Ecological Systems and Devices Annotation << Back MONITORING AND RE-CULTIVATION OF DISTURBED LANDS IN THE ARCTIC ZONE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION S.A. Lipski The organization of land use in the Arctic zone has a number of differences from the rest of the country. Here the population is small, but 80 % of Russian gas is produced, there are promising deposits of oil, gold and other minerals. The extraction and subsequent transportation of such minerals are damaging for land and other natural resources. This is compounded by the fact that the ecosystems of the Arctic zone more are vulnerable to negative anthropogenic impacts than the central and southern territories. Also, indigenous minorities and their communities live here, they are engaged by traditional nature use (grazing of reindeer, fi shing, hunting). The article investigates the main causes of disturbance of land in the Arctic zone, assesses the scale of this phenomenon, as well as the results of monitoring of such lands and analyzes the rate of their re-cultivation. The author compares the relevant data for all regions included in the specified zone. The new rules of re-cultivation and conservation of land which approved by the Government of the Russian Federation in July 2018 are also evaluated. Keywords: Arctic zone; disturbed of land; mining industry; monitoring; re-cultivation of land; land use planning land; reindeer pastures. DOI: 10.25791/esip.12.2018.302 Contacts: E-mail: Lipski-sa@yandex.ru Pp. 03-12.