Ramsar sites in Russia
Ramsar sites are natural locations under the protection of the Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands. As of 2013 there are 35 Ramsar sites in Russia, totalling an area of 103,237.67 km2.[1]
The first Russian sites registered in the Ramsar Convention, on 11 October 1976 (during the Soviet era), were Kandalaksha Bay Lake Khanka and the Volga River delta.
List of Ramsar sites in Russia
| Name[1] |
Location |
Area (km2) |
Designated |
Description |
Image |
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| Area between the Pura River & Mokoritto River |
Taymyria |
~11,250 |
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| Beryozovye Islands |
Leningrad Oblast
60°19′48″N 28°33′36″E / 60.33000°N 28.56000°E / 60.33000; 28.56000 (Beryozovye Islands) |
120 |
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| Brekhovsky Islands |
Yenisei estuary in Taymyria |
~14,000 |
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| Chany Lake |
Novosibirsk Oblast |
3,648.48 |
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| Gorbita River Delta |
Taymyria
73°00′00″N 94°55′00″E / 73.00000°N 94.91667°E / 73.00000; 94.91667 (Gorbita River Delta) |
750 |
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| Islands in Ob River Estuary |
Yamalo-Nenetsia |
1,280 |
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| Islands in Onega Bay |
Karelia |
36 |
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| Kama-Bakaldino mires |
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast |
2,265 |
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| Kandalaksha Bay |
Murmansk Oblast
66°55′0″N 32°45′0″E / 66.91667°N 32.75000°E / 66.91667; 32.75000 (Kandalaksha Bay) |
2,080 |
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| Karaginsky Island |
Kamchatka Krai |
1,935.97 |
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| Khingano-Arkharinskaya Lowland |
Amur Oblast |
~2,000 |
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| Kuban River Delta: Akhtaro-Grivenskaya group of limans |
Krasnodar Krai |
846 |
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| Kuban River Delta: Group of limans between rivers Kuban & Protoka |
Krasnodar Krai |
884 |
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| Kurgalsky Peninsula |
Leningrad Oblast |
650 |
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| Lake Bolon & the mouths of the Selgon River & Simmi Rivers |
Khabarovsk Krai |
538 |
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| Lake Khanka |
Primorsky Krai
45°0′0″N 132°25′0″E / 45.00000°N 132.41667°E / 45.00000; 132.41667 (Lake Khanka) |
3,100 |
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A freshwater lake important for birds including a number of endangered species. |
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| Lake Manych-Gudilo |
Kalmykia & Rostov Oblast |
1126 |
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| Lake Udyl & the mouths of the Bichi Bitki & Pilda Rivers |
Khabarovsk Krai |
576 |
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| Lower Dvuobje |
Khanty–Mansi & Yamalo-Nenetsia |
5,400 |
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| Moroshechnaya River |
Kamchatka Krai |
2,190 |
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| Mshinskaya Wetland system |
Leningrad Oblast
59°3′0″N 30°13′0″E / 59.05000°N 30.21667°E / 59.05000; 30.21667 (Mshinskaya Wetland) |
751 |
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A bird sanctuary. Rare species of birds include osprey, golden eagle, white stork, black stork, black-throated loon, whooper swan, Eurasian curlew, Eurasian eagle-owl, and Eurasian bittern. |
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| Oka River & Pra River floodplains |
Ryazan Oblast |
1,615.42 |
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| Parapolsky Dol |
Kamchatka Krai |
12,000 |
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| Pskovsko-Chudskaya Lowland |
Pskov Oblast |
936 |
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| Selenga Delta |
Buryatia |
121 |
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| Southern coast of the Gulf of Finland |
Leningrad Oblast |
64 |
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| Svir River Delta |
Leningrad Oblast |
605 |
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| Tobol-Ishim Forest-steppe |
Tyumen Oblast |
12170 |
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| Torey Lakes |
Chita Oblast |
1,725 |
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| Upper Dvuobje |
Khanty–Mansi |
4,700 |
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| Utkholok |
Kamchatka Krai |
2200 |
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| Veselovskoye Reservoir |
Rostov Oblast |
3,090 |
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| Volga River Delta |
Astrakhan Oblast |
8,000 |
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| Wetlands in the Lower Bagan area |
Novosibirsk Oblast |
268.8 |
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| Zeya-Bureya Plains |
Amur Oblast |
316 |
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