Practical Experience in Using the Cartographic Work Results in the Field of Territorial Nature Protection

The article presents an overview of the application of modern cartographic works and analysis of land management, special and thematic maps made in earlier periods in the practice of activities and in the process of optimizing the functioning of specially protected natural areas. The development of a series of thematic atlases of specially protected natural areas of the Russian Asian part made it possible for the first time to build individual landscape maps for most of these objects. This, in turn, helped to determine the representativeness of existing territorial environmental protection systems and identify types of landscapes that are not included in the boundaries of protected natural areas. The practical application of the completed maps reflecting the situation in territorial nature protection revealed: the controversial issue of poaching in the refuge (zakaznik) in Tyva, the territorial overlap of natural parks and refuges in Kamchatka and Khabarovsk regions, mistakes made and then corrected during the trial when approving the boundaries of a natural monument in the Irkutsk region, as well as to develop recommendations on the formation of an ecological or green framework for large cities (Ulaanbaatar, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude), about which scientific articles have already been published. The latest example of the formulation of a master plan for the development of the Ust-Kut small city, related to the regions of the far north, is presented in more detail. This city is the center of the administrative district of the same name in the Irkutsk region, an important transport hub, and the most economically developing territory of the region. The project uses cartographic materials specially created for Ust-Kut.