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Ministerial Decree of the RSFSR No. 501 on the modalities of acknowledgement of water objectives environmental or cultural monuments.

Country/Territory
Russian Federation
Document type
Regulation
Date
1974
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Environment gen., Water
Keyword
Use restrictions Cultural heritage Protected area Recreational water use
Geographical area
Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific
Abstract

The Council of Ministers decrees to establish that non-declared protected rare and notable water basins (rivers, lakes or their parts, section of sea, springs, falls, geysers and so on), representing characteristic or unique examples of natural conditions of single specific areas and physical and geographical regions, precious for scientific, cultural, cognitive and recreational purposes are acknowledged environmental monuments. Water basins acknowledged environmental monuments, as a rule, are handed over under protection of enterprises, departments and organizations. Acknowledgement of water basins environmental monuments is carried out by the Councils of Ministers of autonomous republics, regional and provincial administration, city councils of Moscow and Leningrad. The decision to acknowledge water basin environmental monument must envisage the main conditions of water uses and must contain the list of enterprises, departments and organizations to which the above-mentioned environmental monuments are handed over for protection and the modalities of information of the population and of the organizations concerned of this decision. The Regulation contains the form of “Safeguard of water basins acknowledged environmental monuments.”

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