New tourist centers and reserves to open in Russia this year

As part of the Ecology national project, several new tourist centers and reserves will open this year in Russia. According to the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia, much work will be done to develop the tourist infrastructure of national parks and protected areas to attract more visitors.

Thus, the national parks "Taganay" (the Chelyabinsk region), "Alania" (the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania), "Smolny" (the Republic of Mordovia), "Kislovodsky" (the Stavropol Territory) , “Saylyugemsky” (Altai Republic), “Tunkinsky” (the Republic of Buryatia), “Shushensky Bor” (the Krasnoyarsk Territory), “Russian Arctic” (the Arkhangelsk Region) and the Baikalsky Reserves (the Republic of Buryatia), “Sikhote-Alinsky” (the Primorsky Territory), Dagestan (the Republic of Dagestan), Cerny earth» (the Republic of Kalmykia) are expected to open tourist and environmental education centers.

In particular, the Russian Arctic national park will open a museum dedicated to the period of development of the high Arctic latitudes by the Soviet Union.

In the Kaluga Region, on the year of the 75th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, the Ugra-front landscape museum in the Ugra national park will be renewed.

The Meshchera National Park in the Vladimir region will inaugurate an open-air cage complex with bison as well as a dendrological park.

In addition, in 2020, 50 new eco-routes will be opened, most of which are thematic. Depending on the length, the routes will be equipped with campsites for huts, base camps for overnight stays.

The Visimsky reserve in the Sverdlovsk region will launch a scientific hospital, where both participants in scientific expeditions and students doing practice in the reserve, as well as groups of young naturalists, can be accommodated.

The Wrangel Island nature reserve in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug a fishing house will be opened to receive bird watching enthusiasts living in the lagoons of Popov and Predatorskaya.

The Ministry of Natural Resources reminded that the national project "Ecology" provides for the creation of 24 new special protected natural areas in Russia by 2024.