100 THE FORESTS OF RUSSIA IN EUROPE 



On the Baltic, after Petrograd, Cronstadt, and Riga 

 come the ports of Narva, which exports annually 

 large amounts of logs and planks, Libava (dressed wood 

 materials), and Windaw and Pernau (the same). 



On the Black Sea Odessa is the most important port, 

 dressed and squared timber being the chief exports, 

 principally sent to Great Britain. Oak timber is also 

 sent to France and Algeria. Novorosiiske is also a 

 rising timber-exporting port on this sea. 



In the Caucasus Batoum is the chief port, exporting 

 walnut wood and palm wood. 



On her western continental frontier Russia's chief 

 exports of forestry materials go to Germany. These 

 are cut in the wooded provinces through which flow 

 the Niemen and Vistula, the mouths of which are both 

 in Germany. The material is principally exported as 

 logs or roughly squared timber floated down the rivers 

 in rafts. On the Vistula some of the material is sawn 

 up in saw-mills situated at the Russian frontier. It 

 is important to note, however, that all this material 

 is not taken by Germany. A considerable amount is 

 floated down the German portions of these rivers to 

 the ports of Konigsberg and Dantzig, both of which 

 are important ports for the Russian timber trade, and 

 is sent to Great Britain and Holland, etc. At this 

 juncture this is a point worth remembering. 



In spite of its great richness in forest materials, 

 owing to inadequate development of its forest property 

 and the poor state of communications Russia herself 

 imports forest products, to certain of her unwooded 

 centres, of the kind she exports from her afforested 

 areas. Her imports consist of logs, poles, billets. 



