State Nature Reserve Stolby

Description

The Stolby National Nature Reserve is located at the border between the northwestern offshoots of the Eastern Sayan mountains and the Central Siberian Plateau, where the plateau joins the West-Siberian Plain and the Altay-Sayan Mountains. The reserve is naturally bounded by the right tributaries of the Yenisey River (the Bazaiha River on the northeast, the Mana and Bolshaya Slizneva rivers on the south and south-west) and approaches the outskirts of Krasnoyarsk city in the northeast. The reserve is known for 100 m deep karst caves but is especially famous as a site where about a hundred rocks are scattered amid the taiga. The rocks are 40-100 m high, and are composed of Cambrian (600 myr) to Carboniferous (350 - 300 myr) syenites, volcanics, and sediments. The reserve was created in 1925 on the public initiative of Krasnoyarsk citizens seeking to preserve the nature around the picturesque rock pillars. Nowadays its area covers more 47 000 hectars. About 4 % of the territory, the nearest to the city, is used as a recreation area visited by over 700 thousand tourists yearly. Mountains make the climate in the reserve milder than the continental climate of the forested steppe in its surroundings. Mean annual air temperature about +0.3 oC (against +1,5oC in Krasnoyarsk), 1.5 times higher humidity and precipitation (646 mm), and a shorter vegetation period (138 days). Soils and vegetation in the area vary with altitude. The lowlands are covered mainly by deciduous trees and light conifers and the highlands by light and dark coniferous taiga. The unique position of the reserve at the junction of three different geographical and floristic provinces (forested steppe in the Krasnoyarsk region, mountain taiga in the Eastern Sayans, and taiga in the Central Siberian Plateau) accounts for the high diversity of its fauna and flora. The flora counts up to 1300 species including 267 species of mosses and 165 species of lichens . More than 150 species are under special protection. Eight basic tree species are represented mainly by pines (41%) and firs (28%). Mammalas (61 species) are represented mainly by species typical of south-eastern Siberia, such as wolf, bear, fox, sables, wolwerine, Siberian deer, musk deer, etc. The 201 species of birds including 41 of rare species (osprey, golden eagle, saker, Siberian lentils, hedge-sparrow, etc.). The reserve is a site of long term (more 80 years) studies of environmental issues, including the recreational and technlogical impacts on a natural system, and purposeful research of rare animal and plant species.

Contacts

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Vladislav Vinogradov
660006, Krasnoyarsk region, Krasnoyarsk, Kariernaya 26
email: vlad-vin@yandex.ru

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Elena Andreeva
660006, Krasnoyarsk region, Krasnoyarsk, Kariernaya 26
Telephone: +73912613130
email: elan56789@gmail.com

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Vladimir Kozsheechkin
position: Senior researcher
660006, Krasnoyarsk region, Krasnoyarsk, Kariernaya 26
Telephone: +73912613130
email: nau-stolby@yandex.ru

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Elena Tropina
660006, Krasnoyarsk region, Krasnoyarsk, Kariernaya 26
Telephone: +73912613130
email: tropina-soil@yandex.ru

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Nadezhda Goncharova
position: Senior Researcher
660006, Krasnoyarsk region, Krasnoyarsk, Kariernaya 26
Telephone: +79293557780
email: goa82@bk.ru

ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Anastasia Knorre
position: Science Deputy Director
660006, Krasnoyarsk region, Krasnoyarsk, Kariernaya 26
Telephone: +73912613130
email: aknorre@ksc.krasn.ru

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Alexander Hritankov
660006, Krasnoyarsk region, Krasnoyarsk, Kariernaya 26
Telephone: +79235442401
email: akhritankov@yandex.ru

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Vladislav Timoshkin
660006, Krasnoyarsk region, Krasnoyarsk, Kariernaya 26
email: rv1e@yandex.ru

State Nature Reserve Stolby
660006, Krasnoyarsk region, Krasnoyarsk, Kariernaya 26
Krasnoyarsk
660006
Krasnoyarsk region
RU
email: nau-stolby@yandex.ru