The article assesses natural landscape conditions for forming floods on the Alazeya river and their influence on the hydrological regime. Evaluation of the moistening mode showed that an increase in the water volume is caused by an increasing amount of precipitation. The factor determining variability of the annual river flow is precipitation in the warm period of the previous year. The degree of susceptibility of the river landscapes to various changes was assessed. Permafrost, climatic and biological indicators (ice content of surface sediments, temperature of frozen rocks, biological productivity, conditions of heat supply and moisture) were taken into account. It was determined that tundra and northern taiga lake-thermocarstic landscapes are susceptible to anthropogenic effects.

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The ‘Power of Siberia’ gas pipeline route passes through the territories of South-West and South Yakutia, where the natural conditions are characterized by severe climatic, complex engineering geological and geocryological conditions. A variety of environmental conditions are mandatory for construction and operation in different areas with long-term soil and hazardous geocryological processes: debris flow formation, aufeis formation, soil heaving, thermokarst, thermosuffosion. Aufeis formation processes will be of particular importance during the construction of the pipeline. As a degree of their occurrence in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), it should be mentioned the Aldan upland. Aufeis occur almost in the majority of local stream valleys as a small areas of ice formations, basically confined to floodplain and riverbed. Aufeis areas had been identified in trace areas by the method of deciphering satellite images within the territory of the hydrogeological zones of the Lena-Amur interfluve. As a result of remote studies, territorial and quantitative distributions in hydrogeological zones have been identified. As a result of the monitoring results the areas of each aufeis are determined and their contours are decoded due to satellite images of recent years (2018-2020).