Russian
Conservation News #18, Samples articles and
excerpts:Bulletin Board
Siberia's Lake Chany
Nikitin Wins a Battle as War Continues
Biosphere Reserves in Russia
Map
of Biosphere Reserves in Russia
(Excerpted
from Issue #18)
Name of
Zapovednik Year of
Establishment/ Year of Recognition as a Biosphere
Reserve Total Area
(ha) Additional
Status 1 Astrakhansky
Biosphere Zapovednik 1919/1984 86,816 Ramsar
List 2 Baikalsky
Biosphere Zapovednik part of the Baikal Region
Biosphere 1969/1986 165,724 Ramsar List
Cultural and Natural Heritage UNESCO Reserve
Cluster 3 Barguzinsky
Biosphere Zapovednik, part of the Baikal Region
Biosphere Reserve cluster 1916/1986 374,322 (including
111,146 ha of a functional buffer zone) Cultural and
Natural Heritage UNESCO 4 Chernye Zemli
Biosphere Zapovednik 1990/1996 121,901 Ramsar
List 5 Daursky Biosphere
Zapovednik 1987/1997 44,752 Ramsar
List 6 Kavkazolry
Bieqshere Zapovednik 1924/1978 190,952 7 Kronotsky
Biosphere Zapovednik 1934/1984 1,142,000
(induding a 135,000 ha sea area) Cultural and
Natural Heritage UNESCO 8 Laplandsky
Biosphere Zapovednik l930/1984 278,436 9 Oksky Biosphere
Zapovednik, part of the Oka River Valley Biosphere
Reserve cluster 1935/1978 55,722 (including
32,818 h of a functional buffer zone) European Union
Diploma 10 Pechoro-Ilychsky
Biosphere Zapovednik 1930/1984 721,322 European Union
Diploma 11 Prioksko-Terrasny
Biosphere Zapovednik, part of the Oka River Valley
Biosphere Reserve cluster 1945/1978 4,945 12 Sayano-Shushensky
Biosphere Zapovednik 1976/1984 390,368 13 Sikhote-Alinsky
Biosphere Zapovednik 1935/1978 390,184 (including
2,900 ha - sea area) 14 Sokhondinoky
Biosphere Zapovednik 1973/1984 210,985 15 Taimyrsky
Biosphere Zapovednik 1979/1995 1,781,928 16 Teberdinsky
Biosphere Zapovednik 1936/1997 84,996 Cultural and
Natural Heritage UNESCO 17 Tsentral'no-Lesnoy
Biosphere Zapovednik 1931/1985 24,462 18 Tsentral'no-Sibirsky
Biosphere Zapovednik 1985/1986 972,017 19 Tsentral'no-Chernozemny
Biosphere Zapovednik 1935/1978 6,287 European Union
Diploma 20 Ubsunurskaya
Kotlovina Biosphere Zapovednik 1993/1997 39,640 21 Voronezhsky
Biosphere Reserve 1927/1984 31,053
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