The Caucasus reserve
It is difficult to find in our country and all over the world, section of nature, endowed with such a rich flora and fauna, as well as the Caucasian state biosphere reserve is the oldest nature reserve in Russia.
It is located on the Northern and southern slopes of the Western Caucasus. Actually reserve this area announced may 12, 1924, a decree of people's Commissars of the RSFSR, but the history of conservation of the unique natural complex was started much earlier, since the organization in 1888 Grand "Kuban hunting".
Being the largest protected area of the Caucasus isthmus and the second largest in Europe, the reserve occupies the land of Krasnodar Krai, the republics of Adygea and Karachay-Cherkessia. The total area of the reserve is more than 280 thousand hectares Management of the reserve is located in Adler, and in Maikop is Adyg scientific Department. In the state reserve - more than 100 people, structurally included in scientific, security and environmental education departments.