There are 49 national parks scattered across Russia, some of them located in truly remote places so it’s really hard to reach them, so get ready for an adventure. 1. Elk Island, Moscow.

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So as Russia declares 2017 the Year of Ecology and Protected Areas, indigenous groups have reason to be wary. Natural resources minister Sergei Donskoi recently projected a 22 percent increase of ...

Stepanitsky says that by 2020, Russia is planning no fewer than 18 new federally protected areas, including at least five new zapovedniks, at least 11 national parks, and two federal refuges as ...

Remote Russian national parks you haven’t seen before. Travel Dec 31 2016 ... Russia's oldest wildlife sanctuary, which gave birth to the national system of natural parks.

Discover Russia’s top five national parks and nature reserves which are widely considered as travel destinations for food nature lovers to visit: Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve The Manpupuner rock ...

The Russian Orthodox Church, Gazprom, and the government have created a chain of some 20 Russian "history parks" that historians say present a "propagandistic" view of history with one main lesson ...

MOSCOW, January 29, /ITAR-TASS/. Russia’s and the United States’ national parks in the Bering Strait area will be symbolically merged. A memorandum of understanding between the governments of ...