Samara Regional Movement 1920-1930 and his contribution to the study and conservation of the middle Volga Region

Studying Russian environmental history is one of the urgent tasks of modern science as it allows you to use useful historical experience in conditions of aggravation of relations between society and nature. Nature protection in Russia has always been closely associated with the study of his homeland and his native land, being one of the most important areas of both academic and Amateur Ethnography. This article describes a contribution to the study and conservation of the Middle Volga Samara local history movement in the 1920s–1930s, including one of the most important scientific societies of the time – Samara society of archeology, history, Ethnography and natural Sciences and his successor. In its composition in the «Golden age studies» (1920s) worked the most famous scientists of the Samara, leaving a unique scientific legacy. Their work laid the foundations of modern science history, nature conservation and public movements for the protection of nature in the Samara region. Sources for the preparation of this article was mainly the Central state archive of the Samara region. A significant number of archival documents for the first time introduced into scientific circulation, which is the scientific novelty of the research.