“…Early studies of video and still images and collected specimens showed that the benthic communities were characterized by a high abundance and diversity of meio-, macro-and megafauna, with a pronounced vertical and horizontal zonation in faunal distribution (Sanamyan et al, 2018(Sanamyan et al, , 2021Galkin, Ivin, 2019;Galkin et al, 2019;Vinogradov and Galkin, 2019;Adrianov and Maiorova, 2020;Mordukhovich et al, 2020;Rybakova et al, 2020;Garlitska et al, 2022;Menshenina and Tabachnik, 2022;Tabachnik et al, 2022;Kantor et al, 2023;Nekhaev, 2023).…”