Biosphere Reserve Information
Russian Federation
Mountainous Urals
2018
Located in the Southern Urals, this biosphere reserve is covered with mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests as well as mixed coniferous small-leaved forests and mountain taiga spruce-fir forests. Mountain ranges (with summits of 800 m to 1,178 m) and mountain valleys are interconnected by boulder streams. The western part of the reserve is low altitude. While the eastern part alternates between sloping mountain ridge elevations and depressions covered with lakes and deeply incised swampy valleys. About 12,000 people inhabit the site, whose main objective is to transition from extractive industries to a sustainable development model based on biological natural resource management, tourism and the rehabilitation of landscapes scarred by mining.
Administrative Authorities
The Ministry of Ecology Chelyabinsk region
Contact
Contact Address
Telephone
The Ministry of Ecology Chelyabinsk region, St. Kirova 114; Chelyabinsk 454009, Russian Federation
(+7) 351 2646680
Fax
N/A
Location
Latitude
55°22'35"N
Longitude
60°14'38"E
Area (hectares)
Surface Area
173,578
Core Area
17,459
Buffer Area
60,955
Transition Area
95,164
Map
Last updated: 2019