the purpose of the Branch of the Department: improving the quality of applied and engineering personnel training of highly qualified personnel for the forestry sector, the effective use of scientific and technical potential of the University and LSSC for the development of fundamental and applied science, joint implementation of research, developmental and skilled-technological works in the field of artificial afforestation, forest breeding and genetics, forest seed and forest plants in soil science, in particular, with the use of modern bio- and nanotechnology, the introduction of the results of joint research into practical production, including on the basis of joint small and medium-sized innovative enterprises, and subsidiaries of unitary enterprises.