Historical and cultural value of woody plants

Abstract

The exploration, settlement and development of the Siberian region are associated with a variety of personalities: from exiles, both political and criminal; from the Cossacks of the 17th century to the emperors of the 19th century, famous writers and discoverers of different historical eras. Historical events took place in the city, it was visited by famous Russian and foreign representatives, and now there are outstanding Siberian people whose life and activities are connected with natural places and even individual unique plants, both local flora and introduced species. Currently, in Krasnoyarsk, there is practically no activity to identify unique trees of historical and biological interest, to give them official status, to preserve and protect them. At the same time, on the territory of Krasnoyarsk Krai, in accordance with the Federal Law “On Specially Protected Natural Territories,” regional specially protected natural complexes have been identified. There are 114 objects in total, the largest is Ergaki Nature Park, 41 are nature reserves, 72 are natural monuments, of which 22 are botanical. Currently, in 2010, in Russia, the committees of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation established the All-Russian program “Trees – Monuments of Living Nature”. The goal of the Program is to search and preserve unique old-growth trees that are of natural, cultural and historical value for the Russian Federation, giving them the status of state-protected natural objects, forming a unified National Register of old-growth trees in Russia, environmental and patriotic education of the younger generation. The article presents the winning trees of this competition from different years. Krasnoyarsk Krai does not participate in this program. It is also important for the Krasnoyarsk Krai to search for unique trees and give them the status of a protected natural object that has natural, cultural and even historical value. In Krasnoyarsk, four types of objects can be distinguished: old-growth native species growing in natural and artificial plantings; introduced plants, which homeland is in other landscape zones not typical for our city. They are of environmental biological value; trees of historical and cultural value; trees of modern historical and cultural value.