The Aerial Forest Fire Protection Service Avialesookhrana of the Federal Forest Service
of Russia reports the state of fire in the 2000 fire season to the GFMC. The latest report
is from 12 May 2000:
On 10 May 2000, 306 fires occurred in the forests which are under the control of the
Federal Forest Service of Russia, burning a total of 19,531 ha of forest and 8,108 ha non
forest areas (inside forest lands).
The regions with the highest fire activity were:
Republic Buriatia - 59 fires (4,357 ha forest and 355 ha non forest)
Amurskaia oblast - 30 fires (3,790 ha forest and 4,063 non forest)
Chita region - 106 fires (9,231 ha forest and 2,715 ha non forest).
Selected fire occurrence maps are prepared daily by the Russian GFMC correspondent Dr. Anatoly Sukhinin, Fire Laboratory of the Sukachev Institute of Forest, Karsnoyarsk. Today, the following images are available for 11 May 2000:
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Fig.1. Amurskaia (Amur) Oblast |
Fig.2. Buryatia Republic | Fig.3. Chitinskaia (Chita) Oblast |
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Fig.4. Chitinskaia (Chita) Oblast |
Fig.5. Ikutskaia (Irkutsk) Olast | Fig.6. Ikutskaia (Irkutsk) Olast |
For more details on fire in the Russian Federation, Mongolia and China: See IFFN Country Notes.
Scientific details on fire in the Russian Federation are provided by the Fire Research Campaign Asia-North (FIRESCAN) report.
Bibliography on fire in ecosystems of boreal Eurasia:
One of the results of the first international fire science conference in the
Russian Federation (1993) was the publication of a monograph on fire in boreal Eurasia,
including some selected contributions on boreal North America. The literature cited in the
monograph contains numerous publications which in many cases are not easily accessible. To
facilitate literature search the bibliographical sources are provided by topic (chapter).