Scope of expertise: A specialist in fault tectonics, tectonophysics, and recent geodynamics. Conducts studies of recent deformations, paleo- and present-day crustal state of stress and current geodynamic processes in Siberia and Mongolia.
Levi K.G., Miroshnitchenko A.I., San'kov V.A., Babushkin S.M., Larkin G.V., Badardinov A.A., Wong H.K., Colman S. and Delvaux D. Active faults of the Baikal depression, Bull. Centre Rech. Elf Explor. Prod., 1997, 21(2). Pp. 399-434.
San'kov V.A., Miroshnitchenko A.I., Levi K.G., Lukhnev A.V., Melnikov A.I., Delvaux D. Cenozoic stress field evolution in the Baikal rift zone, Bull. Centre Rech. Elf Explor. Prod., 1997, 21(2)/ Pp. 435-455.
Calais, E., Lesne O., Deverchere J., Sankov V.A., Lukhnev A.V., Miroshnichenko A.I., and Levi K.G. GPS measurements of crustal deformation in the Baikal rift zone, Siberia// Geophysical Research Letters, 1998. V. 25, №21. Pp.4003-4007.
San’kov V., Deverchere J., Gaudemer Y., Houdry F., Filippov A. Geometry and rate of faulting in the North Baikal Rift, Siberia// Tectonics, 2000, v. 19, №4. Pp. 707-722.
Calais E., Vergnolle M., San'kov V., Lukhnev A., Miroshnitchenko A., Amarjargal Sh., Deverchere J. GPS measurements of crustal deformation in the Baikal-Mongolia area (1994-2002): Implications for current kinematics of Asia// J.Geophys.Res. – 2003. - Vol. 108, № B10, 2501 10.1029/2002JB002373 25 October 2003
Jolivet M., De Boisgrollier T., Petit C., Fournier M., Sankov V.A., Ringenbach J.-C., Byzov L., Miroshnichenko A.I., Kovalenko S.N., Anisimova S.V. How old is the Baikal Rift Zone? Insight from apatite fission track thermochronology, Tectonics, 2009, 28, TC3008, doi:10.1029/2008TC002404
Petit C., Meyer B., Gunnell Y., Jolivet M., San’kov V., Strak V., and Gonga-Saholiariliva N. The height of faceted spurs, a proxy for determining long-term throw rates on normal faults: evidence from the North Baikal Rift System, Siberia // Tectonics, 2009, doi:10.1029/2009TC002555
San’kov V.A., Lukhnev A.V., Parfeevets A.V., Miroshnichenko A.I., Ashurkov S.V. Coupling of the Crustal and upper mantle deformations in the Mongolia-Siberian Mobile Area. Doklady Earth Sciences, Vol. 436, No. 1. (1 January 2011), pp. 159-164. doi:10.1134/s1028334x11010302
Lukhnev A. V., San'kov V. A., Miroshnichenko A. I., Ashurkov S. V., Calais E. GPS rotation and strain rates in the Baikal–Mongolia region. Russian Geology and Geophysics, vol. 51, no. 7, pp. 785-793, 2010 DOI: 10.1016/j.rgg.2010.06.006
Ashurkov, S. V.; San'kov, V. A.; Miroshnichenko, A. I.; Lukhnev, A. V.; Sorokin, A. P.; Serov, M. A.; Byzov, L. M. GPS geodetic constraints on the kinematics of the Amurian Plate. Russian Geology and Geophysics. 2011. Vol. 52, issue 2, pp. 239-249. DOI:10.1016/j.rgg.2010.12.017.
San’kov V.A., Parfeevets A.V., Lukhnev A.V., Miroshnichenko A.I., Ashurkov S.V. Late Cenozoic geodynamics and mechanical coupling of crustal and upper mantle deformations in the Mongolia-Siberia mobile area. Geotectonics. 2011. Vol. 45(5), pp. 378-393. DOI:10.1134/S0016852111050049
Lukhnev, A. V.; San'kov, V. A.; Miroshnichenko, A. I.; Ashurkov, S. V.; Byzov, L. M.; San'kov, A. V.; Bashkuev, Yu. B.; Dembelov, M. G.; Calais, E. GPS-measurements of recent crustal deformation in the junction zone of the rift segments in the central Baikal rift system. Russian Geology and Geophysics. Vol. 54, issue 11, pp. 1417-1426. DOI: 10.1016/j.rgg.2013.10.010
Parfeevets A.V., Sankov V.A. Late Cenozoic tectonic stress fields of the Mongolian microplate. Comptes rendus – Geoscience, 2012. V. 344. Pp. 227-238 DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2011.09.009.
Perevalova N.P., Sankov V.A., Astafyeva E.I., Zhupityaeva А.S. Threshold magnitude for Ionospheric TEC response to earthquakes // Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. 2014. V. 108. Pp. 77–90. doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2013.12.014.
Sankov V.A., Lukhnev A.V., Miroshnitchenko A.I., Dobrynina A.A., Ashurkov S.V., Byzov L.M., Dembelov M.G., Calais E., Déverchère J. Contemporary Horizontal Movements and Seismicity of the South Baikal Basin (Baikal Rift System) // Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth, 2014, Vol. 50, No. 6, pp. 785–794. DOI: 10.1134/S106935131406007X
Parfeevets A. V.and San’kov V. A. Late Cenozoic fields of the tectonic stresses in Western and Central Mongolia. Izvestiya-physics of The Solid Earth, v. 46, 5, p. 367-378, 2010, doi 10.1134/S1069351310050010
Novopashina A. V., San’kov V. A., and Buddo V. Yu. Space–Time Analysis of Earthquake-Generating Structures in the Baikal Rift System. Journal of Volcanology and Seismology, 2012, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 259–267. DOI 10.1134/S0742046312040045