The article covers the legal regulation of forestry during the great Patriotic war, analyzes the organizational activities of the People’s Commissariat of forest industry (Narkomles), the Main Department of forest protection and plantations (glavlesohrany), the Main Department for firewood (Glavzagotdrov) and the State forest inspection. The article summarizes the experience of restructuring forestry in emergency conditions, forms, methods and methods of mobilization. Material resources and human potential are defined in terms of their intensification and possibilities. A brief historio-graphical overview on the main research areas of the scientists working in forestry, analyzes the principal legal issues in government resolutions aimed at the forestry industry in the extreme conditions of the great Patriotic war, substantiates the objective need of forest products for the war its indispensable for this period due to the narrowing base. Changes in forest legislation are being considered step by step in accordance with the changing conditions of war. The Resolution of the SNC of the USSR of April 23, 1943 “on the procedure for allocating logging areas in the forests of the state Fund of the USSR and on the logging Fund for 1943”, a document that defined the division of all the country’s forests by national economic value into three groups with the establishment of an appropriate regime for forest management and forest use, laid down a strategic line for managing the country’s forests for the long term. The types of punishments for unauthorized logging of stands, organizational measures to implement the plan for firewood and wood harvesting and fighting fires in wartime conditions are considered.

legal regulation, the Great Patriotic war, Narkomles, Paulisakson. Glavzagotdrov, forest legislation, forestry

Chernykh Vladimir Vasilievich – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Philosophy, Psychology and Social and Humanitarian Disciplines, East Siberian Institute Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (110, Lermontov st., Irkutsk, 664071, Russian Federation), e-mail: tchernykhsa@mail.ru

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