Reserve "Taimyr" has a complicated history of creation.Today, it covers an area of more than 1.5 thousand hectares. In these areas are protected rare species of flora and fauna listed in the Red Book.The official founding date is considered to be 1979, when it was created reserve for detailed study and conservation of forests, mountains, plains and tundra ecosystems.
History
Even back in 1939, researchers have conceived to create the Taimyr Peninsula largest reserve.Its opening is planned for 1943, but, unfortunately, the war has crossed all plans.Then the establishment of a protected area rose in 1949, but the development of scientists were rejected because the state does reduce the area of systems of protected areas.More than once the Taimyr Biosphere Reserve got into the spotlight.The territory was planned to expand to 10 million hectares, to protect not only rare animals and birds, such as wild reindeer, musk ox, red-breasted goose, but the entire ecosystem of the Taimyr tundra from Byrranga Mountains and up to the Arctic coast.
in 1979 still managed to officially register the reserve "Taimyr".These include Logatskoe and Verhnetaymyrskoe forest, branches' Lukunsky "and" Ary-Mas ".In 1994, to the reserve as a buffer zone were attached coastal and foothill arctic tundra.Today, researchers are doing their best to expand the protected areas.
Natural landscapes Reserve
Security zone located on the Taimyr Peninsula.The organizers managed to cover a wide variety of landscapes: the southern, and typical Arctic tundra, forest tundra.Reserve "Taimyr" is located within the permafrost, reaching about 0.5 km.The protected zone is mainly located on flat relief, that is where the rivers, which are tributaries of Khatanga.Here there is also the largest lake in the Taimyr and several smaller lakes.
Climate Taimyr
Climatic features Taimyr Reserve is largely dependent on the phenomenon of the polar night.In this area, it lasts a little more than two months, the polar day is stored for 83 days.In the Taimyr Peninsula winter lasts up to 10 months, sometimes up to 8. But the summer mainly occurs in late June and lasts until August.In winter on the plains the temperature is kept within -45 ° C, and in the mountains, the thermometer drops to -60 ° C.In the summer, a sharp warming, the temperature can be up to +30 ° C, but it remains no more than a week.
Flora and fauna of Taimyr
preserve vegetation cover very diverse.The protected zone is divided into a southern typical and the arctic tundra.In the coldest part of Arctic plants are not so much.There are mainly found moss, matted and snowy luzula, alpine foxtail, polar YWCA.Typical tundra richer, you can meet several species of mosses, sedges arktosibirskuyu, pitting Dryad.The greatest variety of striking southern territory, since it found thickets ernika, alder and willow, is also a red currant, wild rose.On the slopes you can find puzyrnik Dyke, puzyrnik fragile, Dryopteris smelly and other northern ferns.
Although the climate is cold and harsh, but the beast is rich Taimyr Reserve.Animals are mainly represented by wild reindeer, musk oxen, ermine, there are also wolves, lynx.The main food of the predators at the same time the most important in the tundra is a living being a lemming.The reserve birds and animals are found in such large numbers that even it is not clear how they can feed this poor-looking nature.Although it only seems so, in fact, it is the high biological productivity of plants, rivers and lakes many fish, rodents multiply rapidly, so they are able to feed the many white owls, foxes, falcons and other birds of prey and mammals.
animals included in the Red Book
Reserve "Taimyr" sheltered many representatives of fauna at risk of extinction.Scientists are doing in order to increase their population.Among the mammals in the Red Book includes Laptev walrus subspecies, polar bear and musk ox.Birds much more: red-breasted goose, white-tailed eagle, peregrine falcon, a small swan, piskulka Eider, falcon, broad-billed sandpiper, pink and Sabine's gulls, Icelandic sandpiper and others.
What's worth seeing on the Taimyr Peninsula?
about Russian reserves can talk a lot, but it is better to see once with my own eyes all this beauty.Taimyr is far away, but still worth it to set aside time to visit him, because there are a lot of interesting places.First of all, it is recommended to go to the museum.The first is dedicated to ethnography and nature, the second - research on mammoths, and the third - Dolgan poetess Ogduo Aksenov.In the protection zone can be viewed on the Laptev walrus rookeries subspecies, forest, located in the northernmost part of the world.On the river Dyabyaka-Tari has fossils of marine fauna, belonging to another Jurassic period.
Not all the reserves of the world and Russia have so many interesting places to visit, how many of them on the Taimyr Peninsula.On the upper river Taimyr can visit ancient sites hunting for deer, as there are completely abandoned even in the middle of the twentieth century settlement.Many will be interesting to look at the ruins of the wintering expedition Chariton Laptev and explorers, as well as expectations Bay polar stations that are closed during this period.Also a great interest are themselves residents of the reserve.Here for days you can watch the birds and animals, they are not afraid of people, so you can look at them from close range.
main Russian reserves
There are a great number of natural areas under protection.Map of Russian reserves will help all who wish to get more information about these unique areas, and their attractions.Fans can visit the forest Altai region.The reserve is home to many fauna, valuable plants grow.Buryatia is temnohvoynotaezhny complex.Baikal reserve covers Khamar-Daban and the southern coast of Lake Baikal.
Also worth noting Primorsky Krai.There is a reserve "Cedar Pad" in which there are more than 800 species of flora of southern and northern species.Also in this security zone, you can see animals such as spotted deer, Ussuri Procellariiform, leopard, Asiatic black bear, raccoon dog and others. Reserve in Russia a lot, they are of great interest for researchers of flora and fauna, as well as for ordinary tourists.
