The main directions in the economic development of Russia in forestry are: to improve the reproduction and utilization of forest resources, to use forest lands more intensively, to pay more attention to planting belts, to increase control over the rational use of forest resources and protect forests against fires, pests and diseases.
Graduates from the department for forest engineering work as production engineers in the sphere of logging mechanization, wood felling operations and transportation of timber by land and water.
In order to be an educated and qualified engineer it is necessary to study about 40 subjects of general education and engineering.
Russian engineering supplies the timber industry with various machinery: gasoline-motor-powered saws, branch cutters, loaders of original design, heavy-duty motor trains, semiautomatic lines with automated sorting transport belts.