The 2nd Interles-Lisino Forest Summit will take place on June 22-25, 2010

The date of Interles-Lisino Forest Summit was approved at the meeting of St. Peterbusrg International Forestry Forum Organizing Committee which took place on August 28, 2009 at the office of Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Northwest Federal District. The 2nd Interles-Lisino Forest Summit and the 13th International Specialized Exhibition on technologies and equipment for forestry, logging and primary woodworking in the forest INTERLES will take place on June 22-25, 2010 at Lisinsky Forest College in Lisino-Korpus town, Leningrad Oblast. Federal Forestry Agency of the Russian Federation and RESTECT Exhibition Company are the organizers.

The Committee for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Leningrad oblast supports the Summit and Exhibition Interles.

The Head of the Committee Alexander Stepchenko has signed the invitation to Forestry enterprises for participation in the summit and Exhibition.

The events program of ROSLESHOZ (Federal Forestry Agency) on Forestry summit 'INTERLES-LISINO' is published.

You can find the program in section events program.

LSR Group has launched a new wood processing plant in Leningrad oblast

The joint project of Austrian Company Mayr-Melnhof Holz Gmbh and LSR group was implemented by the MM-Efimovsky with the support of the Leningrad regional government.

The first stage of the plant is a wood-sawing enterprise with the area of 24 hectares. The construction of the first stage took less than three years from the cornerstone ceremony. According to the LSR Press Release, it is now one of the most advanced plants of the region.

There is a land lot reserved for the Phase 2 of the project, an LVL producing plant construction of which is planned to be launched in 2010. Thus the total area of the plant including access roads and a railway spur will total to 42 hectares.

The plant will be the largest enterprise in the North-Western Region of Russia. Its annual capacity after reaching the targets will make up over 650 thousand cubic meters of incoming round timber, finished product volume will make up 350 thousand cubic meters of industrial wood a year. The main consumers of the new wood processing enterprise are the companies of construction and furniture industries. Investment volume to the project made up about 80 mln Euro.

The Ministry of Agriculture will control usage efficiency of the forest deductions from the federal budget by the regions

A working group will be created under the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation in the nearest future for evaluation of usage efficiency of the means allotted from the federal budget to Russian constituent entities for exercising of their authorities in the sphere of forest industry. This was announced by Elena Skrynnik, the Ministry Head, at the session on the State, Problems and Development Prospects of the Forestry industry of the Russian Federation held on April 28, 2009.

According to the press-service of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, in 2008 17.1 billion Rubles were transferred from the federal budget for the executive bodies of Russian constituent entities to perform their authorities in the sphere of forestry relations. That is 40% more than in 2007.
The regions allotted 3.6 billion Rubles for the forest industry. In 2009 17.6 billion Rubles are scheduled to be transferred for those purposes from the federal budget.

Alexei Badjanov, the Deputy Minister said at the session that according to Russian Forest Code the regions now have full powers in organisation of forest use, protection, regeneration, maintenance, as well as in the domain of state forest control and monitoring.

The federal center still keeps the function of legal regulation of forest relations and formation of the state forest policy, as well as control of performance of the given authorities by Russian constituent entities and usage of subventions.

Alexei Savinov, the Head of the Federal Forestry Agency provided the information about the current situation regarding forest fires in the Russian Federation. He emphasized that the number of forest fires in the Russian Federation is twice less, and the area passed by fire is now 3.5 times less as compared with the same period in 2008. As of April 28 this year about 3.5 thousand forest fires were registered since the beginning of the fire season. The area passed by fire amounted to105 thousand hectares.

In general, it was mentioned at the session that the forest industry of Russia is entering a new stage of development based on the principles of long-term forest planning, oriented to stable functioning of the forestry complex, increase of its impact into social and economic progress of the country.