INFORMATION ON SOME USSR FORESTS FROM LESNOYE KHOZYAYSTVO

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• Publication Date: November 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTI
CENTRAL INE~CFFAFN REPOR
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Forestry
HOW
PUBLISHED Monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED. Feb 1950 - Jun 1951
LANGUAGE Russian
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN TNT MEANING OF ESPIONAGE ACT EO
V. S. C.. D 1 AND Si, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR TNl REVELATION
OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANT MANNEN TO AN UMAVTHORIZTD PERSON IS PRO-
HIEITED MT LAW. REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
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INFORMATION 1950-1951
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
INFORMATION ON SOME USSR FORESTS
FROM "LESNOYE KIIOZYAYSTVO"
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INFORMATION ON SOME USSR FORESTS
FROM "LR NOYE RHOZYAYSTVO"
C Numbers in parentheses rofer to appondod sources.)
The forests of the USSR are not ovenly distributed throughout
the country. Seventy percent are located east of the Urals, where
only one. fifth of the USSR population lives; only thirty percent
are concentrated in the European USSR, where four fifths of the
population lives. (1)
Valuable Forest IBaesife Of the USSR
The government has charged the Ministry of Forestry USSR with
taking measures for preserving an valuable forest massifs in the
steppe and forest-steppe zones of the European USSR. A strict
falling discipline has 'neon established in the designated forests
as well as in forests along the divides of rivers, so that these
forests will be preserved and improved.
Forests in 163 forestry managements with a total area of
4,386,000 hectares have been designated as valuable forests. The
distribution of the valuable forest area according to types of
land is shown in the following table.
Republics Forented U orosted
Natural Planted Total Burnt-Cutting Glades Roads Total'Grand Tota
Forests Forests Over Areas and
Areas Not Re- Clearings
planted
RS'gi'
1,620
101
1,721
73
60
222
24
369
21090
Ukrainian
SSR
256
94
350
4
28
51
6
89
439
.
Kazakh SSR 345
2
347
72
31
349
10
462
809
iz SM, 77
Ki
77
73
40
I13
190'
m
Totals 2,298
197
2,495
149
192
652
40
1,033
3,528
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The following types of forests were included in the category
of valuable forests&
1. Forest massifs in the steppe and forest-steppe zones of
the USSR, which have protective significance (belt pine forests
in West Siberia, Buzuluk Pine Forest).
2. Artificially created forests in steppes where climatic,
soil, and water conditions are extremely unfavorable.
? 3. Forests which at this time serve as examples of steppe
afforestation, shelter-belt planting, and sand afforestation
(Veliko-Anadol' Forestry Management in the Ukraine, Lenin and
Manych forestry managements in Rostov Oblast, and others).
4. Natural "island" forests In the steppe and forest-steppe
zones, which have historical significance as; evidence of former
extensive forests (Chernyy Forest in the Ukraine, Shipov Forest
in Voronezh Oblast, pine forests along the Severnyy Donets River,
and others).
5. Forests in which over a period of years forestry experi-
ments havq been carried on and which, therefore, have scientific
and practical significance (Trostyanets Forestry Management in
the Ievoborezhnays Forest Steppe in the Ukraine, Saval'sk Forest
and Tellermanovskaya Wood in Voronezh Oblast, Raifa and Kazan'
forests in Tatar ASS).
6. Natural forest massifs with standa of rare or valuable
species of trees which serve as sources for propagation material
of these species (Caucasian, Far East, Central Asian species - -
boxtree (Buxus sempervirens), yew (Taxus), cork oak (Quercus euber)#
Amur cork tree (Phellodendron amurense), walnut (Juglans), pereisn
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'i. Plantings of exotic trees serving as bases for seed
collection and acclimatization study.
8. Forest massife which are outstandingly productive and
serve as bases for seed collection.
9. Virgin forests containing very old trees, the preservation
of which is important from a scientific point of view (300-year-
old oak forests along the Dolshaya and Malaya Urrol.'Ln rivers in the
Tranccarpathian .il:raine, Alekseyevka Wood near Moscow, and others).
10. Natural forests containing so many :nut and fruit trees
and berry bushes that harvesting nuts, fruits, and berries from
them may have commercial significance (for?ats with walnut (Juglane
regia), pistachio (Pistacia vera), apple (Males), pear (Pyrue
eommunis), plum (Prunus divaricata), and ether trees In Central
Asia and the Caucasus). I
A partial list of forests designated as valuable forests
follows together with a brief description of each forest.
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Name. Area, and Main Species Brief Description
Cherkassy Pine Forest; A pine massif at the edge of the
43,800 hectares; pine. steppe along the right bank of the
Dnepr. It is the southernmost
occurrence of ordinary pine.
Plyutovsk Forest; An artificially created massif in
a
500 hectares; pine. Kiev Oblast in the forest-steppe,acne.
Chernyy (Black) Forest; An oak forest in Kirovograd Oblast,
31,500 hectares; oak.
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Pyutikhatka Forest;
1,900 hectares; oak.
An artificial forest in the southern
steppes of Dnepropetrovsk Oblast.'
Contains tress up to 60 years old.
Melitopols Forestry Management; An-oak massif in Zaporozh'ye Oblast.-
Veliko-Anadoll Forest;
6,500 hectares; oak.
An artificial forest in Stalino Ob-
Trostyanete Forestry Management; An oak forest on the right bank. of
Poretsk Forest;
9,400 hectares; larch.
Shatilov Forest;
1,000 hectares; oak.
Borisoglebak Massif;
37,300 heotarea; oak.
A forest in Moscow Oblast,
An artificial forest in Orel Oblast
An oak forest in Voronezh Oblast.
A Natural oak forest, a remnant of
16th century forests.
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