Kuibyshev regional branch of the nature protection society: history of its creation and activity in the 1950-1980s

The article is devoted to the history of the Samara nature protection movement which was based on the Kuibyshev regional branch of the All-Russian Society for Nature Protection in the Soviet period. On the base on archival documents, the author examines the activities of the society in the Kuibyshev region, analyzes the role of the public in preserving the region’s natural resources, environmental education of citizens and solving other problems in the field of nature protection in the 1950s and 1980s.