Altai reserve in the city of Gorno-Altaisk

The official date of creation of the reserve is 1929, when a research expedition was sent to the Altai Territory under the leadership of the scientist V.I. Baranov. The government did not sign the documents for a long time. The paperwork lasted for two years. During this time, poachers got into the territory of the future reserve and almost killed marals in the taiga. This was the last significant argument about the creation of a security zone.

Today in the Altai reserve there are more than 500 species of algae and lichens, over a thousand species of plants. The reserve is rich in coniferous forests, where larch, Siberian fir and cedar meet. As for the fauna, only in the Altai reserve you can see reindeer, snow leopard, pink starling, black stork, irbis, wolverine and many other animals and birds listed in the Red Book as a rare, endangered species.