“…is the second major industrial stone fruit crop in the world. It is widespread in European countries, Iran, Turkey, USA and others Richter, 2018;Potter, 2012). In the Russian Federation, the main regions for apricot growing are Crimea, the Caucasus, southern part of Central Black Earth Economic Region and the Urals (Korzin;Mesyats, 2018;Kramarenko, 2018;Nozdracheva, 2008).…”