The Neoproterozic Timanide Orogen of eastern Baltica: introduction, D G Gee and V Pease • Neoproterozoic, passive-margin, sedimentary systems of the Kanin Peninsula, and Northern and Central Timan, NW Russia, D Roberts, A Siedlecka and V G Olovyanishnikov • Riphean and Vendian sedimentary sequences of the Timanides and Uralides, the eastern periphery of the East European Craton, A V Maslov • Late Neoproterozoic sedimentation in the Timan foreland, D Grazhdankin • Structural and tectonic development of the Timanide orogen, D Roberts and V G Olovyanishnikov • Neoproterozoic high-grade metamorphism of the Kanin Peninsula, Timanide Orogen, northern Russia, H Lorenz, A M Pystin, V G Olovyanishnikov and D G Gee • The Vendian alkaline igneous suite of northern Timan: ion microprobe U-Pb zircon ages of gabbros and syenite, A N Larionov, V A Andreichev and D G Gee • Late Neoproterozoic granitoid magmatism in the basement to the Pechora Basin, NW Russia: geochemical constraints indicate westward subduction beneath NE Baltica, V Pease, E Dovzhikova, L Beliakova and D G Gee • Protolith ages of eclogites, Marun-Keu Complex, Polar Urals, Russia: implications for the pre- and early Uralian evolution of the northeastern European continental margin, J Glodny, V Pease, P Montero, H Austrheim and A I Rusin • The Dzela complex, Polar Urals, Russia: a Neoproterozoic island arc, D Remizov and V Pease • Timanian blueschist-facies metamorphism in the Kvarkush metamorphic basement, Northern Urals, Russia, M Beckholmen and J Glodny • The Precambrian rocks of Novaya Zemlya, E A Korago, G N Kovaleva, B G Lopatin and V V Orgo • Early Palaeozoic unconformity across the Timanides, NW Russia, O K Bogolepova and D G Gee • Late Cambrian relative age constraints by acritarchs on the post-Timanian deposition on Kolguev Island, Arctic Russia, M Moczydlowska, M Stockfors and L Popov • Northeastern and northwestern margins of Baltica in Neoproterozoic time: evidence from the Timanian and Caledonian Orogens, A Siedlecka, D Roberts, J P Nystuen and V G Olovyanishnikov • Svalbard: a fragment of the Laurentian margin, D G Gee and A M Teben'kov • Grenvillian and Caledonian tectono-magmatic activity in northeasternmost Svalbard, A Johansson, A N Larionov, D G Gee, Y Ohta, A M Tebenkov and S Sandelin • Neoproterozoic Orogeny along the margins of Siberia, V A Vernikovsky, A E Vernikovskaya, V Pease and D G Gee •