Lapland Nature Reserve
Monchegorsk, Zeleniy Lane, d. 8Kola Peninsula, as a source of rich natural resources, has attracted the attention of researchers in the 20-30 years of the XX century. During this period, our northern expanses employed about 400 different expeditions: Geology and Mineralogy; scientific and commercial; soil and botanical; anthropological-ethnographic and others.
Lapland Nature Reserve
Kola Peninsula, as a source of rich natural resources, has attracted the attention of researchers in the 20-30 years of the XX century. During this period, our northern expanses employed about 400 different expeditions: Geology and Mineralogy; scientific and commercial; soil and botanical; anthropological-ethnographic and others.
Anticipating industrial development of the Kola land, and understanding the importance and the need to preserve the integrity of the natural landscape area with the edge of the primitive flora and fauna for future generations, wise and far-sighted people, who lived on the Kola Peninsula, Professor Krueger, director of the Khibiny experienced field IG Eichfeld, forester forestry Imandra YN Rumin and others proposed in the mid-20s to create a nature reserve in the area of Chuna-tundra and tundra-Monche. Most in need of protection while the wild reindeer.
Accounting for wild reindeer. I supported and implemented this idea into practice Herman M. Kreps. In 1928-29 in the future of the reserve was carried out keeping reindeer, it turned out to be 95 animals, and written description of the vegetation expedition GD Richter. On the basis of materials provided by January 17, 1930 the Leningrad Oblast Executive Committee (at the time of the Murmansk Region was part of the Leningrad region) has decided to organize the Lapland Reserve. The main purpose of the reserve is to preserve the northern taiga, mountain tundra and wild deer populations. The reserve area at the time was about 1600 square meters. km.
In the summer of 1930 the first cordon of the reserve on the north shore Chunozera was built in September and October were recruited first three employees, among them Oleg Izmailovich Semenov-Tyan-Shan, who wrote in his diary about this time: “In the autumn frosts We came early and shallow lake Voce-Lambin, through which it was necessary to drive to get to Chunozersky cordon was in early October. In the October holidays warmer, the snow melted. Using this, we left the village Hibiny two boats and 14 November 1930 arrived at Chunozero: Reserve started to work. ”
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