Central Sikhote-Alin
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How it came to be
The Sikhote-Alin range runs about 900 kilometres north-east of Vladivostok through Primorsky and Khabarovsk Krais in the Russian Far East. Its forests mix taiga with subtropical elements, so that southern species such as the tiger and Himalayan bear live alongside northern ones such as the brown bear and lynx.
In the 1910s and 1920s the Russian geographer and naturalist Vladimir Arsenyev explored the range widely and described his travels in books including Dersu Uzala (1923). Largely through his exploration and advocacy, the Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve was founded on 10 February 1935, first to protect the sable. On 12 February 1947 one of the largest meteorite showers in recent history fell in these mountains.
The site was inscribed in 2001 for its importance to the scaly-sided merganser, Blakiston's fish owl and the Amur tiger. In 2018 it was extended by 1,160,469 hectares of Bikin National Park, created on 3 November 2015, as the Bikin River Valley, where some 600 Udege and Nanai people still live by fishing, hunting and gathering pine nuts.
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