STATE REGULATION OF SOCIAL AND NATURAL ASPECTS OF FOREST MANAGEMENT AND WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN THE USSR IN 1917-1939
The article analyzes the mechanisms of state regulation of forest management and water management in agricultural industry of the European part of the USSR through the prism of environmental history. The research is based on regulatory legal acts and ordinances of party bodies in 1917-1939. The author maintains that Soviet leaders attached great importance to rational nature management and national resources preservation. The author concludes that in the pre-war period, the Soviet government focused on problems associated with forest management and water management. Environmental degradation resulted in a more complex system of forest management and water management. Legal measures of forest protection and water conservation are a part of complex measures aimed at adverse phenomena (droughts, dry winds, etc.) were long-term. The Soviet State had inherited the pre-revolutionary nature conservation policy.