Protective forests
1. Protective forests include forests intended for development in accordance with the purposes specified in paragraph 4 of article 12 of this Code.
2. Taking into account the specific legal regime of protective forests, the following categories of such forests are determined:
1) forests located on specially protected natural territories;
2) forests located in water protection zones;
3) forests performing functions to protect natural and other objects:
a) forests located in the first and second belts of sanitary protection zones of sources of drinking and household water supply;
b) protective forest strips located along general use railway lines, federal general use automobile roads, and general use automobile roads owned by subjects of the Russian Federation;
c) green zones;
(as amended by Federal Law No. 32-FZ dated March 14, 2009)
v.1) forest park zones;
(subparagraph "v.1" introduced by Federal Law No. 32-FZ dated March 14, 2009)
g) urban forests;
d) forests located in the first, second and third zones of sanitary (mountain-sanitary) protection areas of health resorts and recreational areas;
4) valuable forests:
a) state protective forest strips;
b) erosion control forests;
c) forests located in desert, semi-desert, forest-steppe, forest-tundra zones, steppes, and mountains;
d) forests of scientific or historical significance;
e) walnut-harvesting zones;
f) forest orchards;
g) strip forests;
h) prohibited forest strips along water bodies;
(subparagraph "h" introduced by Federal Law No. 143-FZ dated July 22, 2008)
i) fish spawning protection forest strips
Source: "Forest Code of the Russian Federation" dated December 4, 2006 No. 200-FZ (as amended on July 28, 2012)