shalaeva E.A., Nikolskaya P.P. Upper Pliocene–Lower Pleistocene Upper Molasse Belorechensk Formation of Western Ciscaucasia in Context of Regional Neotectonics and Paleogeography. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation. 2024, Vol. 32, pp. 348–343. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593824700059
• Tesakov A.S., Frolov P., Simakova A., Yakimova A., Titov V., Ranjan P., Çelik H., Trifonov V. 2024. Plio-Pleistocene Small Mammal-Based Biochronology of Eastern Anatolia and Transcaucasus. Quaternary, 7, 42, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat7040042
• Trifonov V.G., Tesakov A.S., Simakova A.N., Gaydalenok O.V., Frolov P.D., Bylinskaya M.E., Trikhunkov Ya.I., Bachmanov D.M., Ҫelik H., Hessami K. 2024. Geological and biotic context of the Plio-Pleistocene evolution of the Caucasus-Caspian Region (Akchagylian transgression). Quaternary International, 686-687, 120-141. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2023.03.011
• Trifonov V.G., Tesakov A.S., Simakova A.N., Çelik, H., Frolov, P.D., Bachmanov, D.M., Trikhunkov Ya.I. 2024. Comparison of neotectonic intermontane basins of northern Armenia and Eastern Turkey. Geotectonics, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 344–367.https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016852124700262
• Lopatin A.V., Tesakov A.S. 2024. Small mammals from the Taurida locality (Crimea, Pleistocene): systematic composition and biochronology.  Doklady Earth Sciences, 1–6.
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• Tesakov A.S., Ivanova A.V., Bondarev A.A., Sizov A.V., Yakimova A.A., Trofimova S.S., Frolov P.D., Kurshakov S.V., Dorogov A.L., Sorokin A.D. 2024. Early Pliocene biotic locality Novaya Livenka in south of Western Siberia (Russia): Palynology, plant macrofossils, molluscs, small mammals, and biochronology. Fossil Imprint, 80(2), 1–19.
  
• Frolov P.D., Tesakov A.S., Popov S.V., Chepalyga A.L. 2024. New data on the distribution of the genus Apscheronia in the Euxinian basin. RCMNS interim colloquim & INHIGEO conference “100 years of the Paratethys (Laskarev, 1924) – Conceptual History and Modern Challenges” September 30th - October 1st, 2024. Abstract book. Serbian Geological Society, Belgrade, p.16.
• Sizov A.V., Sotnikova M.V., Sokolov S.A., Yakimova A.A., Tesakov A.S., Vislobokova I.A., Zelenkov N.V., Simakova A.N., Yushin K.I., Batsaikhan Ts. 2024. A New Perspective on the Age and Geological Structure of the Neogene Vertebrate Locality Khyargas Nuur 2 (Northwestern Mongolia) // Geodynamics & Tectonophysics 15 (6), 0791, 1-21. doi:10.5800/GT-2024-15-6-0791
  

• van Kolfschoten T., Tesakov A.S. 2025. Continental biostratigraphy / Elias, S. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, 3rd Edition. Vol. 5. London: Elsevier. P.718–727.
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