ECOLOGICAL MONITORING OF THE CASPIAN SEA IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Hydrocarbons prospecting and extraction in the northern Caspian Sea needs a competent and effective organizing of these territories monitoring. The article provides the description of the current monitoring system in the area of oil companies' activity in the Caspian Sea, its main disadvantages and perspectives of its development. At present moment, one of the ecological monitoring significant imperfections is the absence of cooperation and interconnection between different organizations, which perform the monitoring. The offered integral approach allows to avoid this imperfection. For its implementation an interdepartmental net of monitoring stations should be developed as well as endorsement of monitoring terms and efficient distribution of functions between monitoring organizers should be achieved.