Valeriya Omelko


Laboratory of Theriology
Senior Researcher
Candidate of biological sciences(Ph.D.)

E-mail: valeriya.omelko@biosoil.ru

Research interests: Theriology, mammal history at Russian Far East, archaeozoology, taphonomy, osteology

I have been working in the Laboratory of Theriology since 2003.

In 2005 I graduated from DVFU with a degree in Biology

In 2011, I was awarded the degree of Candidate of Biological Sciences (Ph.D.), the title of the dissertation "Shrews (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) of the Southern Sikhote-Alin in late Quaternary"

Selected publications

2025 - Holocene palaeoenvironments of southern Sikhote-Alin Mountains (southern Far East), reconstructed from palaeontological data

Danukalova G., Tiunov M., Osipova E., Kurmanov R., Omelko V., Panteleev A., Gladchenkov A.

Palaeoworld    Year: 2025 Volume: 34 Number: 5 Article ID: 200943

DOI: 10.1016/j.palwor.2025.200943

2024 - Chiropterophagy by the Siberian weasel (Mustela sibirica): the first record in the Russian Far East

Omelko V.E., Tiunov M.P.

International Journal of Speleology    Year: 2024 Volume: 53 Issue: 3 Article ID: ijs2525

DOI: 10.5038/1827-806X.53.3.2525

2024 - LATE HOLOCENE SQUAMATED REPTILES FROM THE MEDVEZHIY KLYK CAVE ON THE LOZOVY RIDGE (SOUTHERN SIKHOTE-ALIN, PRIMORSKY KRAY)

Ratnikov V.YU., Maslova I.V., Omelko V.E., Tiunov M.P.

Amurian zoological journal    Year: 2024 Volume: 16 Number: 3 Pages: 763–781

DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2024-16-3-763-781

IN RUSSIAN

2024 - Late Quaternary shrews (Soricomorpha: Soricidae) from Priamurye (Russian Far East) according to data from Koridornaya Cave: species diversity and stratigraphical aspects

Omelko V.E., Tiunov M.P.

Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments    Year: 2024 Volume: 104 Number: 2 Pages: 419-434

DOI: 10.1007/s12549-024-00601-w

2023 - CULTURAL-CHRONOLOGICAL COMPLEXES OF THE SETTLEMENT OF KORDON-DROVIANIK ON THE SOUTHEASTERN COAST OF PRIMORYE

I.V.Belova, Ya.E.Anzulis, I.Yu. Sleptsov, S.D.Prokopets, D.M.Belov, V.E.Omelko

Multidisciplinary Research in Archaeology    Year: 2023 Number: 2 Pages: 55-85

DOI: 10.24412/2658-3550-2023-2-55-85

IN RUSSIAN

2023 - Late Quaternary communities of shrews, Soricidae, from Ural and Far East Regions of Russia: A protocol for the multifactorial morphospace building

L.L. Voyta, V.E. Omelko, E.P. Izvarin, Yu.E. Kropacheva, E.O. Eidinova, J.A.Shemyakina, V.S. Nikiforova, T.V. Strukova, N.G. Smirnov

Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences    Year: 2023 Volume: 327 Number: 3 Pages: 555–590

DOI: 10.31610/trudyzin/2023.327.3.555

IN RUSSIAN

2023 - LATE HOLOCENE AMPHIBIANS FROM THE MEDVEZHIY KLYK CAVE OF THE LOZOVY RIDGE (SOUTHERN SIKHOTE-ALIN, PRIMORSKY KRAI)

Ratnikov V.YU., Maslova I.V., Omelko V.E., Tiunov M.P.

Amurian zoological journal    Year: 2023 Volume: 15 Number: 2 Pages: 420-434

DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2023-15-2-420-434

IN RUSSIAN

2022 - Temporal variation in soricid dentition: which are first – qualitative or quantitative features?

Voyta L.L., Omelko V.E., Tiunov M.P., Petrova E.A., Kryuchkova L.Yu.

Historical Biology    Year: 2022 Volume: 34 Number: 10 Pages: 1901-1915

DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2021.1986040

2021 - When beremendiin shrews disappeared in East Asia, or how we can estimate fossil redeposition

Voyta L.L., Omelko V.E., Tiunov M.P., Vinokurova M.A.

Historical Biology    Year: 2021 Volume: 33 Number: 11 Pages: 2656-2667

DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2020.1822354

2020 - WILD AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS IN LIFE SUPPORT OF THE YANZHOU СITY OF THE BOHAI STATE

Omelko V., Gelman E., Gasilin V., Vinokurova M.

Russia and the Pacific    Year: 2020 Number: 4 Pages: 161-174

DOI: 10.24411/1026-8804-2020-10057

IN RUSSIAN

2020 - THERIOFAUNA PECULIARITIES IN THE PRIKHANKAISKAYA LOWLAND DURING THE HOLOCENE

Omelko V.E., Perfilieva A.K.

Amurian zoological journal    Year: 2020 Volume: 12 Number: 2 Pages: 243-255

DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2020-12-2-243-255

IN RUSSIAN

2019 - THE ROLE OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS IN THE LIVELIHOOD OF KRASKINO FORTRESS POPULATION

Gelman E.I., Omelko V.E., Lyashchevskaya M.S., Bashtannik S.V., Bondarenko O.V., Rakov V.A., Elovskaya O.A.

Humanities Research in the Russian Far East    Year: 2019 Volume: 49 Number: 3 Pages: 31-38

DOI: 10.24866/1997-2857/2019-3/31-38

IN RUSSIAN

2016 - Similarity of Food Spectra, Habitat Types,and Ranges of Artiodactyls in the Far East

Sheremet’ev I.S., Sheremet’eva I.N., Borisov B.Z., Omel’ko V.E.

Russian Journal of Ecology    Year: 2016 Volume: 47 Number: 3 Pages: 273–280

DOI: 10.1134/S1067413616030103

2011 - Some restrictions of the morphometric methods as applied to classification of fossil remains Sorex (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) and Microtus (Rodentia: Cricetidae)

Voyta L.L., Golenishchev F.N., Tiunov M.P., Panasenko V.E.

VI th European Congress of Mammalogy    Year: 2011 Pages: 39

2010 - The distribution history of the Amur brown lemming (Lemmus amurensis) in the Late Pleistocene - Holocene in the southern Far East of Russia

Tiunov M.P., Panasenko V.E.

Russian Journal of Theriology    Year: 2010 Volume: 9 Number: 1 Pages: 33-37

2009 - Fauna of the coast of Bosfor Vostochnyy Strait in late Holocene (on materials of archaeological excavations)

Rakov V.A., Vasilyeva L.E., Zavertanova Y.V., Panasenko V.E.

Environment development of East Asia in Pleistocene - Holocene (boundaries, factors, stages of human mastering): Proceedings of International Scientific Conference    Year: 2009 Pages: 183-184