Activity of regional authorities in the north of Western Siberia in realization of the state environmental policy in the second half of the XX century

Article discussed problems of activity of regional authorities in realization of the state environmental policy in the north of Western Siberia in the second half of the XX century. Chronological frameworks of research cover the period from 1950th to the 2000th. This chronological interval was chosen because soviet environmental policy had been developing from the middle of the XX century. The main problem of the environmental policy development was state approach to nature management. In 1990th new state system was create in Russia. This system was based on transfer to regions some of the government functions. It could give region the possibility to make their own environmental policy. Territorial framework covers the territory of the North of Western Siberia. This region had a strategic importance for development of national economy from the discovery of oil and gas fields. The main goal of the state policy was to stimulate economic growth. The questions of environmental protection often were without any attention. The main reason of the environmental deterioration was industrial development of the North of Western Siberia. Fistful function of environmental protection was transferred to industrial factory. They had to control level of environmental pollution. However interests of departments were concentrated on performance of the operational indexes lowered by the State Planning Committee of RSFSR. Nature protection activity at the factory was carried out poorly. Nature protection activity of regional authorities during the second half of the XX century was reduced to obey the environmental law. The specialized commissions on conservation for control this law were created in region. The commissions made decisions on the punishment of the ecological legislation. The decisions of the commission had mainly declarative character because any effective law mechanism did not exist. The industrial factories were the main reason of environmental pollution, and they ignore the nature protection requirements. The new period in development of region environmental legislation started in early 1990th. In this time new federal state system was created. But that did not allow changing environmental situation in region. The peculiarity of this is that based on various archival documents the author makes an attempt to analyze state measures for nature protection and rational nature management in the territory of the North of Western Siberia in second half of XX century.

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