Puryaeva, A.Y. The forest protection committee as a body dealing the protective forests in the pre-Revolution forest legislation of Russia in late XIX and early XX centuries (taking the Kazan province as an example).

Abstract: This article of A.Y. Puryaeva is devoted to the key provisions of the Forest Decrees, which established the status of the Forest Protection Committees in Russia in late XIX – early XX centuries, as well as the procedure for implementing responsibility for the violations of the Provisions on Protection of Forests. The author analyzes the judicial case on non-allowed cutting of protective forest in the Kazan province, gives the statistical data on the work of the Kazan Forest Protection Committee in late XIX century.

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