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17-631: The park's natural borders are the Bazaikha River , a right tributary of the Yenisei River , in the northeast; the Mana River in the south; and the Bolshaya Slizneva  [ ru ] River in the southwest. To the northeast, the park borders the city of Krasnoyarsk . The park is divided into two regions. The first is straight Stolby, which is open to tourists. The second is "Wild Stolby", which

34-645: A Baikal nature park. A similar natural park was also designed in the Lake Seliger area on the Valdai Hills. In 1966, the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda published an article by Innokenti Gerasimov and Vladimir Preobrazhensky, which discussed the need to create a system of natural parks in the USSR. Natural parks were not just thought of as places for tourists to relax, but also as places to protect animals and plants in areas that park tourists would not be allowed to visit without

51-483: A Krasnoyarsk teacher named Ivan Savenkov organized school trips to the "Pillars". In 1886, Savenkov published a topographical description of the suburbs of Krasnoyarsk. From the late 1940s to the beginning of the 21st century, 16 collections of scientific papers about the Pillars were published. The effect of air pollution and recreational using on taiga ecosystems was investigated. Ivan Belyak has authored several books about

68-526: A guide. The oldest parks in Russia are Sochinsky and Losiny Ostrov (1983); Samarskaya Luka (1984); Mariy Chodra (1985); Bashkiriya , Prielbrusye , Pribaykalsky , and Zabaykalsky (1986). According to the law on the protected areas of Russia , national parks are areas of land and water devoted to nature protection, ecological education, and scientific research. They contain sites of particular ecological, historical and aesthetic value. Regulated tourism

85-464: A total of approximately 155,672 square kilometers (60,105 sq mi). Until the 1960s only nature reserves ( zapovedniks ) and zakazniks existed in the Soviet Union, so international experience in creating a form of protected areas intended for tourists to relax and teach them to take care of nature was very important. In 1961, Soviet geographers, headed by Innokenti Gerasimov , director of

102-473: Is located deeper the park, and where access is restricted. Stolby is located in the East Siberian taiga ecoregion, in the heart of Siberia. The climate is subarctic , without dry season ( Köppen climate classification , Dfc). This climate is characterized by mild summers and cold, snowy winters. Flora of the national park includes about 740 vascular plants and 260 kinds of mosses. Fir taiga , which

119-543: Is permitted. The area of each park is divided into zones according to various functions. There should be a strictly protected area managed as a zapovednik , and also recreational and buffer zones in which economic activity is allowed, such as tourism, traditional land use, and benign forms of agriculture and forestry. The strictly protected function is sometimes fulfilled by a neighbouring official zapovednik; for instance, Barguzin Zapovednik adjoins Zabaykalsky National Park on

136-626: Is the third largest river in the Krasnoyarsk neighborhood after Yenisey and Mana . The name derived from the Kamassian bazaī-ďağa — iron river. The length of the Bazaikha is 128 kilometres (80 mi) and the area of its basin is 21,700 square kilometres (8,400 sq mi). Beginning in the Eastern Sayan mountains it flows west-northward without a contact with populated places until

153-503: Is typical for the midlands of the Eastern Sayan, prevails. 290 species of vertebrates are found in the territory of the park, including many with a taiga habitat, (red-backed mouse, sable , Siberian musk deer , hazel grouse and others), as well as some forest-steppe animals ( Siberian roe deer , steppe polecat , long-tailed ground squirrel and others). Also, there are species from The Red Book of Russia: Visitors are able to get to

170-700: The Institute of Geography, USSR Academy of Sciences, visited the United States. This trip was an introduction to the USA experience in environmental protection and Soviet scientists visited the Yellowstone National Park and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park . After the trip, Innokenti Gerasimov returned to the idea of creating nature parks in the USSR, in 1965 he proposed the creation of

187-612: The Russian Empire," "Description of plants of the Russian state," and "Russian-Asian zoogeography." The gold rush started in Siberia in the 1830s. Gold was mined in the Stolby. "Royev Ruchey" (Eng. "Scooped Brook") was so named because of the activities of miners. In 1833, furs of 67 sables, foxes and 43 to thousands of skins of other animals were obtained in the Stolby region. In 1870 and 1880s,

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204-599: The Stolby between 1720 and 1727. He visited Krasnoyarsk three times during his 7-year exploration of Siberia. Vitus Bering visited it in 1733–1734. In 1735 the Pillars were seen by the members of the Second Kamchatka Expedition , including naturalists Johann Georg Gmelin and his assistant Stepan Krasheninnikov . In 1771–1773, Peter Simon Pallas visited the Stolby. He lived about a year in Krasnoyarsk, working on such papers as "Journey in various provinces of

221-427: The area. The core of the area was declared a natural reserve ( zapovednik ) on June 30, 1925, by the Krasnoyarsk soviet in order to protect the picturesque Syenite Buttes and surrounding rocky landscape. About 3.5% of the territory was open to hikers seeking to visit and climb the rocks. In 1947 a married couple (Yelena Krutovskaya and James Dulkeyt) set up a farm for wild animals injured by poachers. In 2000, it

238-417: The boundary of the park by city bus. The main attraction of the park is the rocks; the collective name of the rocks is Stolby, although all of the large formations, and even some smaller stones, have their own names. Inhabitants of Krasnoyarsk have been visiting Stolby for more than 150 years for sport and adventure holidays. Three districts are accessible to tourists: Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt explored

255-596: The railway station named Bazaikha which is 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of it. The closest approach to the wild part of Bazaikha is from the villages of Beryozovskiy and Magansk . This Krasnoyarsk Krai location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in Siberia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . National parks of Russia There are currently 64 national parks in Russia . They cover

272-547: The very confluence with the Yenisey in the suburbs near the southwestern edge of the Krasnoyarsk city. The valley is mostly deep and winding with the banks covered with conifers. Numerous resorts, dachas and cottages are built in the valley stretching for 14 kilometres (9 mi) inwards from the confluence. By the Yenisei, the village of Bazaikha is located in what is considered a part of Krasnoyarsk; it should not be confused with

289-528: Was expanded into a zoo named Royev Ruchey . In 2007 Stolby was submitted to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites , but the inscription was deferred indefinitely. On December 4, 2019, the legal status of the Stolby Nature Reserve was changed to that of a national park (IUCN category II). Bazaikha River The Bazaikha ( Russian : База́иха ) is a river in the Krasnoyarsk Krai . It

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