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There are currently 36 'national parks' in the Russian Federation, a list of which is given below. Together they cover approximately 70,000 square kilometres.

Contents

Overview

Parks listed

See also

Footnotes

External links

Overview

The first national parks in the Soviet Union were founded in the 1970s in the Baltic republics. The oldest parks in the Russian Federation are Sochinsky and Losiny Ostrov (1983); Samarskaya Luka (1984); Marii Chodra (1985); Bashkiria, Prielbrusye, Pribaykalsky and Zabaykalsky (1986).^[1]
According to the law on the protected areas of Russia, national parks are areas of land and water devoted to nature protection, ecological education, and scientific research. They contain sites of particular ecological, historical and aesthetic value. Regulated tourism is permitted."About Special Protected Nature Areas", a Russian Federation federal law of March 14, 1995.^[2]
The area of each park is divided into zones according to various functions. There should be a strictly protected area managed as a zapovednik, and also recreational and buffer zones in which economic activity is allowed, such as tourism, traditional land use, and benign forms of agriculture and forestry. The strictly protected function is sometimes fulfilled by a neighbouring official zapovednik; for instance, Barguzin Zapovednik adjoins Zabaykalsky National Park on the east side of Lake Baikal.
In 2001 Vodlozersky National Park received UNESCO Biosphere Reserve status, followed by Smolenskoye Poozerye and Ugra National Park in 2002, and two others more recently.
The national parks are currently the responsibility of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia.

Parks listed

For each park the date of foundation is given, and also the region of Russia and coordinates on the map.
Most of the external links are to the Biodiversity Conservation Center/Tsentr dikoy prirody in Moscow (in Russian).

Map of national parks in Russia

★ Alaniya (1998; North Osetia in the Caucasus, A06)

★ Alkhanay (1999; Chitinskaya Oblast', P02)

★ Bashkiriya (1986; Bashkortostan, E06)

★ Chavash Varmane (1993; Chuvashia, D08)

★ Kalevalsky (2006; Karelia, E11?)

★ Kenozersky (1991; Arkhangelsk area, E10)

★ Khvalynsky (1994; Saratov Oblast', D07)

★ Kurshskaya Kosa (1987; Kaliningrad Oblast', B12)

★ Losiny Ostrov National Park (1983; Moscow, C09)

★ Marii Chodra National Park (1985; Zvenigovsky District, E08)

★ Meshchora (1992; Vladimir Oblast', D09)

★ Meshchorsky (1992; Ryazan' Oblast', C09)

★ Nechkinsky (1997; Udmurt Republic, E07)

★ Nizhnyaya Kama (=Tübän Kama?) (1991; Tatarstan, E07)

★ Orlovskoye Polesye (1994; Orlovskaya Oblast', B09)

★ Paanayarvi (1992; Karelia, F12)

★ Pleshcheevo Ozero (1988; Yaroslavl' Oblast', D09)

★ Pribaykalsky (1986; west side of Lake Baykal, N03)

★ Prielbrusye (1986; Kabardino-Balkaria in the Caucasus, A06/07)

★ Pripyshminskiye Bory (1993; Sverdlovsk Oblast' on the Urals, G06)

★ Russky Sever (1992; Vologodskaya Oblast', D/E10)

★ Samarskaya Luka (1984; Samarskaya Oblast', D07)

★ Sebezhsky (1996; Pskov Oblast', C11)

★ Shorsky (1989; Kemerov Oblast', K03)

★ Shushensky Bor (1995; Krasnoyarsk Kray, K03)

★ Smolenskoye Poozerye (1992; Smolensk Oblast', C10)

★ Smolny (1995; Mordovia, D08)

★ Sochinsky National Park (1983; Krasnodar Kray, A07)

★ Taganay (1991; Chelyabinsk Oblast', F06)

★ Tunkinsky (1997; Buryatia, M02)

★ Ugra (1997; Kaluga area, C09/10)

★ Valdaysky (1990; Novgorod Oblast', D10)

★ Vodlozersky (1991; Karelia, E11)

★ Yugyd Va National Park (1994; Komi Republic, G08/09)

★ Zabaykalsky (1986; Buryatia, on east side of Lake Baykal, P03)

★ Zyuratkul' (1993; Chelyabinsk Oblast', E/F06)

See also

★ Protected areas in Russia

Footnotes

1. Russian Nature Press
2. Biodiversity Conservation Centre Moscow

External links

★ Biodiversity Conservation Center/Tsentr dikoy prirody, Moscow: page and map on each park, in Russian.

★ Centre for Russian Nature Conservation/Russian Conservation News.

★ Russian Nature Press: list of parks with basic statistics and contact details, in English.

★ The Altai Reserve