Lenin Approves the First Soviet Nature Preserve
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Ecology and the Environment Series
- Categories: Environmental Issues
- Subcategories: Laws, Acts, Legislation, Organizations, Agencies, Institutions, Communism, Communists, Ecology, Environment, Conservation
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, Russian/Former Soviet States History
- Geographical Location: Soviet Union, Russia, Europe
- Date: February 1, 1919
Article abstract: In 1919, the Astrakhan zapovednik became the first nature reserve established under Soviet auspices, after which general legislation established a nationwide system of nature reserves in the Soviet Union.
Summary of Event
In January of 1919, when the Russian Civil War was at its height and the new Soviet government was struggling to survive, Deputy Commissar Nikolai Pod’iapol’skii traveled to Moscow to submit requests to the commissar of education, Anatoly Lunacharsky, to establish a university in Astrakhan and set aside a portion...
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