Table of contents -- Foreword -- Executive summary -- Abbreviations -- Terms and definitions -- Introduction -- A history of forestry -- Forest vegetation zones -- General overview -- Vegetation zones -- State Forest Account -- Forest fund -- Forest management groups I, II and III -- Forest area, main tree species and growing stock volume in the EUPR in 1966-1998 -- Forest area -- Tree species composition in the EUPR -- Regional distribution of the stands by principal tree species -- Regional distribution of the coniferous and broad-leaved stands -- Growing stock volume -- Development-stage structure and mean growing stock volume of stands dominated by tree species groups -- Increment of the growing stock volume -- Concepts -- The mean annual increment and the total annual increment -- The gross annual increment and the net annual increment -- The difference between increment concepts -- Derivation of gross and net annual increments -- Utilisation of the wood resources -- Harvesting in Russia and EUPR -- The dynamics of removals in EUPR by districts and selected regions in 1966-1993 -- Forest balance -- Attributes and equations -- Analysis of forest balance -- Comparison between the European part of Russia and Europe -- Observations and conclusions -- State of the forest resources in the European Part of the Russian Federation -- Biological potentials for sustainable use of wood in the EUPR -- Reliability of the data presented -- Development needs for the State Forest Account -- Sustainability of wood resources -- References -- Appendices.