Sokhondo Nature Reserve (Siberia, Russia).Established in 1973, this was the first ecological reserve
Sokhondo Nature Reserve (Siberia, Russia).Established in 1973, this was the first ecological reserve in theformer Chita Oblast. It has a variety of steppe, forest and tundraecosystems, and thus the vegetation and animal species are extremelydiverse.Surrounding the reserve, the landscape is mostly a steppe ecosystem. Within the reserve, a series of forest ecosystems replace each otheras the altitude increases up to 2000m. The summit of SokhondoMountain is a flat plain, strewn with large boulder concentrationscalled kurums.The highest mountains within the reserve are Bolshoy Sokhondo (2505m)and Maly Sokhondo (2404m). The reserve is part of the YablonoiMountains, which can be considered a south-western extension of theStanovoy Range. -- source link
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