The Pine Nut Resources in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area. P. 41–52

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The paper shows the results of determination of the areas of Siberian pine plantations in forests of various categories of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area – Yugra. Siberian pine forests represent up to 15 % of the region’s forested area and are located mainly in commercial forests. Only a small part of them (9.5 %) is classified as protective forests. An assessment of nut harvesting sites was carried out by to the main parameters: stand composition, quality classes, stand density, proportion of Siberian pine trees in the composition. We remark that the nut harvesting sites allocated in 1954 currently do not correspond the allocations due to the low quality class, low relative density of tree stands, as well as the insignificant share of Siberian pine forests in the total area of the nut harvesting sites. Thus, with a total area of 307.5 ths ha of the nut harvesting sites in the region, the share of Siberian pine plantations at these sites is 39 % (119.1 ths ha). Two fifths of the area of the nut harvesting sites are represented by non-forest lands and plantations of other species: pine and spruce. A reduction in the number of lessees using forests for harvesting edible forest resources is noted. Pine nut harvesting is hold back by the forest fund territory poor development in terms of road network. As a result, out of the Siberian pine biological yield being 103,593.1 t of nuts, only 5.5 t are actually collected. In order to increase the pine nut consumption, it is necessary to revise the areas of nut harvesting sites taking into account the actual inventory parameters of stands, to create a road network at the newly allocated nut harvesting sites, to monitor the Siberian pine yield for harvesting planning, and develop regional recommendations for the collection of non-wood forest products.

Authors

Irina V. Predeina¹, Candidate of Agriculture; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6806-8968
Andrey N. Gavrilenko², Postgraduate Student; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3088-7020
Sergei V. Zalesov^2*, Doctor of Agriculture, Prof.; ResearcherID: H-2605-2019, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3779-410x

Affiliation

¹Department of Subsoil Use and Natural Resources of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area – Yugra, ul. Dunina-Gorkavicha, 1, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, 628007; PredeinaIV@admhmao.ru
²Ural State Forest Engineering University, ul. Sibirskiy trakt, 37, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 620100; lorba.les@gmail.com, zalesovsv@m.usfeu.ru*

Keywords

Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area – Yugra, Siberian pine, Pinus sibirica Du Tour, Siberian pine forest, nut harvesting sites, pine nut, Siberian pine yeild, non-wood forest products

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Predeina I.V., Gavrilenko A.N., Zalesov S.V. The Pine Nut Resources in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area. Lesnoy Zhurnal = Russian Forestry Journal, 2026, no. 3, pp. 41–52. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.37482/0536-1036-2026-3-41-52

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