Editing Peat (section)

===Russia===
[[File:Shatura steam power plant (2010).jpg|thumb|[[Shatura Power Station]]. [[Russia]] has the largest [[List of peat power stations|peat power]] capacity in the world.|left]][[File:Peat Briquette Factory.jpg|thumb|The [[Kerzhenets peat narrow gauge railway|Bor Peat Briquette Factory]], [[Russia]]]]{{Update section|date=August 2020}}
The use of peat for energy production was prominent in the [[Soviet Union]], especially in 1965. In 1929, over 40% of the Soviet Union's electric energy came from peat, which dropped to 1% by 1980.

In the 1960s, larger sections of swamps and bogs in Western Russia were drained for agricultural and mining purposes.<ref name="wildfire">{{cite web |author=Serghey Stelmakovich |title=Russia institutes peat fire prevention program |url=http://wildfiremag.com/tactics/russia_institutes_peat/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100618114909/http://wildfiremag.com/tactics/russia_institutes_peat/ |archive-date=June 18, 2010 |access-date=August 9, 2010}}</ref>