The Role of the Komi Nature Protection Commission of the USSR Academy of Sciences Branch in the Formation of a System of Specially Protected Natural Territories in the Komi Republic in the 1960s and 1970s
https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2025.99.6.009
Abstract
In modern Russia, work on the creation of specially protected natural areas continues as a part of the national project «Environmental Wellbeing». A significant contribution to the formation of the specially protected natural areas system was made by academic Nature Protection Commissions of various levels, which in the 1950-1970s began research work on the nature protection and the creation of nature reserves, wildlife sanctuaries, and the security of special landscape elements throughout the USSR. The article is the result of an analytical study of documents from the Scientific Archives of the Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which reveal the contribution of employees of the Commission for Nature Protection in the process of creating a system of protected areas in our northern republic in the 60-70s of the 20th century. The presented material substantiates the conclusion about the important contribution of the regional academic Commission for Nature Protection to the formation of mechanisms and practices of environmental protection activities that are important for modern environmental policy in both the Komi Republic and Russia as a whole.
About the Author
S. V. Yurova
Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science Federal Research Centre «Komi Science Centre, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences» ; State General Education Institution of the Komi Republic «Republican Center of Education»
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Yurova Svetlana Valerievna — graduate student of the Department of humanitarian interdisciplinary researches, Head of the Center for Distance Learning
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Yurova S.V. The Role of the Komi Nature Protection Commission of the USSR Academy of Sciences Branch in the Formation of a System of Specially Protected Natural Territories in the Komi Republic in the 1960s and 1970s. Surgut State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2025;(6(99)):95-103. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2025.99.6.009
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