Липенков1 1Арктический и Антарктический научно-исследовательский институт, Санкт-Петербург, Россия; 2Институт наук о Земле, Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет, Санкт-Петербург, Россия; 3Центр льда и климата, Университет Копенгагена, Копенгаген, Дания *ekaykin@aari.ru Variations of snow accumulation rate in Central Antarctica over the last 250 years A.A. <...> Petersburg, Russia; 3Center for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark *ekaykin@aari.ru Received November 8, 2016 Keywords: Antarctica, ice cores, paleoclimate, snow accumulation rate, stable water isotopes. <...> Summary The present-day global climate changes, very likely caused by anthropogenic activity, may potentially present a serious threat to the whole human civilization in a near future. <...> In this study we compare the present-day data of instrumental observations of the air temperature and snow accumulation rate performed in Central Antarctica (the Vostok station) with the reconstructed paleogeographic data on a variability of these parameters in the past. <...> First of all, the Vostok station is shown to be differing from other East Antarctic stations due to relatively higher rate of warming (1.6 °C per 100 years) since 1958. <...> At the same time, according to paleogeographic data, from the late eighteenth century to early twenty-first one the total warming amounted to about 1 °C, which is consistent with data from other Antarctic regions. <...> As for the snow accumulation rate, the paleogeographic data on this contain a certain part of noise that does not allow reliable concluding. <...> This means that with further rise of temperature in Central Antarctica, the rate of solid precipitation accumulation will increase there, thus partially compensating increasing of the sea level <...>