1949 conference in Lake Success as a stage in the international environmental cooperation formation

The article deals with a little-studied and rarely mentioned in Russian historiography UN conference for the conservation and utilization of resources, held in 1949 at the place of the future headquarters of this international organization station in the New York suburb of Lake Success. This international forum was one of the first global events that touched upon the problem of consumption and finiteness of natural resources. This conference was rightly proclaimed as an alliance between the UN and the world of science, and one can express regret that the decisions of this conference were not fully implemented.