The Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko managed to defend in court the boundaries of the Chelyabinsk city pine forest
Press Release, 7.10.2021
Photo: Map. The Chelyabinsk city pine forest / Collage by the Press Service of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko
Left: the boundaries of the forest before 2011.
Right: the boundaries of the forest now.
The court satisfied the collective lawsuit filed by Andrei Talevlin, Deputy Chairman of the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko, together with human rights activist Vladimir Kazantsev, and returned the plot of the Chelyabinsk urban pine forest seized ten years ago to the boundaries of a specially protected natural area. Also, the Miass and Monakha rivers floodplains remained included into the protected territory of the forest.
The Chelyabinsk urban forest is a natural monument of regional significance, a relict pine forest in the centre of Chelyabinsk. The boundaries of the natural monument were changed in 2011 in favour of construction companies that planned to carry out construction works in this territory.
In 2020, it was decided to build a building for a children’s hospital in the forest, for which it was decided to cut down several hectares of forest.
This year, after lengthy litigation, a collective lawsuit filed in court and numerous publications about the role of the Chelyabinsk City Forest, the court sided with environmental activists and returned the boundaries of the forest to what they were in 2011.
Posted: October 13th, 2021 under Environmental Policies, Protection of Environment, Yabloko's Regional Branches.