Kronotsky Nature Reserve is a strict nature reserve on the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East, formally established in 1934, its protection tracing back to an earlier sable reserve set aside in the nineteenth century. It protects an intensely volcanic landscape of active and dormant volcanoes and hot springs, most famously the Valley of Geysers, one of the largest geyser fields on Earth, part of which was reshaped by a major landslide in 2007. The reserve shelters brown bear, Steller's sea eagle and salmon-spawning rivers, and it forms part of the Volcanoes of Kamchatka UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Facts
Designation CategoryZapovednik (strict nature reserve) 2 Established Year Area (sq km)Infobox states 11,421 km2 (4,410 sq mi) while the article introduction states the current boundary is 10,990 km2 (4,240 sq mi); figure taken from infobox, discrepancy unresolved in source. Governing BodyFSBI Kronotsky State Nature Biosphere Reserve 1 IUCN Category Classification
Governance TypeGovernance by Government 1 International DesignationUNESCO World Heritage Site 2 Sources
1. About The Organization - Kronotsky Reserve
About the organization page
Federal state budgetary institution "Kronotsky state nature biosphere reserve" (the short organization name is FSBI "Kronotsky state reserve") performs the management of three specially protected natural areas
Governing body field (existing citation)
FSBI Kronotsky State Nature Biosphere Reserve
View the Source2. Kronotsky Nature Reserve - Wikipedia
Lead paragraph
Kronotsky (Кроноцкий) Nature Reserve (also: Kronotsky Biosphere Zapovednik) is a Russian zapovednik (strict nature reserve) reserved for the study of natural sciences in the remote Russian Far East, on the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Introduction, second sentence
It was created in 1934 and its current boundary contains an area of 10,990 km2 (4,240 sq mi).
Infobox: Area
11,421 km2 (4,410 sq mi)
Infobox: IUCN category
Ia (strict nature reserve)
entity-description, realm terrestrial
It protects an intensely volcanic landscape of active and dormant volcanoes and hot springs, most famously the Valley of Geysers, one of the largest geyser fields on Earth, part of which was reshaped by a major landslide in 2007.
entity-description, international-designation unesco-world-heritage-site
The reserve shelters brown bear, Steller's sea eagle and salmon-spawning rivers, and it forms part of the Volcanoes of Kamchatka UNESCO World Heritage Site.
View the SourceWikidata: Kronotsky Nature Reserve
- Wikidata Q1789960, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Part Of: Russia, Wikidata item, property P17 (country)
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