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The demand for natural diamonds has been growing worldwide since the middle of the 20th century. Russia holds a welldeserved position in the international subsoil management connected with development of kimberlite pipes. In Russia, the diamond industry mostly uses the method of open pit mining in the northern regions of Arkhangelsk and Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Natural landscapes in these territories have heavily suffered from the large-scale environmental impact due to mining. Geographically, the diamond-extracting regions lie nearby the Arctic Circle. Here, under conditions of prevailing negative night temperatures within 8–9 months a year, any type vegetation cover damaged by mining recovers extremely slowly. As known, open pit mining of any size exerts a substantial aggravating effect on the natural environment. For this reason, any mineral mining areas, including diamond production, draw close attention of ecologists on all continents. Various schools in Russia and abroad are engaged in studying and handling problems of mining ecology. At the same time, the ecological assessment of mining landscape misses satellite remote sensing which enables global investigation of disturbed lands and over a long period of time (25–30 years). This gap in Russia is bridged by the single integrated R&D school for open pit mining studies using Earth remote sensing (ERS) jointly by the Siberian Federal University, Academician Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology as well as by the Special Design and Engineering Bureau Nauka of the Institute of Computational Technologies, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The scope of the school embraces two trends: the analysis of open pit mining data of metallic (nonmetallic) and coal deposits and the long-term monitoring of initiation and evolution of vegetative ecosystems in the areas of depleted and operating open pit mines and overburden dumps. Environmental professionals in mining are always faced with the same problems and solutions presented on a selective basis in [1–14].

Justification of disturbed land reclamation after open pit mining of kimberlite pipes in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)