Taimyr State Natural Reserve

The pristine land is completely frozen 500 meters deep, a long hard land and a short breath of unkind summer. Even hardy brown bears are rare here. And only sometimes charged particles coming from the Sun, aurora tend to warm untouched by civilization expanses. This is a unique territory located in the Department of the State Natural Biosphere Reserve "Taimyr". Organized in 1979 on an area of 1374 thousand hectares in the central-eastern part of the Taimyr Peninsula, today it has an area of 2719688 hectares. Designed for the protection and study of natural communities of the tundra, the main protected species is the red-footed Cossack. In 1995, by decision of UNESCO, the reserve received the status of a biosphere reserve, the requirements for this type of reserves are extremely high. Since 1996, the Taimyr reserve has become a member of the international program for the reacclimatization of the North American sheep bull. On the Taimyr Peninsula, the territory of the reserve, lives the world's largest population of wild reindeer, numbering 700 thousand individuals.