At Lake Baikal

The Central Committee of the Communist Party, subsequent to the original publication of the following article and the January 1969 decree of the USSR Council of Ministers, "On Measures for the Preservation and Rational Use of the Natural Ecologies of the Lake Baikal Basin," added its authority to that of the USSR Council of Ministers in a joint decree published by the Soviet press on September 24, 1971. The decree, titled "On Supplementary Measures to Assure the Rational Use and Preservation of the Natural Resources of the Lake Baikal Basin," ordered a wide range of environmental protection measures, including the following which have special relevance to the article translated below: — the ministries and agencies using the Baikal area's natural resources, as well as the USSR Academy of Sciences, are to accelerate development of measures to create a water protection zone and water use rules; — the Ministry of the Pulp and Paper Industry was ordered to "complete fully" the construction of purification equi...