Khakassky State Nature Reserve
The Khakassky State Nature Reserve was established by the resolution #1004 of the Government of the Russian Federation from September 4th, 1999, on the basis of Chazy and Maly Abakan state nature reserves. The Khakassky Reserve is located on the territory of the Republic of Khakassia and includes 9 isolated sections in Ordzhonikidzevsky, Shira, Bograd, Ust-Abakan and Tashtyp districts.
The total area of the reserve is 267.6 thousand hectares.
The Khakassky Reserve is the nature conservation, research and eco-educational organization of federal importance. The main functions of the reserve are preservation and study of natural processes and phenomena, preservation of the certain species and communities and the gene pool of plant and animal populations.
The Khakassky Reserve’s team is responsible for:
- Protection of natural complexes and objects
- Environmental monitoring
- Organization and conducting scientific studies and maintenance of Nature Сhronicle
- Environmental education
- Assistance in training of scientists and environmentalists
The specificity of natural conditions of the reserve’s territory that determins the variety of biological and landscape diversities allows combining them in two natural groups: steppe and mountain taiga.
The main protected objects in the Khakassky Reserve are:
Steppe group of areas
- Steppe, meadow and wood-shrubby plant communities and animal world of steppe and forest-steppe vegetation zones of Minusinsk Hollow
- Inland waters (lakes)
- Wetlands
- Habitats of rare and endemic plants
- 244 birds, 52 mammals, 6 reptiles and 4 amphibians
- 837 higher vascular plants
Mountain taiga group of areas
- Cedar forests with inherent complexes of plant and animal world
- More than 139 birds, 50 mammals, 3 reptiles and 3 amphibians
- 540 higher vascular plants
Valuable game animals:
- sable (Martes zibellina Linnaeus, 1758)
- maral (Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758)
- elk (Alces alces Linnaeus, 1758)
- mink (Neovison vison Schreber, 1777)
- capercailzie (Tetrao urogallus Linnaeus, 1758)
Breeding sites for the following species:
- grayling (Tliymallus arcticus Pallas 1776)
- lenok (Brachymystax lenok Pallas, 1773)
- taimen (Нucho taimen Pallas, 1773)
Rare animal species of Altai-Sayan Mountains that are listed in the Red Data Book of the Russian Federation and the Red Data Book of the Republic of Khakassia:
- reindeer (Rangifer tarandus Linnaeus, 1758)
- musk deer (Moschus moschiferus Linnaeus, 1758)
- otter (Lutra lutra Linnaeus, 1758)
- snow leopard (Uncia uncia Schreber, 1776)