Latushkinb , Laura M. Kipriyanovac and Anna A. Chepyzhenkob 2 Kapitanskaya Str., Sevastopol, 299011, Russia c Institute for Water and Environmental Problems SB RAS 2 Morskoy, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia Received 13.05.2016, received in revised form 21.07.2016, accepted 04.11.2016 In April 2014, Ukraine has stopped the supply of Dnieper river water in the North Crimean Canal, bringing began to a salinity increase in the Gulf of Sivash (the Sea of Azov). <...> Expeditions, which were conducted on Sivash in 2013-2015, have made it possible to evaluate the occurred changes in salinity, the concentration of total suspended solids (TSS), dissolved organic matter, as well as in macro- and meiobenthos, and plankton. <...> Floating mats of green fi lamentous algae have developed intensively along coast, which noted the high number of meiobenthic Harpacticoida. <...> In 2014-2015, species composition of Harpacticoida taxocene in the Sivash was differed from that in 2013; all of the marked species (8) were observed only in the plankton, there were only 2 species in mats, and 3 – on soft bottom. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: snickolai@yandex.ru # 452 # Nickolai V. <...> Transformation of Gulf Sivash (the Sea of Azov) in Conditions of Growing… <...> Трансформация залива Сиваш (Азовское море) в условиях роста солености: изменения мейобентоса и других компонент экосистемы (2013-2015 гг.) <...> Киприяновав а А.А. Латушкинб , Е.В. Ануфриеваа , Н.Г. Сергееваа , Е.А. Колесниковаа , А.А. Чепыженкоб , , Институт морских биологических исследований имени А.О. Ковалевского РАН Морской гидрофизический институт РАН Россия, 299011, Севастополь, ул. <...> Капитанская, 2 в Институт водных и экологических проблем СО РАН, Новосибирский филиал Россия <...>