Articles by authors from the Commonwealth of Independent States and some Eastern European countries are also published. The articles primarily consider the results of recent research. Also papers about methods and reviews of some problems of forest sciences are published. For the most part, the authors consider questions of the ecosystem. Works containing information about boreal, moderate, and broad-leaf forests and the role of the Russian forests in global climate changes are also published.
Special attention is given to forest monitoring by aerospace methods.
Questions of ecology, ecophysiology, genetics and selection, and dendrometry for some species and genera are discussed. The Russian Forest Sciences is not published in 1999.