Kazakhstan. The West Altai State Nature Reserve was created to preserve and protect the ecosystem of the mountains and Altai forests it surrounds. It is the biggest...

Gorno-Altai Republic, and colloquially, and primarily referred to in Russian to distinguish from the neighbouring Altai Krai as the Gornyi Altai (Russian:...

Markakolsky State Nature Reserve Ustyurt State Nature Reserve West-Altai State Nature Reserve Alakol State Nature Reserve Karatau State Nature Reserve...

The Altai-Sayan region is an area of Inner Asia proximate to the Altai Mountains and the Sayan Mountains, near to where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan...

glaciers. The site is situated 50 km to the north from the Russian resort of Sochi. The Western Caucasus also contains the Caucasus Nature Reserve (Russian...

Barguzinsky Nature Reserve (Russian: Баргузинский заповедник) is the oldest of zapovedniks (nature reserves), established in 1916 for the protection of the Barguzin...

East Ural Nature Reserve (Russian: Восточно-Уральский заповедник) is a Russian 'zapovednik' (strict nature reserve) that is near the site of the 1957 Kyshtym...

the southwest, the grasslands extend to the Yellow River, across which is the Ordos Plateau steppe. It lies between the Altai Mountains in the west and...

access to the local nomads for fishing and grazing; natural and historic monuments with restricted developmental activities; and nature reserves of less...

complex in the southwest corner of the ecoregion. (Area: 490 km2) Central Siberia Nature Reserve. An IUCN class Ia "strict ecological reserve" (a Zapovednik)...

Nature Reserves exist in Russia and more than 50 National Parks. National parks and sanctuaries of Russia include the Baikal Nature Reserve , the Altai Nature...

is the largest national park in Kazakhstan, located on the eastern edge of the country, in the Southern Altai Mountains. The park fills the west side...

Republic in the southeast and south, the Altai Republic in the south and southwest, and Kemerovo Oblast in the west and northwest. It stretches for 460...

include national nature parks, zakazniks (referring to "state game reserve" because a limited amount of hunting is allowed there), nature monuments (often...

protected the Tuvan parts of Ubsunur Hollow as the Ubsunurskaya Kotlovina State Nature Biosphere Reserve. In 1995 Greenpeace Russia prepared its proposal...

895 ft)); and most of the reserve's terrain is West Siberian taiga and some tundra. Denezhkin Kamen is the only nature reserve in the Ural east-slope watershed...

Kerzhinski Nature Reserve (Russian: Керженский) (also Kerzhensky) is a Russian 'zapovednik' (strict nature reserve) located in the middle basin of the Kerzhenets...

to the west. The two sections were connected in 2010 by a "biosphere polygon", the Caucasus State Nature Reserve. The two sectors are situated in the Karachayevsky...

Nenets Nature Reserve (Russian: Ненецкий заповедник) (also Nenetsky) is a Russian 'zapovednik' (strict nature reserve) in the northeast of European Russia...

the Himalayas, Tibetan Plateau to the Altai-Sayan region and South Siberian Mountains. It inhabits rocky montane grasslands and shrublands, where the...

Russia's smallest zapovedniks (nature reserves), sprawling over an area of 5,000 hectares along the left bank of the Oka River in the Serpukhov District of Moskva...

Visim Nature Reserve (Russian: Висимский заповедник) (also Visimskiy) is a Russian 'zapovednik' (strict nature reserve) protecting an area of southern...

Nature Reserve (Russian: Малая Сосьва заповедник) (also Malaya Sosva) is a Russian 'zapovednik' (strict ecological reserve) covering the basin of the...

Voronezh Nature Reserve (Russian: Воронежский заповедник; Voronezhsky Zapovednik) is a Russian 'zapovednik' (strict ecological reserve) located 40 km...

News. "State Nature Reserve -Wrangel Island – Peculiarities of the Nature Reserve". eng.ostrovwrangelya.org. Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve Chukotka...

Turkic communities—many of which, such as the Yakuts, Tuvans, Altai, and Khakas, are Indigenous—along with the Mongolic Buryats, ethnic Koreans, and smaller...

and along with a friend of Altai named Kausar. The three traveled many days across the Kazakh Steppe until they arrive in the Karkaraly Mountains, and took...

Lapland Nature Reserve (Russian: Лапландский заповедник) (also Laplandskiy) is a Russian zapovednik (strict nature reserve) in Murmansk Oblast, Russia...

In 1916, the first nature reserve in the Russian Empire was created—known as the Barguzin Nature Reserve—precisely to preserve and increase the numbers...

have been discovered in the North Caucasus. Radiocarbon dated specimens from Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains estimate the oldest Denisovan specimen...