Russia
Central Sikhote-Alin
Central Sikhote-Alin by Roman Bruehwiler
Central Sikhote-Alin comprises intact forest landscapes in a mountain range in the Russian Far East.
Sikhote-Alin comprises one of the most extraordinary temperate zones in the world, with highly diverse flora and fauna. Species typical of northern taiga (such as reindeer and the brown bear) coexist with tropical species like the Amur tiger and the Himalayan bear.
Community Perspective: The site consists of three protected areas. Martina has described access via Terney, from where she did three hikes. The season here is short, from July to October.
Site Info
Official Information
- Full Name
- Central Sikhote-Alin (ID: 766)
- Country
- Russia
- Status
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Inscribed 2001
Site history
History of Central Sikhote-Alin
- 2001: Inscribed
- Inscribed
- 2018: Extended
- With Bikin River Valley
- 2018: Advisory Body overruled
- IUCN advised a Referral for the Bikin River extension
- WHS Type
- Natural
- Criteria
- x
Links
- UNESCO
- whc.unesco.org
All Links
UNESCO.org
- whc.unesco.org — whc.unesco.org/
Related Resources
- wild-russia.org — Wild Russia
News Article
- June 10, 2011 wwf.panda.org — The discovery of plans to log key Amur tiger habitat in a proposed UNESCO World Heritage Site has led to a public outcry demanding the cancellation of the logging lease in Russia
Community Information
- Community Category
- Natural landscape: Forest
- Archaeological site: Near Eastern
Travel Information
Recent Connections
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Perfect Inscriptions
2001 -
Strict Nature Reserve
Partly: Sikhote-Alinskiy Nature Preserv… -
Centres of Plant Diversity
CA5 Primorye - "unique species assembla…
Connections of Central Sikhote-Alin
- Geography
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Sea of Japan
"The site stretches from the peaks of Sikhote-Alin to the Sea of Japan" - AB Document
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- History
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Palaeolithic and Mesolithic
In terms of archaeological monuments on the nominated property, there are monuments deriving from the late Palaeolithic times (the northern enclave of the known Ustinov culture)See www.eoearth.org
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- Ecology
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Taiga
"harbours representations of some of the globally most diverse and intact temperate mixed and broadleaf forests, known as the Ussuriyskaya or Ussuri Taiga" (OUV) -
Tiger habitat
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Bears
Himalayan bear -
Otters
Eurasian otter -
Gray Wolf
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Virgin Forests
See en.wikipedia.org
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Strict Nature Reserve
Partly: Sikhote-Alinskiy Nature Preserve (Zapovednik). No restrictions known.
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- Damaged
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Meteorite impact
Sikhote-Alin is an iron meteorite that fell in 1947 on the Sikhote-Alin Mountains in southeastern Siberia (wiki)See en.wikipedia.org
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- World Heritage Process
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Extended
2018: With Bikin River Valley -
Inscribed on a single criterion only
x. to contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation. -
Perfect Inscriptions
2001
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- Human Activity
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Natural sites with indigenous human population
Udege indigenous people in Bikin TTNU (AB)See en.wikipedia.org
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- WHS on Other Lists
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Centres of Plant Diversity
CA5 Primorye - "unique species assemblages showing boreal, temperate and subtropical faunal and floral elements, recognized as a global “Centre of Plant Diversity”. The recorded 1,200 species of vascular plant species, including some 180 trees and shrubs, is extraordinarily high for a temperate forest and comprises numerous endemics" -
World Biosphere Reserves
Sikhote Alin (1978) -
World Heritage Forest Programme
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- WHS Names
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Named after a Mountain
- "a mountain range in Primorsky and Khabarovsk Krais, Russia, extending about 900 kms (560 mi) to the northeast ....of Vladivostok. The highest summits are Tordoki Yani at 2,077 metres (6,814 ft) asl, Ko Mountain (2,003 metres (6,572 ft) and Anik Mountain (1,933 metres (6,342 ft)"
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Location for a classic movie
Dersu Uzala (1975, winner of the critics' prize at Moscow International Film Festival)See en.wikipedia.org
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News
- wwf.panda.org 06/10/2011
- The discovery of plans to log key …
Recent Visitors
- Martina Rúčková
- Ivan Rucek
- Yevhen Ivanovych
- Nihal Ege
- Roman Bruehwiler
- Alexander Barabanov
- eateateat
Visitors of Central Sikhote-Alin
Community Reviews
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Desperate times call for desperate measures. So when Ivan and I got stuck in Russia for a progressively longer and longer time, we started not only revisiting old Russian WHSs, but thought about visiting the new ones too. Not many left, but we did what we could and Ivan planned a week-long trip along regions of Russian Far East.
Having been to Kamchatka and Lena Pillars already, it was Sikhote-Alin Natural reserve that remain to be visited. Your hub will be Vladivostok. From there, there are three ways of getting in and out of Terney, a gateway to the park. One is comfortable, another two are weatherproof. September is said to be the best weatherwise, so we chose the comfortable one - with a small De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft on a daily line between Vladivostok and Terney, operated by Aurora Airlines, a subsidiary of Aeroflot. Prices are subsidized by the government and a plane ticket (2600 rubles) is actually cheaper than 14-hour bus ride (3000 rubles). The bus to and from Vladivostok departs twice a day: in the morning and in the evening. Alternatively you can rent a car in Vladivostok and drive yourself (11 hours approx. without stops) but the roads are quite ghastly, especially between Dalnegorsk and Terney.
We flew to Terney, but our return flight from Terney got cancelled due to bad weather - airport has a dirt-road of a landing strip and if it rains it gets muddy thus impossible to …
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