“…The niobium atoms are arranged in distorted coordination octahedra [6,10], the niobium-oxygen octahedra are bound by oxygen vertices, forming chains or blocks [3,6,[10][11][12][13][14]. Previous studies of the magnetic properties of solid solutions of niobate of bismuth of cubic modification containing paramagnetic ions of 3d-elements [15][16][17] have shown that, due to the charge imbalance and highly distorted coordination polyhedron in the dilute solutions, the paramagnetic atoms were preferably in the oxidized state, e.g. Ni(III), Mn(III), Mn(IV).…”