In 1985 at the territory of Evenk Autonomous Okrug of Krasnoyarsk krai the Central Siberian State Nature Biosphere Reserve was established to protect a sample fragment of Siberian taiga for humanity. Land and water nature complexes of Middle Siberian taiga, the landscapes of Yenisei’s bottom-land and its side streams are being registered and controlled, the aspects of growth and protection of 972,000 hectares of territory are being defined. Several navigable stations were moved from the territory of the nature reserve, Siberian hunting and fishery activities were reconciled.

Primeval nook of wild nature located at the entry of Podkamennaya Tunguska river is a sample of Middle Siberian nature. The Yenisei meridional biogeographical border (Johansen line) which is of the ultimate importance crosses the territory of the nature reserve. This line is a main sectoral border of Palearctic. The most special thing about this nature reserve is great landscape diversity; each of the landscapes belongs to different physiographic provinces. The other unique thing is a “basinal” set-up (the borders of the nature reserve run along the water partings covering the basins of several Yenisei and Podkamennaya Tunguska side streams).

Central Siberian reserve is the only nature reserve in Russia where the both banks of Yenisei are commanded at the long distance of 60km. The total length of the river network is 1830km. Yenisei separates the territory into two unequal parts with totally different landscape complexes. The left bank of Yenisei is a steeply-slopping flatland with low-sloped valleys and wide water-partings (of 200-250 meters high). Their sand soils are very favorable for pinewoods, spruce and cedar (along rivers and at the uplands). The vast territories of land degradations are occupied by swamps and peat-bogs, also there are grasses of tall and low grass.

At the right bank of Yenisei (3/4 of the nature reserve) Yeniseisk ridge with lots of rivers like Stolbovaya, Rybnaya and Varlamovka forms a tectonic cliff. There are a lot of spurce, cedar, larch and birch. The fragment of Yenisei at the territory of nature reserve is very precious as a section of spawning of different valuable roundfish species, a wintering pond for sturgeon and starlet. Among other species there are lamprey, goldilocks, taimen, nelma, omul, vendace, whitefish, peled, broad whitefish, tuchun, char, Siberian grayling, luce, dog-fish and others.

Benefactress Taiga is full of edible plants and scarce drug plants form an overgrowth of field values (among them are mealberry, dogrose, bean trefoil, blueberry, milfoil, tansy, peony, Pennsylvanian lily, larkspur etc). The abundance of bee plants allows promoting beekeeping in the North of the region. There are also can be seen such scarce plants as the calypso orchid, the large-flowered cypripedium and the lady’s-slipper orchid, which were included in The Russia’s IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

There are 65 species of diurnal are defined inhabiting the nature reserve. Some of them are common for southern territories and here they are at the northern border of their range: nymphalid butterflies, phoebe, machaon, parnassius stubbendorfii, gossamer-winged butterflies. The fauna of humble-bees is also interesting, there are 14 species of them have been found, 3 of them has been included in endangered species-list of Krasnoyarsk krai: Baikal humble-bee, Schrenkii humble-bee and Sporadicus humble-bee.

There are 13 species of predatory mammals at the nature reserve: wolves, foxes at the river valleys, brown bears which dormancy sometimes is 185 days long. Wolverine is a common mammal of Yenisei taiga. It is a very shy animal and it is almost impossible to see it in summer. Badger and lynx can be seen occasionally. Trade moose today is a very rare animal in the nature reserve.

Scientific base of the nature reserve is very thorough. The Yenisei ecological station “Mirnoe” which was established in 1969 on the initiative of Y. Syroetchkovsy at the territory of village Mirnoe in Turukhansky district of Krasnoyarsk krai is famous by its gains.

Game Park “Yeloguisky” (6,476,000 hectares) is a part of the nature reserve. It is unique because there is a land of wood grouse, also there is a huge sable refuge (located near the hunting lands of Yeloguy Khanty. For them sable hunting is vital). Reindeer lichen pine wood is a real relict of modern age. Moreover, the refuge conducts ecological researches. Among 8 northern native nations the most attention is paid to Kets who live near the “Mirnoe” station.

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