Victor Nepomnyaschy, head of Khakassky Reserve

Federal State Budgetary Institution “Khakassky State Nature Reserve” is the organization created for providing nature conservation, scientific research, and environmental education activities.

Protection of nature complexes and objects on the reserve’s territory is implemented by the reserve’s state security inspection—the Security Department.

The Research Department activities that take place in the reserve and its protected territories are aimed at studying the nature complexes and long-term monitoring of the nature processes. This helps to estimate and forecast the ecological situation, develop scientific basis for nature protection, preserve the biodiversity, provide reproduction and sustainable use of natural resources.

Environmental education activities of the reserve are carried out by the Environmental Education Department. The department works on the following:

• Promotion of the reserve’s ideas among people
• Providing assistance in solving regional environmental problems
• Development of public environmental awarenes and ecological culture