The article “Deferrivibrio essentukiensis sp. nov., gen. nov., a Representative of Deferrivibrionaceae fam. nov., Isolated from the Subsurface Aquifer of Caucasian Mineral Drinking Waters”, written by D. G. Zavarzina, M. I. Prokofeva, V. A. Pikhtereva, A. A. Klyukina, A. A. Maslov, A. Yu. Merkel, and S. N. Gavrilov, was originally published electronically in Springer-Link on 28 March 2022 without Open Access. After publication in volume 91, issue 2, pages 143-159 the authors decided to make the article an Open Access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed to © The Author(s) 2022 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, CC BY), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction of a work in any medium or format, as long as you cite the original author(s) and publication source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.