1. Butorin, N.V., Gidrobiologicheskie protsessy i dinamika vodnykh mass v vodokhranilishchakh Volzhskogo kaskada (Hydrobiological Processes and Dynamics of Water Masses in the Volga Cascade Reservoirs), Leningrad: Nauka, 1969.
2. Butorin, N.V., Ziminova, N.A., and Kurdin, V.P., Donnye otlozheniya verkhnevolzhskikh vodokhranilishch (Bottom Sediments of the Upstream Volga Reservoirs), Leningrad: Nauka, 1975.
3. Gerasimov, Yu.V., Malin, M.I., Solomatin, Yu.I., Bazarov, M.I., and Brazhnik, S.Yu., Distribution and structure of fish population in the reservoirs of the Volga cascade in the 1980th and 2010, Tr. In-Ta biologii vnutr. vod RAN, 2018, no. 82, pp. 82−106.
4. Zakonnov, V.V., Kostrov, A.V., and Zakonnova, A.V., Spatio-temporal transformation of the bottom sedi-ments complex of the Volga reservoirs Communication 4. The role of bank protection in the formation of bottom sediments of the Gorky Reservoir, Vod. Khoz-vo Rossii: problemy, tekhnologii, upravlenie (Water Economy of Russia: Problems, Technologies, Management), 2017, no. 4, pp. 60–74.
5. Korneva, L.G., Fitoplankton Vodokhranilishch basseina Volgi (Phytoplankton of the Volga Basin Reservoirs). Kostroma: Kostromskoi pech. dom, 2015, 284 p.