ИСТИНА

Total length of Russia's continental border is more than 22 thousand. Km and about 6 thousand. Km runs along the rivers, which separate Russia from the 14 neighboring countries. The most extensive such sections are located on the border between Russia and Norway, Lithuania, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China. Often the border rivers are very unstable natural objects exposed to constant reconfiguration, which sometimes contributes to the formation of centers of interstate conflicts. Often this occurs against the background of streamflow and water regime hydrotechnical control of border rivers by one of the countries having a negative impact on the hydrogeological security of the border areas. Thus, the study of the border rivers channel processes is necessary not only for prediction and prevention dangerous forms of their manifestations, but also as the basis for the preservation of good relations between neighboring countries. Distribution of river sections is differentiated within the state border of Russia. For some border areas with the former republics of the USSR river borders are still not demarcated. Border sections varies in the size of the rivers (their water content) and in their length. Russia has 184 river border sections, 40% of them with a length less than 5 km and only 12 sections of the border runs for over 100 km. Located in different natural zones, border rivers form their beds at various combinations of geomorphological, hydrological and landscape conditions that defines the variety of forms of channel processes. As а part of the study was prepared information and map database which helps to inventory and typology border rivers of Russia, made hydrological and morphological analysis. That allows develop scientific approaches for channel processes control to prevent or reduce the economic and political risks.