The Taiga biome covers lots of Russia. The Taiga biome is also known to be one of the largest forests.
Because they owned every step of the process to make steel like for example they owned the mines to mine the iron. Then they would own a 2nd mine to mine the coal for the steel. Then they would own the factories to make the steal. That is a vertical monopoly so for shorting your answer you can say they owned the mines and the factories to make the steel.
