National parks in Russia

Distribution of national parks in Russia (clickable)

In Russia there are 40 national parks with a total area of ​​almost 90,000 km² (as of June 2009).

status

National parks are one of the types of specially protected nature areas in the Russian Federation ( Russian Особо охраняемые природные территории (ООПТ) ; abbrev. OOPT) according to the law of March 14, 1995. According to the Government of the Russian Federation ordinance of July 30, 2004, they are available until July 30, 2004 for the adoption of a corresponding law under the provisional centralized administration of the Federal Supervisory Authority for Nature Use (Russian Федеральная служба по надзору в сфере природопользования ).

Some of the parks are also part of UNESCO natural world heritage areas or have been designated as biosphere reserves in whole or in part .

history

The first national park on the territory of the Soviet Union was designated in 1971 in what is now Estonia ( Lahemaa National Park ); in the 1970s, others emerged in the other Baltic Soviet republics of the time . This started to adapt the traditional nature protection system of Sapowedniks and Sakasniks to the international development in this area.

The first national parks on the territory of the RSFSR emerged in the immediate vicinity or within urban agglomerations: Sochi ( Sochi National Park , 1983), Moscow ( Lossiny Ostrov National Park , 1983) and Samara - Tolyatti ( Samarskaya Luka National Park , 1984).

Most recently, the Kalewala National Park in the Republic of Karelia (2006), the Sow Tigra (“Call of the Tiger ”) and Udegeiskaya Legenda (“ Udehe Legend”) national parks in the Far East of Russia (2007), the Busulukski Bor National Park (“ Busuluker Forest ”) in the southwestern Ural Foreland (2008) and the Russian Arctic National Park on and around Franz Josef Land (2009).

At the beginning of 2013, the Russian Prime Minister Medvedev signed an order to establish the more than 1.8 million hectare Beringia National Park (named after the Asian-American land bridge Beringia ) in the far east of mainland Russia, on the Chukchi Peninsula . This project crosses borders with the United States ( Alaska ), where the American counterpart of the park has existed since 1978, the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve . The agreement between the two countries was signed in September 2012 after the idea for such a project had already existed over 20 years earlier.

List of national parks

National park	location	view
Alania National Park ( Национальный парк "Алания" ) Area: 549 km² Established: February 18, 1998 Location: Republic of North Ossetia-Alania
Anjuiski National Park ( Национальный парк "Алания" ) Area: 4300 km² Established: 2007 Location: Khabarovsk region
Alkhanay National Park ( Национальный парк "Алханай" ) Area: 1382 km² Established: May 15, 1999 Location: Transbaikalia region
Baikal National Park ( Прибайкальский национальный парк ) Area: 4180 km² Established: February 13, 1986 Location: Irkutsk Oblast
Bashkiria National Park ( Национальный парк "Башкирия" ) Area: 823 km² Founded: September 11, 1986 Location: Republic of Bashkortostan
Bikin National Park ( Национа́льный парк «Бики́н» ) Area: 11600 km² Established: November 2015 Location: Primorye region
National Park Busulukski boron ( Национальный парк "Бузулукский бор" ) area: 1,068 km² Established: January 9, 2008 Location: Orenburg , Samara Oblast
Chwalynsk National Park ( Национальный парк "Хвалынский" ) Area: 255 km² Established: August 19, 1994 Location: Saratov Oblast
Elbrus National Park ( Национальный парк "Приэльбрусье" ) Area: 1004 km² Founded: September 22, 1986 Location: Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria
Jugyd Wa National Park ( Национальный парк "Югыд-ва" ) Area: 18,917 km² Established: February 23, 1994 Location: Komi Republic
Kalewala National Park ( Национальный парк "Калевальский" ) Area: 743 km² Established: November 30, 2006 Location: Republic of Karelia
Kenosero National Park ( Кенозерский национальный парк ) Area: 1397 km² Established: December 28, 1991 Location: Arkhangelsk Oblast
Curonian Spit National Park ( Национальный парк "Куршская коса" ) Area: 66 km² Founded: November 6, 1987 Location: Kaliningrad Oblast
Lossiny Ostrov National Park ( Национальный парк "Лосиный остров" ) Area: 129 km² Established: August 24, 1983 Location: Moscow Oblast , City of Moscow
Mari Chodra National Park ( Национальный парк "Марий Чодра" ) Area: 366 km² Founded: September 13, 1985 Location: Republic of Mari El
Meshchora National Park ( Национальный парк "Мещёра" ) Area: 1189 km² Founded: February 9, 1992 Location: Vladimir Oblast
Meshchorsky National Park ( Национальный парк "Мещёрский" ) Area: 1030 km² Established: February 9, 1992 Location: Ryazan Oblast
Netschka National Park ( Национальный парк "Нечкинский" ) Area: 208 km² Founded: October 16, 1997 Location: Udmurt Republic
Nizhnyaya Kama National Park ( Национальный парк "Нижняя Кама" ) Area: 266 km² Established: April 20, 1991 Location: Republic of Tatarstan
Orlovskoye Polessye National Park ( Национальный парк "Орловское полесье" ) Area: 777 km² Established: January 9, 1994 Location: Oryol Oblast
Paanajarwi National Park ( Национальный парк "Паанаярви" ) Area: 1045 km² Established: May 20, 1992 Location: Republic of Karelia
Pleschcheevo Osero National Park ( Национальный парк "Плещеево озеро" ) Area: 238 km² Established: September 26, 1998 Location: Yaroslavl Oblast
Pyschminskije Bory National Park ( Национальный парк "Припышминские боры" ) Area: 491 km² Established: June 20, 1993 Location: Sverdlovsk Oblast
National Park Call of the Tiger ( Зов Тигра национальный парк ) Area: 834 km² Established: June 2007 Location: Primorye Oblast
Russkaya Arktika National Park ( Национальный парк "Русская Арктика" ) Area: 14,260 km² Established: June 15, 2009 Location: Arkhangelsk Oblast		;
Russky Sever National Park ( Национальный парк "Русский Север" ) Area: 1664 km² Established: March 20, 1992 Location: Vologda Oblast		;
Samarskaya Luka National Park ( Национальный парк "Самарская Лука" ) Area: 1340 km² Established: February 28, 1984 Location: Samara Oblast
Shantar Islands National Park ( Национа́льный парк «Шанта́рские острова́» ) Area: 5150 km² Established: 2014 Location: Khabarovsk region
Schorischer National Park ( Шорский национальный парк ) Area: 4182 km² Established: December 27, 1989 Location: Kemerovo Oblast
Shushensky Bor National Park ( Национальный парк "Шушенский бор" ) Area: 392 km² Established: November 3, 1995 Location: Krasnoyarsk Territory
Sebezh National Park ( Национальный парк "Себежский" ) Area: 500 km² Established: July 1, 1996 Location: Pskov Oblast
Sjuratkul National Park ( Национальный парк "Зюраткуль" ) Area: 882 km² Established: November 3, 1993 Location: Chelyabinsk Oblast
Smolenskoye Pooserje National Park ( Национальный парк "Смоленское Поозерье" ) Area: 1462 km² Established: February 15, 1992 Location: Smolensk Oblast
Smolny National Park ( Национальный парк "Смольный" ) Area: 365 km² Established: March 7, 1995 Location: Republic of Mordovia
Sochi National Park ( Сочинский национальный парк ) Area: 1937 km² Established: May 5, 1983 Location: Krasnodar region
Taganai National Park ( Национальный парк "Таганай" ) Area: 564 km² Established: March 5, 1991 Location: Chelyabinsk Oblast
Transbaikal National Park ( Забайкальский национальный парк ) Area: 2672 km² Established: September 12, 1986 Location: Republic of Buryatia
Chavash Warmane National Park ( Национальный парк "Чаваш Вармане" ) Area: 252 km² Established: June 20, 1993 Location: Republic of Chuvashia
Tunka National Park ( Национальный парк "Тункинский" ) Area: 11,837 km² Established: May 27, 1991 Location: Republic of Buryatia
Udegeiskaya Legenda National Park ( Национальный парк "Удэгейская легенда" ) Area: 886 km² Established: June 9, 2007 Location: Primorye region
Ugra National Park ( Национальный парк "Угра" ) Area: 986 km² Established: February 10, 1997 Location: Kaluga Oblast
Valdai National Park ( Национальный парк "Валдайский" ) Area: 1585 km² Established: May 17, 1990 Location: Novgorod Oblast
Vodlosero National Park ( Национальный парк “Водлозерский” ) Area: 4689 km² Established: February 20, 1991 Location: Arkhangelsk Oblast , Republic of Karelia
Manpupuner rocks

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Law on Specially Protected Natural Areas (Russian)
2. ↑ Report on russland.ru ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from January 19, 2013 

Web links

• Website of the Russian Federation's Specially Protected Natural Areas of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation (Russian)
• Information and information system specially protected natural areas of Russia of the Center for Nature Conservation (Russian)