Author 1:
Name & Surname: Neroba A. V.
Company: Polar Division of PJSC “MMC “NORILSK NICKEL” (Norilsk, Russia)
Work Position: Vice Director for Mineral and Raw Materials Base Development
Contacts: e-mail: egorkinana@nk.nornik.ru

Author 2:
Name & Surname: Marysyuk V. P.
Company: Polar Division of PJSC “MMC “NORILSK NICKEL” (Norilsk, Russia)
Work Position: Principal Engineer, Center for Geodynamic Safety
Scientific Degree: Candidate of Engineering Sciences

Author 3:
Name & Surname: Oparin V. N.
Company: Chinakal Institute of Mining, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Work Position: Head of Experimental Geomechanics Department
Scientific Degree: Corresponding member RAS

Author 4:
Name & Surname: Tapsiev A. P.
Company: Chinakal Institute of Mining, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Work Position: Head of Underground Ore Mining Laboratory
Scientific Degree: Doctor of Engineering Science

The article focuses on discoveries and achievements in the area of nonlinear geomechanics and geophysics. The authors offer the methodological basis for multi-layer geoinformation-monitoring system “Geomechanical-Geodynamic Safety of Russia”. In the article, the canonical scale for representing structural block hierarchy of rocks and rock masses, the phenomenon of alternating response of rocks; the nature of pendulum-type waves in high-stress geomedia; the phenomena of zonal disintegration of rocks and self-organization of rock mass are described. The zonal disintegration phenomenon has been related with the spatial localization of gas-dynamic events in terms of mines in Kuzbass and Norilsk Region. The theoretical developments and the found relationships have been confirmed by the large-scale natural experiments carried out in Talnakh mines and, later on, by the full-scale studies in the diamond- and coal-bearing regions in Russia and abroad. The theoretical and practical findings and developments are the immense contribution to the advancement of principles of the nonlinear geomechanics and geophysics, which creates background for engineering new systems of integrated monitoring of natural and induced rock bursts and earthquakes in deeper level underground mining in the world.

The contribution of V. I. Vostrikov, Head of Rock Geophysics Laboratory, Chinakal Institute of Mining, Candidate of Engineering Sciences is highly appreciated.

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