Documenting the activity of permanent commissions for nature protection in executive committees of Councils of workers’ deputies in 1960th - 1980th

Abstract

The article analyses activity of the permanent commissions for nature protection in executive committees of Councils of workers’ deputies in 1960th - 1980th. The author characterized the legal commissions activity and showed their everyday problems. Special attention is paid to the processes of documenting and types of documents formed in the course of work of the permanent commissions for nature protection in executive committees of Councils of workers’ deputies of the town of Surgut and the Surgut district. The analysis of office administration and processes of documenting the work of the commissions on conservation permitted to outline a circle of environmental problems for zones of active industrial development of the Siberian North during the Soviet period and allowed to determine information opportunities of office work documentation as source by environmental history of the Siberian North. Further studying in processes of documenting and types of documents of the commissions will give the chance to expand a subject of researches on ecological history of not only the North of Siberia, but also the Russian North in general.