Characteristics of floods on the territory of Russia with regard to their natural and socioeconomic parameters

Parameters of 123 floods on the territory of the Russian Federation are analyzed, including the dates of young floods, numbers (frequency), duration, genetic type of floods, inundated land areas, total area of regions affected by flood, coordinates of their centers, number of population in these regions, total number of affected people, number of evacuated and killed people, number of buildings in inundation zone, and monetary damage. It is shown that material and human damages caused by rainfall floods and snowmelt floods in rivers are several orders of magnitude greater than the damages caused by the most common spring floods. Collation maps of main flood parameters have been prepared and analyzed; the areas of floods of main genetic types have been revealed and mapped and graphs of seasonal and long-term variability of flood parameters has been calculated.