• Illustrations
• Translator's Note
• Publisher's Note
• From the Author
• Introduction: Zapovednost & Literature Review
• 1: 1895-1917 Zapovedniks in the Russian Empire
• 2: 1918-1925 The Lenin Period
• 3: 1926-1933 Compromise or Capitulation?
• 4: 1934-1940 Zapovedny Management Takes Off
• 5: 1941-1945 The War Years
• 6: 1946-1951 'With Particular Knds in View'
• 7: 1952-1960 Zapovedny Game Farms

• 8: 1961-1969 Ministries Compete
• 9: 1970-1976 Time of Searching and Hope
• 10: 1977-1985 The Child has grown out of its Clothes'
• 11: 1986-1991 Quantity & Quality
• 12: 1992-1995 zapovedniks at a New Threshold
• 13: In Retrospect
• 14: Like a Phoenix from the Ashes
• Appendices
• References
• Notes
• Index
• The author

MAPS

• Commonwealth of Independent States
• European Russia
• Vegetation zones

PORTRAITS

• V.V.Alckhin
• I.P.Borodin
• V.V.Dokuchayev
• F.KFalts-Feyn
• L.G.Kaplanov
• G.A.Kozhevnikov
• O.B.Lepeshinskaya
• T.D.Lvsenko
• V.N.Makarov
• A.V.Malinovski
• I.V.Michurin
• G.F.Moroxov
• N.N.Podyapolski
• l.I.Prezent
• I.I.Puxanov
• K.G.Shaposhnikov
• A.P.Semenov-Tyan-Shanski
• F.F.Shillinger
• F.R.Shtilmark
• P.G.Smidovich
• V.B.Stepanitski
• V.N.Sukachev

• E.E.Syroechkovski
• V.I.Taliyev
• V.I.Vernadski

DIAGRAMS

• Fig. 1 Vegetation zones
• Fig.2 Steppe zones
• Fig.3 Taiga
• Fig.4 Transformation of Nature

SCRNERY

• birch forest
• bog
• forest-steppe
• forest-tundra
• oak forest
• steppe
• taiga
• tundra
• Lake Baykal
• Caspian shore
• Caucasus
• Kamchatka
• Kuril Islands
• Lake Ladoga
• River Lena
• Volga delta
• White Sea