Activity of the Tyumen Regional Branch of the All-Russian Society for Nature Protection in the Second Half of the 1950s - the First Half of the 1960s

Abstract

The All–Russian Society for Nature Protection (hereinafter referred to as the VOOP) was a voluntary mass organization whose activities were aimed at involving the public in actively contributing to the activities of the party and the government for the protection, rational use and reproduction of the country's natural resources. The relevance of the appeal to the history of the Society for the Protection of nature, on the one hand, is explained by the little-studied nature of this problem at the regional level, on the other hand, it is associated with the increased interest in the modern world in environmental problems, as well as the search for ways and directions to maintain ecological balance in the world. The Soviet experience can be applied to the organization of volunteer organizations and the implementation of environmental policy of the state. The purpose is to identify and characterize the main activities of the Nature Protection Society in the Tyumen region. The novelty of the study lies in the consideration of the activities of one of the regional nature conservation societies, which was not the subject of special study. As a result, the author came to the conclusion that the EPO did not have its own mechanisms of influence on the organization of environmental activities, due to the departmental disunity of environmental management practices in the country. Therefore, the regional branch of the VOOP was largely delimited by educational work with the population through periodicals, television, radio, organizing contests, exhibitions, holding lectures and talks, and also carried out public control over compliance with the Law on Nature Protection.