Vishera Nature Reserve (russian: Вишерский заповедник) (also Vishersky) is a Russian ''
zapovednik
Zapovednik (russian: заповедник, plural , from the Russian , 'sacred, prohibited from disturbance, committed o protect committed o heritage; ) is an established term on the territory of the former Soviet Union for a protected area which ...
'' (strict nature reserve) in the middle latitudes of the
Ural Mountains
The Ural Mountains ( ; rus, Ура́льские го́ры, r=Uralskiye gory, p=ʊˈralʲskʲɪjə ˈɡorɨ; ba, Урал тауҙары) or simply the Urals, are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western ...
in
Perm Krai
Perm Krai (russian: Пе́рмский край, r=Permsky kray, p=ˈpʲɛrmskʲɪj ˈkraj, ''Permsky krai'', , ''Perem lador'') is a federal subject of Russia (a krai) that came into existence on December 1, 2005 as a result of the 2004 re ...
,
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...
. It covers an area of 2,412 km
2, more than 75% of which is dark coniferous forest (
taiga
Taiga (; rus, тайга́, p=tɐjˈɡa; relates to Mongolic and Turkic languages), generally referred to in North America as a boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruc ...
). An additional 20% of the territory is treeless mountain landscape. The
Vishera Vishera may refer to:
* Vishera FX-series CPU, codename for a line of CPU by AMD
* Vishera Nature Reserve, in Perm Krai, Russia
* Malaya Vishera
Malaya Vishera (russian: Ма́лая Ви́шера) is a town and the administrative center of Ma ...
, flows through nature reserve for about 130 km. Administratively, the reserve is located in the extreme north-east of Perm Krai, in
Krasnovishersky District.
Topography
The reserve occupies 1.5% of Perm Krai's area (comparable to the size of
Luxembourg
Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...
). The highest peak in the reserve territory
Tulymsky Kamen (1,469 m), also the highest point of Perm Krai. The lowest point is 231 m above sea level.
The extreme north point of the nature reserve (that is also the most northern point in Perm Krai) is divided basins of
,
Pechora River and
Ob River
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The Ob ( rus, Обь, p=opʲ: Ob') is a major river in Russia. It is in western Siberia; and together with Irtysh forms the world's seventh-longest river system, at . It forms at the confluence of the Biya and Katun which have their origins ...
. The small population of this place is made up of the
Mansi people
The Mansi ( Mansi: Мāньси / Мāньси мāхум, ''Māńsi / Māńsi māhum'', ) are a Ugric indigenous people living in Khanty–Mansia, an autonomous okrug within Tyumen Oblast in Russia. In Khanty–Mansia, the Khanty and Man ...
.
Ecoregion and climate
Vishersky is in the
Urals montane tundra and taiga ecoregion, a region the runs north–south along the ridge of the Urals Mountains that separates the
Russian Plain
The East European Plain (also called the Russian Plain, "Extending from eastern Poland through the entire European Russia to the Ural Mountaina, the ''East European Plain'' encompasses all of the Baltic states and Belarus, nearly all of Ukraine, an ...
from the
West Siberian Plain
The West Siberian Plain (russian: За́падно-Сиби́рская равни́на ''Zapadno-Sibirskaya ravnina'') is a large plain that occupies the western portion of Siberia, between the Ural Mountains in the west and the Yenisei River ...
.
The climate of Vishersky is ''
Humid continental climate, cool summer'' (
Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ...
Subartic climate(Dfc)). This climate is characterized by mild summers (only 1–3 months above ) and cold, snowy winters (coldest month below ).
Flora and fauna
Large area of fir and spruce virgin forest. Also you can find here
Siberian Pine
''Pinus sibirica'', or Siberian pine, in the family Pinaceae is a species of pine tree that occurs in Siberia from 58°E in the Ural Mountains east to 126°E in the Stanovoy Range in southern Sakha Republic, and from Igarka at 68°N in the lower ...
, mountain ash and birch.
There are 36 species of mammals, 155 – birds, 6 – fishes and 2 amphibians. Among mammals there are Brown Bear, Gray wolf, Reindeer, Sable and others.
References
External links
Map boundaries of Vishera Reserve on OpenStreetMap.orgMap boundaries of Vishera Reserve on ProtectedPlanet.net
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Nature reserves in Russia
1991 establishments in Russia
Protected areas established in 1991
Geography of Perm Krai
Zapovednik