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  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Russia Leader Award
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Overview

V. P. Kovach is affiliated with the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Russian Federation and focuses their research primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Computer Science. Their work spans several subfields, particularly geophysics, artificial intelligence, geology, geochemistry and petrology, and mechanics of materials.

The scientific topics addressed in Kovach's research cover areas such as geological and geochemical analysis, geochemistry and geologic mapping, geological studies and exploration, high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake and tectonic studies, geochemistry and elemental analysis, and mineralogy and gemology studies.

Some of Kovach's recent publications include:

  • Late Mesoproterozoic-early Neoproterozoic quartzite-schist sequences of the Aktau-Mointy terrane (Central Kazakhstan): Provenance, crustal evolution, and implications for paleotectonic reconstruction, 2020, Precambrian Research
  • Early Neoproterozoic crustal growth and microcontinent formation of the north-central Central Asian Orogenic Belt: New geological, geochronological, and Nd-Hf isotopic data on the Mélange Zone within the Zavkhan terrane, western Mongolia, 2021, Gondwana Research
  • 1.79-1.75 Ga mafic magmatism of the Siberian craton and late Paleoproterozoic paleogeography, 2022, Precambrian Research
  • Formation of the Neoproterozoic Continental Crust in the Structures of the Central Segment of the Central Asian Fold Belt, 2021, Petrology
  • Geochemistry of Metasedimentary Rocks, Sources of Clastic Material, and Tectonic Nature of Mesozoic Basins on the Northern Framing of the Eastern Mongol-Okhotsk Orogenic Belt, 2020, Russian Geology and Geophysics

Kovach frequently collaborates with a core group of researchers, among whom are Yu. V. Plotkina, Т. М. Сковитина, Е. Б. Сальникова, E. V. Adamskaya, and А. Б. Котов, with whom they have published multiple papers.

The scientist's work appears regularly in several prominent publication venues, including:

  • Doklady Earth Sciences
  • Доклады РОССИЙСКОЙ АКАДЕМИИ НАУК Науки о Земле
  • Petrology
  • Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation
  • Geodynamics & Tectonophysics

Best Publications

  • Reassessment of continental growth during the accretionary history of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

    A. Kröner;V. Kovach;E. Belousova;E. Hegner

  • Isotope provinces, mechanisms of generation and sources of the continental crust in the Central Asian mobile belt: geological and isotopic evidence

    V.I. Kovalenko;V.V. Yarmolyuk;V.P. Kovach;A.B. Kotov

  • Nd-Sr isotopic mapping of the Chinese Altai and implications for continental growth in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt

    Tao Wang;Bor-Ming Jahn;Victor P. Kovach;Ying Tong

  • Neoproterozoic accretionary and collisional events on the western margin of the Siberian craton: new geological and geochronological evidence from the Yenisey Ridge

    Valery A. Vernikovsky;A.E. Vernikovskaya;A.B. Kotov;E.B. Sal'nikova

  • Age of Palaeozoic granites and metamorphism in the Tuvino-Mongolian Massif of the Central Asian Mobile Belt: loss of a Precambrian microcontinent

    E. B. Salnikova;I. K. Kozakov;A. B. Kotov;A. Kröner

  • No excessive crustal growth in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Further evidence from field relationships and isotopic data

    Alfred Kröner;Victor Kovach;Dmitriy Alexeiev;Kuo-Lung Wang;Kuo-Lung Wang

  • Early stages of the Paleoasian Ocean formation: Results of geochronological, isotopic, and geochemical investigations of Late Riphean and Vendian-Cambrian complexes in the Central Asian Foldbelt

    V. V. Yarmolyuk;V. I. Kovalenko;V. P. Kovach;E. Yu. Rytsk

  • Geochronology of igneous rocks and formation of the Late Paleozoic south Mongolian active margin of the Siberian continent

    V. V. Yarmolyuk;V. I. Kovalenko;E. B. Sal’nikova;V. P. Kovach

  • U-Pb age of Syn- and postmetamorphic granitoids of south Mongolia : Evidence for the presence of grenvillides in the central Asian foldbelt

    V. V. Yarmolyuk;V. I. Kovalenko;E. B. Sal'nikova;I. K. Kozakov

  • Precambrian geology of the Kazakh Uplands and Tien Shan: An overview

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  • Isotopic structure and evolution of the continental crust in the East Transbaikalian segment of the Central Asian Foldbelt

    E. Yu. Rytsk;V. P. Kovach;V. V. Yarmolyuk;V. I. Kovalenko

  • Composition, sources, and mechanism of continental crust growth in the Lake zone of the Central Asian Caledonides: I. Geological and geochronological data

    V. V. Yarmolyuk;V. P. Kovach;V. I. Kovalenko;E. B. Salnikova

  • Structure and Evolution of the Continental Crust in the Baikal Fold Region

    E. Yu. Rytsk;V. P. Kovach;V. I. Kovalenko;V. V. Yarmolyuk

  • Composition, sources, and mechanisms of formation of the continental crust of the Lake zone of the Central Asian Caledonides. II. Geochemical and Nd isotope data

    V. P. Kovach;V. V. Yarmolyuk;V. I. Kovalenko;A. M. Kozlovskyi

  • Geology, Geochronology, and Geodynamics of the Khan Bogd Alkali Granite Pluton in Southern Mongolia

    V. I. Kovalenko;V. V. Yarmoluyk;E. B. Sal’nikova;A. M. Kozlovsky

  • Timing of closure of the eastern Mongol–Okhotsk Ocean: Constraints from U–Pb and Hf isotopic data of detrital zircons from metasediments along the Dzhagdy Transect

    Andrey A. Sorokin;Victor A. Zaika;Victor P. Kovach;Alexander B. Kotov

  • Zircon ages, geochemistry and Nd isotopic systematics for the Palaeoproterozoic 2.3–1.8 Ga Kuilyu Complex, East Kyrgyzstan – The oldest continental basement fragment in the Tianshan orogenic belt

    A. Kröner;D.V. Alexeiev;V.P. Kovach;Y. Rojas-Agramonte;Y. Rojas-Agramonte

  • Mechanisms of continental crust formation in the Central Asian Foldbelt

    V. V. Yarmolyuk;V. P. Kovach;I. K. Kozakov;A. M. Kozlovsky

  • The Western Charnockite Zone of the Eastern Ghats Belt, India — An Independent Crustal Province of Late Archaean (2.8 Ga) and Palaeoproterozoic (1.7—1.6 Ga) Terrains

    V.P. Kovach;R. Simmat;K. Rickers;N.G. Berezhnaya

  • Age, Composition, Sources, and Geodynamic Environments of the Origin of Granitoids in the Northern Part of the Ozernaya Zone, Western Mongolia: Growth Mechanisms of the Paleozoic Continental Crust

    S. N. Rudnev;A. E. Izokh;V. P. Kovach;R. A. Shelepaev

  • Sources and provenance of the Neoproterozoic placer deposits of the Northern Kazakhstan: Implication for continental growth of the western Central Asian Orogenic Belt

    Victor Kovach;Kirill Degtyarev;Andrey Tretyakov;Alexander Kotov

Frequent Co-Authors

E. B. Sal’nikova
E. B. Sal’nikova Russian Academy of Sciences
V. V. Yarmolyuk
V. V. Yarmolyuk Russian Academy of Sciences
Kuo-Lung Wang
Kuo-Lung Wang Academia Sinica
Dmitry P. Gladkochub
Dmitry P. Gladkochub Russian Academy of Sciences
Sun-Lin Chung
Sun-Lin Chung National Taiwan University
Bor-ming Jahn
Bor-ming Jahn National Taiwan University
Alfred Kröner
Alfred Kröner Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
A. M. Mazukabzov
A. M. Mazukabzov Russian Academy of Sciences
Sergei Pisarevsky
Sergei Pisarevsky Curtin University
Michael T.D. Wingate
Michael T.D. Wingate University of Western Australia

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