Activities of the Permanent Nature Protection Commissions for the Protection of Water Resources of Western Siberia in the 1960s — 1970s (Regional Experience of the KHMAO and Omsk)

This study is devoted to the study of the water protection aspect of the activities of the standing commissions on nature protection of the executive committees of the councils of workers' deputies. Permanent commissions arose as a result of the adoption in 1960 of the "Law on the Protection of Nature in the RSFSR." The scope of their competence included the need to control pollution of water resources. In the second half of the twentieth century, large-scale industrial construction unfolded throughout Western Siberia. Active industrial oil production in the northern regions of Western Siberia raised the question of the need to create a processing base in the southern territories. However, such industrial construction could not but affect the ecology of this region. The most negatively industrial development affected the river systems of the Ob-Irtysh basin.
In this regard, the main purpose of the study is to study the regional experience of the activities of the permanent commissions for nature protection in the protection of water resources of the Ob-Irtysh basin. As a methodological tool, the concept of environmental history was used, which considers the process of interaction between man and nature in a historical context. The source base of the study was the funds of the State Archive of Ugra and the Historical Archive of the Omsk Region: minutes of meetings of standing commissions, as well as materials of deputy inspections.
It should be noted that the presented work has sufficient scientific novelty. The study of the activities of permanent commissions for the protection of nature in national historiography has become widespread over the past few years. However, the work on this issue is local in nature, without comparative analysis with other regions. The proposed study is intended to fill that gap in part.
As a result, the author concludes that both the southern and northern territories of Western Siberia had similar problems related to the safety of existing water sources. The absence of water treatment facilities and the postponement of their construction, pollution with oil and its processing products, as well as municipal and domestic pollution all this united, as well as a large industrialized city, and the oil production center that is beginning to develop. Despite the fairly wide range of powers, the commissions presented as a whole could rarely change the current picture.

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