The article is devoted to public perception of aspects of environmental change that occurred during the industrial revolution and the fuel and energy transition. It is proved that despite the diversity of influences on the environment, aspects of anthropogenic influence were dominant. The public understanding of the influence of technogenic factors on the environment was still largely formed and was in the general sanitary and hygienic context, not yet representing an independent discourse. Despite significant technological expansion across the country, Russian society largely remained «woody» regarding the perception of the problems and trends of the fuel transition.

The need to estimate the cost of expenses caused by a number of reasons, such as the transition of natural resources from the category of «free» goods to goods with value; the need for rational inclusion of natural resources in the production process; ecological planning. There are three approaches to assessing natural resources were in the USSR: cost approach, rental approach, effective approach. The cost approach proposed to evaluate natural resources using the labor theory of value, according to the labor costs for the extraction of one unit of natural resource. The rent approach, on the contrary, helped to consider not only the benefits that a natural resource will bring to the economy, but also what potential damage the use of this natural resource will cause to the state and nature. The effective approach generalized the provisions of both approaches. It was assumed that cost, rental and performance approaches would be used in conjunction, depending on the specific goal. Based on these approaches, it was planned to create a universal methodology for assessing the value of natural resources. However, no unified methodology has been developed. In practice, various methodological documents, including regional ones, were used to assess the value of natural resources

Water use management is an important part of the interaction between society and nature and one of the most complex problems of environmental management. For modern science, relevant issues are related to the search for effective approaches in the field of use and protection of water resources and improvement of the water use system both on a national scale and at the level of individual regions. In this regard, there is a need to explore and take into account the accumulated experience of water management in all its diversity and complexity. The article analyzes various approaches, on the basis of which water use was managed in different countries, including Russia. It is concluded that water management, based on the administrative-territorial principle, has led to contradictions and disproportions between the economic, social and environmental development of socio-economic systems. In the context of the concept of sustainable development, the most justified is a combination of different approaches, taking into account regional characteristics and the specifics of natural and economic systems.

Interaction between archivists and professional historians is of great importance for the study and preservation of historical and cultural heritage of our country in all its regional diversity. The purpose of this article is to show an example of successful interaction between archivists of the State Archive of Ugra and historians of Surgut State Pedagogical University.

Within the framework of Surgut State Pedagogical University's fulfillment of the RNF grant on the theme «The Soviet state and society in the process of comprehension and solution of environmental problems of the North of Western Siberia in 1917–1991», a contract was concluded with the archive for the preparation of NSA (scientific reference apparatus) on the fonds No. R-1 «District Council of People's Deputies of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug and its Executive Committee». Based on the results of this activity a reference book on the sessions of the District Council of Deputies of Laborers of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug was prepared. It provides an opportunity to quickly search for information on issues of interest to the researcher, including the problems of environmental history of the North of Western Siberia. In the future it is planned to transform the directory into a database and to supplement it with information on sessions of city and district Soviets of Workers' Deputies of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. The fruitful cooperation between the State Archive of Yugra and SURSPU will be continued.

In the article, based on the materials of the memoirs of the official of the Resettlement Administration A. A. Tatishchev, identifies the agrarian and ecological capabilities of various regions of Asian Russia in the aspect of organizing the settlement and arrangement of resettled peasants. The main stages of the professional biography of the imperial official of the department as an imperial expert are traced, the approaches and practices used by specialists in determining the agrarian and environmental circumstances that favor or hinder the attraction of the migrant contingent to the formation of settlements in certain areas of the vast region are identified. Deconstruction of the memoir discourse of A. A. Tatishchev, made taking into account the «generic» properties of the source, allows us to establish the course, content and sequence of expert actions that ensured the effectiveness of the resettlement work on the eastern outskirts, to correct the stereotyped ideas about the resettlement bureaucracy as an inert mass of Russian officials, to rethink the results of their work in the context of the reception of the colonization potential of the Asian Russia in a broad chronological and territorial context.

Industrialization in the forestry industry of the Soviet Union in the 1930s was accompanied by the intensification of research on forest development, the placement of enterprises, and the sale of products. The spatial factor became the basis for a number of generalizing works. The purpose of the article is to analyze the works of economists and specialists of the forest industry, carried out during the first five-year plans, concerning the problems of placement of the forest industry and transport of forest products. Both published and unpublished studies of specialists of the USSR State Planning Committee and industry institutes are considered. Results and scientific novelty. The concept of placing the forest industry in the north of the Soviet Union by I. Kapitonov and S. Slavin, complex studies by G. Chizh and V. Vozdvizhensky, G. Benenson and G. Gugel were of great importance. Contradictions and problems that were not previously reflected in regulatory legal documents and the press are revealed. First of all, this concerned the irrational placement of enterprises, the incomplete use of their capacities, and the irrational rail transportation of forest goods.

The Siberian North plays an important role in Russia's domestic policy. Along with the beginning of industrial development, some of the established Siberian settlements turned into large resource-extracting bases. The key goal of all urban settlements in the North of Siberia remained unchanged — adaptation to the climatic conditions of the area and extraction of natural resources by all means available. One of the first regions of Siberia to undergo industrial changes was the Polar Region. Due to the difficult nature of the terrain and unfavorable climatic conditions, Soviet industrial and urban planning policy set itself the task of modernizing previously accumulated knowledge. The emerging large base city of non-ferrous metallurgy, Norilsk, has become a platform for new ideas in matters of urban development in the Far North. Despite the harsh natural and climatic conditions, the population developed the territory of Norilsk. A special urban space was created as a result. The presence of a large industry, a unique geographical location, as well as an active urban planning policy, formed among the townspeople their own attitude towards their place of residence, which was reflected in sources of fiction and publicist.

The city reform of 1870 gave municipal authorities responsibility for improving the urban environment and ensuring safe conditions for public health. City councils and dumas implemented anti-epidemic measures in three main directions: the creation of a regulatory framework that limited the pollution of the urban environment and the spread of epidemic diseases; the involvement of specialists and citizens in the implementation of sanitary supervision of public areas, households, and industrial enterprises; the modernization of urban water infrastructures. The aim of the study is to identify the changes that took place in the urban economy, legislation, and Russian society under the influence of the threat of the emergence and spread of cholera epidemics. The study indicated that the state played a leading role in ensuring the epidemiological safety of cities. There were significant changes in sanitary legislation, new social institutions were created to ensure the implementation of anti-epidemic measures and sanitary supervision, and from the 1890s the state provided cities with financial resources to improve water supply conditions.

In the second half of the 19th century, construction of the first water pipeline began in Western Siberia, which began operating in Tyumen. Later, water infrastructure will appear in other cities in the region. The latest installation of the water pipeline will begin in the north of Western Siberia, and the full launch will take place only after the discovery of Big Oil. Doctors will be the main experts in the construction of water pipelines all these years. Epidemics and their prevention were the main argument in the dialogue with the authorities regarding the allocation of funds for such expensive facilities. At the same time, doctors assessed the state of nature and pointed out to the authorities the existing problems of space pollution.

The article deals with the expedition activity of D. A. Klements in 1883–1885, aimed at studying the river systems of a number of large West Siberian rivers. His major achievement was a thor-ough mapping of the river systems he studied, which clarified the existing maps. On the basis of his letters, messages from his expeditions, as well as published reports, it is established that D. Klements was able to make several serious scientific discoveries in particular, he established the old riverbed of the Yenisey River, found and described the sources of the Abakan River.

The article examines the history of expeditions in Siberia and Pechora plain by the British ornithologist, manufacturer and traveler Henry Seebohm (1832–1895) on the basis of archival documents and his travelogues. The paper analyzes two trips made in the 1870s to the basin of Pechora River and the Yenisei Tundra in order to study the migration routes of birds going through the United Kingdom, as well as the discovery of new and previously unknown species. The obtained knowledge during the Seebohm’s travels allowed us to significantly expand our understanding of the diversity of birds and their habitats in the Russian Empire in the second half of the XIXth century. It is important to note that the results of Seebohm’s ornithological study are still relevant and have valid scientific significance for the modern scholar research. Henry Seebohm's scientific expeditions to Siberia have important historical significance in the field of nature research, especially in the context of studying various bird species in this region. In addition, Henry Seebohm's scientific expeditions are an important source for research on the environmental history of the Arctic North; the ornithologist's books contain unique descriptions of the life and customs of the indigenous peoples as well as the natural phenomena of the Russian North, which he described while traveling along the Pechora and Yenisei rivers.

The modern citizen does not need to use several living creatures significantly larger than him in size — horses to get from A to point B. However, for the Russian capital city of the XIX century. XX centuries. these ungulates were habitual inhabitants. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that Moscow and St. Petersburg was a zooanthropic city, that is, a place where the destinies of people and animals intersect, which also contributed to history. The main animals in the urbanizing city were horses, they represented public transport, private prestigious transport, carried firefighters, police and theater actors, and also accompanied citizens in any situation: from calling a midwife to a woman in labor to delivering a coffin to a cemetery.

The article analyzes the implementation of a policy to restore the number of sable in the Khanty-Mansiysk National Okrug — Yugra in the 1950s. With the help of a study of an array of documents devoted to the production and accounting of Barguzin sables, the author comes to the conclusion that significant amounts of the country's resources are involved: material resources; railway, aviation and horse-drawn vehicles; labor resources. The author shows that a significant proportion of the successful completion of the task depended on the hunters.

This article analyzes the peculiarities of conflicts over industrial pollution of rivers, based on the study of the Petrovsky Distillery case that occurred in 1937–38. The researchers pay attention to the frequent and rather polarized assessments of historians who have studied pollution issues in the context of Soviet environmental history. They examine how public organizations and local government institutions were involved in addressing pollution problems during the industrialization era and how the state prioritized between industrial growth and environmental protection. The authors find that such decisions were made more quickly in the Soviet period than in the late Russian Empire. However, they emphasize that this was partly due to the lack of active participation of local self-government and civic associations, which only initiated investigations, while decisions depended on higher state authorities.

In this article, the author considers the process of implementing state policy in the field of use and protection of the country's water resources. In the context of active industrial and petrochemical construction, the state faced a kind of dilemma. On the one hand, the emergence and development of environmental legislation required the protection and rational use of the country's water resources. On the other hand, active production construction and the need to fulfill state plans put in the first place the commissioning of enterprises, and only then the construction of various treatment facilities. In this regard, the main purpose of the article is to analyze the problem of water use in the USSR in the 1960th-1970th.

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 materials of the Russian State Archive of Economics: fund 436 (Ministry of Reclamation and Water Management), as well as fund 4375 (State Planning Committee).

It should be noted that the presented work has sufficient scientific novelty. The study of the peculiarities of the implementation of state policy in the field of the use of the country's water resources in domestic and foreign historiography has become widespread over the past few years. However, the work devoted to this issue is of a local nature, without comparative analysis with the general situation in the country. The proposed study is intended to fill that gap in part.

The author concludes that despite the adoption of environmental legislation and the strengthening of sanitary supervision of enterprises, economic interests were put above environmental consequences.

The north of the Tyumen region is a unique geographical region with a rich natural resource potential.

Since the mid-twentieth century, the Siberian North has been an important strategic object for the economic development of the state, because large oil and gas fields were discovered. A period of intensive development of the territory's natural resources began. This radically changed the system of environmental management and the image of the Siberian North. The region has acquired a pronounced industrial orientation. Traditional sectors of the economy faded into the background, but the state pursued a policy to intensify them.

Almost all natural resources were involved in the development of industry: oil, gas, timber, fish. The rapid nature of their involvement corresponded to the ideas of society and the state to subjugate nature and use its resources to the maximum. At the same time, the fact that the fragile northern ecosystem is extremely sensitive to various types of industrial pollution has often been ignored by industrial authorities.

Rivers, including small ones, are of great economic importance in the life of society: fishing, transport links.

The region’s small rivers were originally used for fishing and rafting. with the development of river transport, they were used for transport, which increased the anthropogenic burden on them. The article reveals ecological aspects of water use of small rivers of the region in the context of industrial development of natural resources.

The purpose of this article is to determine the consequences of the industrial development of the North of the Tyumen region in the second half of the twentieth century for the small rivers of the region

In the article, the authors conduct an excursion into the history of the development of the order system of the Russian Empire, starting from the end of the XVII century and ending with the first quarter of the XX century. The main purpose of the study is to determine the reasons for the transformation of the complex of personal awards in the specified period, to determine the advantages and disadvantages of the emerging award system. The authors relied on both historical materials and studies of early periods. The scientific novelty consists in the systematization of changes that concerned both the floristic complex itself and the organization of the functioning of this institute. The practical significance lies in the fact that certain elements, based on the political and socio-economic situation, can be taken into account by state authorities in the development of the institute of state awards both at the federal and regional levels.

The article analyzes the problem of the composition of the Cabinet of Ministers from an insufficiently studied perspective of the subjective influence of members on the development of the highest state body. In the course of the study, the author undertakes an analytical experiment on the formation of a cumulative chronicle of the history of the Cabinet and its periodization according to the criterion of changing ministerial «compositions». The purpose of this experiment is to search for signs of non-obvious relationships between personal changes in the «presence» and the processes of transformation of the structural and functional appearance of the institution of higher authority. As a result of the study, it turned out that among the factors evolution of the Cabinet, from the point of view of the personal component, both elements of statics (a stable core of the composition that ensured continuity) and dynamics (the sporadic inclusion of new persons, when elements of novelty penetrated in forms of functioning of the institution, thanks to or against their will). On the basis of the presented factual overview of the history of the Cabinet, the researcher makes a conclusion about the stage at which the most numerous decrees related to the competence of this body were issued, as well as to determine the path for introducing new methods and forms of its activity. At the same time, the research carried out made it possible to pose the scientific problem more clearly, and the findings obtained in work raise new questions that can become starting points for further investigation of the topic.

The article is devoted to the study of main directions of the government's policy regarding the role of theater in the organization of educational work in secondary and lower educational institutions of Siberia in the late XIX — early XX centuries. The characteristic of their implementation is given. The basis for the study were circular orders of government bodies, rules for students, minutes of meetings of pedagogical councils of educational institutions, materials coming from the students themselves. Consideration of the implementation of state policy in the field of interaction between theater and school was carried out within the framework of comparative-historical and historical-genetic methods, taking into account the principle of consistency. As a result of the study, it was concluded that during the period under review, the government policy regarding the possibility of using theater resources in educational work was, in general, restrictive, which did not correspond to the changes taking place in society.