«Journal of the Belarusian State University. Geography and Geology» is founded by the Belarusian State University in 1969 (until 2017, as «Vestnik BGU. Seriya 2, Khimiya. Biologiya. Geografiya»). The journal has been keeping the position of the country’s leading academic journal on basic theoretical and applied problems of geography. The journal includes original scientific articles and reviews of geographical research of environment, farm, population; chronicles of conferences; reviews and book reviews of monographs, textbooks and tutorials, as well as anniversary articles about the famous scientists in the field of geography and geology. The articles cover problems of physical geography, soil geography and science, climatology, biogeography, landscape science, geology, cartography, remote sensing, and GIS technology, social and economic geography of Belarus and the whole world, population geography, territorial organization of the society, tourism geography, geographic ecology and other. The journal reflects activity of scientists from leading institutions and other research establishments that work in the field of geographical and geological theory, methodology and methods; analysis of spatio-temporal laws of territorial environmental and socio-economic systems; problems of dynamic and engineering geology.

Editor-in-chief is Ekaterina A. Antipova, doctor of science (geography), full professor; professor at the department of economic and social geography, faculty of geography and geoinformatics, Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus.

The journal conducts a double-blind peer-review of received manuscripts.

Periodicity is 2 issues per year (May, November).

The journal is directed towards wide range of specialists in geography and geology including professors, lecturers, postgraduate students, master’s degree students and students.

Publication in the journal is free of charge for all authors.

Languages are Russian, Belarusian and English.

The journal is included in the list of the leading periodicals recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Republic of Belarus for publishing doctoral research results in the field of geographical and geological-mineralogical sciences. The journal is included in Russian citation databases such as Elibrary.ru.

The journal is included in the Subscription Catalogue of the Republic of Belarus: the subscription indices are 00337 (for individuals) and 003372 (for institutions).