The Research Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Fluvial Processes, named after N.I. Makkaveev, was established at the Faculty of Geography over 50 years ago. The laboratory's main activities included coordinating university research on issues related to soil and gully erosion, as well as researching river channel regimes and estuaries. In 1985, the Rector established the Interuniversity Scientific Coordination Council (ISCC), which currently unites over 70 universities from Russia, the CIS, and other countries, to address erosion and channel process issues at Lomonosov Moscow State University. The council organizes annual plenary meetings, regular seminars for young scientists, and thematic workshops. These activities were accompanied by active publishing activity, which has been an integral part of the formation and development of the scientific community. Since 1970, the Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Fluvial Processes has been publishing a collection of articles entitled "Soil Erosion and Channel Processes". In this collection, articles by members of the Laboratory as well as members of other laboratories of the Faculty of Physics and Faculty of Soil Science are published. These articles deal with sediment transport on slopes and in river channels. A total of 22 volumes indexed in RISC have been published so far. Since 1990, under the auspices of ISCC, a new collection called "Erosion and Channel Processes" (7 volumes) has been published. From 2003, another collection titled "Erosion, Channel, and Estuarine Processes: Research of Young Scientists" (13 volumes) has also been published. In today's world, where the issue of preserving land resources and improving soil fertility is becoming increasingly important, as well as the problems of surface water pollution caused by sediments and pollutants carried from river basins, the development of water transportation, the siltation of reservoirs, and irrigation networks are all becoming more urgent. Against the backdrop of increasing human impact and climate change, it has been decided to create the journal "Soil erosion and river channel processes".