PRIORITIES OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF FORESTRY IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

As a result of a study of trends in the technological development of forestry, including a list of promising technologies that ensure an increase in the competitiveness of the industry, the priority integrated areas of scientific and technological development of forestry of the Russian Federation are presented. Based on the conducted expert analysis, a forecast assessment of the prospects for certain technological and scientific areas in the context of the presented enlarged groups of priorities for the development of forestry in the Russian Federation is presented. It has been proved that the most popular forestry practices are studies aimed at creating technology for protecting forests from fires, protecting forests from invasion, as well as forest engineering, robotics and digital technologies. Furthermore, based on the analysis of bibliographic and abstract databases, the main technologies were identified that ensure the development of promising areas of scientific and technological development of forestry in the context of each priority. As a result, it has been found that there is a growing interest of researchers in the research area «Evaluation of productivity, growth, deposit capacity of forest ecosystems». One of the conclusions is that substantiated proposals were made regarding the prospects for the scientific and technological development of forestry in the Russian Federation regarding the practice-oriented areas necessary for forestry production, and science-oriented areas that determine future scientific breakthroughs in the field of new technologies and equipment.