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LoessFest2018 will be held in Volgograd, Russian Federation from 23rd to 29th of September 2018. The conference is jointly organized by the INQUA Loess Focus Group and Ponto-Caspian Stratigraphy and Geochronology Focus Group in order to bring the international communities together to solve a number of contentious issues involving stratigraphy, geochronology, geological history, archaeology and climate change in loess regions. The main goal of the Loessfest2018 is to facilitate cross-disciplinary and cross-regional correlation of geological, ar Loessfest2018 will also focus on observation of geological characteristics of Quaternary sections in Lower Volga valley, describing the eventful palaeogeographical history of the region and loess-paleosol formation in an area under an active transgressive-regressive regime of the Caspian Sea and fluctuations of Volga River. The sections scheduled to be visited during the field trip show the stratigraphy and palaeogeography of the northern Eurasian Pleistocene, they contain a unique record of major regional and continental phenomena (e.g. glacial-interglacial cycles of the East-European plain, the Caucasus and Central Asia), as well as of global climate change. The loess record in the Lower Volga region covers the Late Quaternary period and highlights dust accumulation from different sources, such as Volga River, Middle and Late Quaternary glacial deposits of East European plain, Central Asian deserts and Caspian Sea.chaeological, environmental, and anthropological records in loess-paleosol sequences. The conference organizing committee will provide four grants to memorize two outstanding Russian researchers of Loess: prof. Andrei Velichko and prof. Andrei Dodonov.