Order No. 112 of the Ministry of Natural Resources validating Instruction on hydrographic zoning of the national territory. Country/Territory Russian Federation Document type Regulation Date 2007 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Water Keyword Zoning Basin/catchment/watershed Governance Inland waters 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 This Instruction establishes the modalities of subdivision of the national territory into hydrographic units – river basins (basin level) and sub-basins (sub-basin level). It establishes: (a) principles and criteria of subdivision into hydrographic units; (b) modalities of determination and description of boundaries of hydrographic units; and (c) composition of the documentation for validation of the number of hydrographic units and boundaries thereof. This Instruction shall be used as guidelines by the Federal Water Resources Agency for delimitation, registration and validation of the number of hydrographic units and boundaries thereof. Hydrographic zoning (delimitation of hydroghraphic units) shall be carried out with a view of elaboration of complex waterbodies management and protection scheme and it shall be based upon hydrographic and geographic approach to zoning. Full text Russian Website www.garant.ru