Environmental protection issues in the first decades of the Soviet state: a source study

the article presents the results of a source study reflecting the features of environmental protection in the first decades of the Soviet state in the context of the development of the textile and light industry. The relevant historical sources that reflected environmental protection issues at the legislative level have been identified; the content of the selected sources has been analyzed; aspects of the environmental agenda reflected in the analyzed sources have been highlighted. The study used the historical-comparative method, the historical-systemic method, and the method of historical periodization. In the first decades of the Soviet state, measures to protect and regulate the use of nature and certain natural resources were enshrined in law. The following conclusions are formulated: firstly, on the enshrining at the legislative level in the first decades of the Soviet state of measures to protect and regulate the use of nature and certain natural resources; secondly, on paying special attention to the issues of protecting natural objects that were in danger of extinction, on the creation of nature conservation zones and reserves; thirdly, on taking into account the possibilities of a departmental approach to various problems for solving nature conservation issues; Fourthly, on the consideration of the problem of rational use of natural resources primarily from the perspective of socialist construction and the active development of industry, and not from the perspective of environmental protection; fifthly, on the absence of a unified legislative framework regulating the negative manifestations of production processes in the textile and light industries.

nature, ecology, environment, nature protection, historical sources, the USSR, the Soviet Union, textile and light industry