PRECIPITATION RECONSTRUCTION FOR THE SOUTHERN URAL FROM TREE RINGS OF SCOTS PINE
The article analyzes the relationship between radial growth of pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) with spring-summer precipitation on the Zilair plateau (Southern Urals). Based on the identified close relationship (r = 0.78) of the late wood width of pine with May–July precipitation reconstruction from 1776 to 2015 was made. The reconstruction revealed periods of rainfall less than average at the intervals of 1888–1893, 1906–1912, 1952–1959, 2008–2012, and wet periods in the 1779–1783, 1827–1831, 1834–1838, 1878–1883 years. The longest wet periods were in the first half of the reconstruction – in the late 18<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> centuries, while the driest in the second half of the late nineteenth, early 1950-s of 20th, and the beginning of the 21<sup>st</sup> centuries.