摘要
This message is dedicated to the Russian Paysage that is virtually completely ignored by developers and businessmen. Being a part of the cultural paysage of our country, each paysage is considered in terms of the customary relations between people and the Nature, work skills, the morality of the nation and its culture. Natural and artificial paysages are ever changing but they still have certain constants that determine their value. Conducting an inventory survey of paysages (of national, regional and local value) and assigning them with a legal status would help improve the building and economic activities.Paysages of various geographical areas differ in the spatial continuity, size, barrier configuration, isolation (openness), visual focus points (mountains, hills, lakes, stand-alone trees, etc.), and the individual correlation of such elements determines the paysage value. The so-called curtains in the foreground often determine the depth of the overall picture, which is why they play an important part in the perception of the paysage. All of the elements need to be registered and saved as part of unique protected paysages. To save what is left of the natural beauty, municipal authorities came up with special protective regimes, visibility sectors, etc. that are sometimes not enough to effectively protect the historical sight and views. Country paysages are even less protected by the law. As a rule, even in natural reserves beautiful paysages are not registered or considered to be an independent type of heritage. Man-made paysages differ from natural ones in terms of the cultural content: they are some kind of living pictures portraying certain stages of development of the country and the people. Various paysages of Russia – city, country, mansion, industrial, memorial or painted paysages (by Russian painters and writers) – form an integral part of our visual perception of Russia. Our mission is to raise awareness about the need to take care of the beauty of Nature to eventually avoid unreasonable using, i.e. wasting of the territory and natural resources.