The most important page of the history of conservation: November 1, 1934 years then Government — Central Executive Committee included in Kronotsky the general system of nature reserves, and appoint a permanent funding of the state budget. 1951 and 1961 were years of anxiety, black: Reserve closed. But every time Kronotsky Biosphere Reserve, like the legendary phoenix, reborn again, when This is also increasing its area. While the latest regional developments began to join the site and Lazovsky adjacent to Kronotskii land three miles of the Pacific Ocean. The latter was made for the protection of marine mammals and the birds.

An intriguing fact: although the general presentation Kronotsky Nature Reserve has become almost a synonymous with geyser valley, established him as an this natural phenomenon no one not suspected! Since giving area state status to an outstanding opening twentieth century was seven years & hellip; April 14, 1941 has been opened first geyser, later called the Firstborn. On 25 July the for the first time, researchers have gone down in the the soaring canyon. In contrast to the other geyser fields of peace, Kronotsky Valley most compact: at area of ??4 square kilometers of splashing, hissing, bubbling and Bubble hundreds of the hot pulsating sources and geysers. The largest geysers — This Grotto and the Giant, they emit up to 60 tons of boiling water. The world's five largest geyser fields: a valley (the island of Iceland), Yellowstone (Wyoming, USA), North Island (New Zealand), Valley Geysers (Kamchatka, Russia), and El Tatio (Atacama Desert, Chile) .

Death Valley — site with at the ominous name the foot of the mighty volcano Kikhpinych in 7 kilometers from the titled «Miracle Russia», Valley geysers. It is natural «a gas chamber», where each year killed dozens of animals and the birds. The composition of the toxic gas cocktail Kamchatka is not fatal Valley is unique in the world.

And just in 15 kilometers from the Kronotsky geyser valley is another exceptional natural site — Uzon caldera of an extinct volcano. Giant self-destructed a series of explosive eruptions, but after 40 thousand years this land still hot, unpredictable and capricious.

fire-spitting volcano — Another symbol of the Kronotsky Nature Reserve. Of the 25 volcanoes, 8 — acting! Down on «neighbors» looks kronotsky, its height is 3528 meters above the sea level. Top giant often twists around itself in clouds a strange rings and spirals, and the reflection of a hill rests on water Kronotsky deepest lake. Krasheninnikov Volcano — house for the population of bighorn sheep. In Kamchatka, the animals to so far is the list of commercial and captured in the while the are virtually exterminated views. Since December 2010 at is a powerful reserve and feyericheski beautiful Kizimen eruption. This volcano slept 80 years, but now pours his red-hot lava slopes, and the vicinity of the ash falls asleep and the volcanic bombs.

Numerous glaciers and powerful glaciers on volcanoes are the attraction of the Kronotsky Nature Reserve. The largest of the They — Tyushevskii — has a length of 5.9 km and area of ??10.2 km & sup2; .

In the Kronotsky reserve is home to the largest in the world natural protected brown bear population to 800 individuals, the high number of sable, fox, otter; numerous swans and Steller's sea eagles. Wild reindeer, previously widespread on the across Kamchatka, now preserved only here, it's less than 1000 animals.

The the mountains of the reserve can be found graceful bighorn sheep. Cases and species «adding» — in the last century fauna Kronotsky enriched squirrel, lynx, mink, muskrat and the elk. Become rare peregrine falcon, golden eagle, merlin, the mountain hollows, and a large population of Steller's sea eagles decorate airspace reserve. Drop in and rare visit — Yellow-billed heron Japanese Crane, redstart, stilt, the hoopoe, and others.
In 1996 year Kronotsky State Nature Biosphere Reserve was included in the list of World Natural and the cultural values ??of UNESCO category «Volcanoes of Kamchatka».

unique natural sites of Kronotsky State Nature Biosphere Reserve:

The valley geysers

Death Valley

Uzon Caldera

The grove of fir graceful

Lake Kronotsky

Larch forest in the Kronotsky lake basin

Chazhminskie hot springs

Tyushevskii hot springs

Semyachikskie hot keys

Semyachiksky Liman

Schapinskie spruce

Glaciers Kronotsky Peninsula

Tour

In the Kronotsky Nature Reserve have been identified and are priority types of tourism — cognitive (scientific), and educational (environmental education). This excursion organized in such a way as to preserve the land remained untouched, maintaining its natural look.

«Geysers Kronotsky Nature Reserve» — a one-day guided tour

Geyser area Kronotsky Nature Reserve — one of the most spectacular in the world, a small area is concentrated more than 30 large geysers. On the mainland of our country does not even have remote counterparts. In contrast to the areas of Yellowstone geyser, Iceland and New Zealand, Kamchatka Valley of the geysers are very compact. Nature will hide in the the deep inaccessible canyon, it was open only in the 1941 by preserve geologist Tatyana Ustinova and its conductor Anisifor Krupenin.

Tourists learn about the causes and the consequences of a catastrophic landslide in 2007 year will see the lake geyser.
The guide will tell about the nature of volcanism and geothermal activity on the mechanism of action of the geyser and on various geyser models, and as a fitness flora and the animal world to the special microclimate in the geothermal area. Often, the sight is the group and the Kamchatka brown bear — the owner of the territory.

Time on the territory of the Kronotsky Nature Reserve — 2 - 2,5 hours.
Difficulty: public route available to people with full physical capabilities, special sports training is not require.
Important:
& Bull; The tour goes on flatness trails at must be accompanied by an inspector of the reserve and the guide.
& Bull; In May and June introduced restrictions on the operation of the route. Specific dates are specified, each year.
How to get there: organization of tours to the geysers Kronotsky reserve tour operators engaged in the Kamchatka region. On other issues, and for more information please contact Department of Environmental Education at the Kronotsky Nature Reserve +7 (41531) 7 16 52.

«Soaring land Uzon» — a one-day guided tour

Uzon Caldera — It is unique in the scale Earth area of ??contemporary volcanism. Itelmens called Uzon «soaring Lands». Stepping on the wooden flooring, tourists will feel, what hidden in the giant energy bowels of the earth. Uzon amaze you with wealth and form of volcanic manifestations.

This is a real museum of nature, where «collected» almost everything that is known for Kamchatka: hot springs and the cold river, mud pots and clear lakes, berry tundra, «dancing birch», the mountains and the swamp, animals and the birds. Geologist you or nerd, geochemist or a microbiologist, a zoologist, a volcanologist or a lover of wildlife — in this unique place you will certainly find for discover something new and interesting.
The hot springs Uzon like to laboratory retorts, born natural materials. It found the youngest oil the planet. Scientists observe the processes of mineralization, found unique metal compounds.
The solution scorching live incredible algae and bacteria for are poisonous boiling water — most coveted Wednesday.
Stepping on the land, you will plunge into the magical world of Uzon with its myths and legends.
Ecological and cognitive orientation tour — complex naturalistic observation in unique geothermal area. Along the route visitors will view of Lake Bath, chloride, eights, cloudy geyser, mud pots, clay volcanoes, see different panoramas.

Time on the territory of the Kronotsky Nature Reserve — 2 - 2,5 hours.
Difficulty: public route available to people with full physical capabilities, special sports training is not require.
Important:
& Bull; The tour goes on flatness trails at must be accompanied by an inspector of the reserve and the guide.
& Bull; In May and June introduced restrictions on the operation of the route.

How to get there: organization of tours to the geysers Kronotsky reserve tour operators engaged in the Kamchatka region. On other issues, and for more information please contact Department of Environmental Education at the Kronotsky Nature Reserve +7 (41531) 7 16 52.

«Miracles of Kamchatka» — 3-day walking tour of the Uzon-Geyser area

Two the main thermal area Kronotsky Nature Reserve — Uzon Caldera and Valley geysers — connected trails thread that runs through the picturesque banks of streams and the rivers. You can get acquainted with the tundra plants, many of the which are included in the Red Book, to see butterflies fluttering over amazing colors such as fillodotse and luazeleuriya, kuropatochya grass, burnet and saxifrage. In addition, you will have the opportunity to see the brown bears in the of the natural habitat, and maybe capture gyrfalcons and Steller's sea eagles.

Duration: 3 days.
Difficulty: the route is not categorical, but require specific sports training and basic cruising experience.
Important! Stop on the spending the night possible at River Wilderness (field hospital), on the river Sister (camp) in the Valley of the geysers (the visitor center at the cordon).

«Death Valley» — a one-day guided tour

Death Valley on the full life of the Valley geysers situated only 7 kilometers. But only after it opened 34 years after the discovery of the first geyser Kronotsky Nature Reserve — in 1975.

Silent, but a merciless natural killer — It is a kind of the gas chamber. Toxic fumes are not scare the animals, so the this zone, the the foot of the volcano Kikhpinych year killed dozens of inhabitants of the reserve. The chemical composition of like gas would preserves all organic, so the bodies of animals are preserved for a long time. This natural euthanasia observed and to other parts of the world with the volcanic activity, but the composition of toxic «cocktail» in Kamchatka the disastrous valley is much more difficult than in the typical «Death Valley».

Looking at Death Valley can be only with the the observation deck located on the a safe distance. Before the visitors opened the colorful panorama, and the guide will tell you about history of the discovery and other interesting facts related to the this natural phenomenon.

The duration of the tour — 40 min - 1 hour.
Difficulty: a public route, special sports training is not require.

Important! In May and June introduced restrictions on the operation of the route. Specific dates are specified, each year.

«the kingdom of sockeye and Brown Bear» — a one-day guided tour

Getting to ecosystem Kuril Lake — The travel, gives you the opportunity to see wildlife in dance a the most beautiful and unspoilt corners of the Earth. Kuril Lake is on the territory of South Kamchatka Sanctuary in 220 km from the g. Yelizovo.

This is the largest reservoir of fresh water on the Kamchatka Peninsula, the largest breeding ground of Pacific sockeye salmon. In some years, here comes before the 10 million. This species of salmon. Mass move sockeye — always an impressive sight. The abundance of fish attracts bears. Kuril Lake — a place of concentration of a record number of brown bears, and Steller's sea eagles. On the lake you will meet life clumsy, will watch the of fishing.

Time on the territory of the Kronotsky Nature Reserve — 1,5 - 2,5 hours.
Venue: Tour may be held in cordons grassy area or Ozernoi.
Difficulty: a public route, special sports training is not require.
Important:
& Bull; The tour goes on flatness and nature trails at the must be accompanied by an inspector of the reserve and the guide.
& Bull; For security reasons, visitors (protection bears) area surrounded by two cordons elektrozaborom; go for outside the fenced area in the alone and free prevent the state inspector is strictly prohibited.
& Bull; In May and June introduced restrictions on the operation of the route.
Additional services: If desired, you can use the kitchen and the dining room.

«The visiting Brown Bear» — multi-day excursion program

Kuril lake attracts a lot of pets and raptors. Here you will find white-tailed sea eagles, golden eagles, and the largest eagles in the world — Steller. Salmon feed everyone.
But undoubtedly the most interesting inhabitants of this area is the brown bear. In the reserve, primarily on the banks of the Kurile Lake, the largest concentrated group of animals on the Kamchatka.
In August and September is a unique opportunity to observe the bear fishing in the wild. Brown bears truly genuine fishermen — They deftly without rods and gear, fish for seconds.

For tourists built a special rig, from which comfort and safety can be carried out monitoring of the behavior of animals. In this tour may be interested biologists, zoologists, ornithologists, ichthyologists, video and fotooperatory.

The program duration: 1 day. If you wish to extend your stay on the territory of South Kamchatka Sanctuary need to buy additional sightseeing tours (each for per day).
Venue: The program can be organized on based on a cordon Herbal Ozernoi based cordon.

Possible hiking and boat trips in Kuril Lake:
1. «the kingdom of sockeye and Brown Bear», one-day walking tour on the territory of South Kamchatka Preserve (Lake. Kuril, cordon Herbal or cordon Ozernoi).
2. «Kuthiny baht», one-day walking tour to the pumice deposits on the territory of South Kamchatka Sanctuary (cordon Ozernoi).
3. «Aerial view», climbing on the hill domestic, South Kamchatka Sanctuary (cordon Ozernoi).
4. «Bears to the », North walking tour in the North Bay, South Kamchatka Sanctuary (cordon Ozernoi).
5. «Hakytsina Riddles», walking tour to the pumice deposits on the territory of South Kamchatka Sanctuary (Herbal cordon).
6. «clearing Bear», walk in the tundra in the the grassy area of ??Cape, South Kamchatka Sanctuary (Herbal cordon).
7. «Secrets of the Kurile Lake», a water tour of the waters of the Kurile Lake, South Kamchatka Sanctuary (cordon Herbal or cordon Ozernoi).

Difficulty: public route available to people with full physical abilities, individual walks require a base of fitness.
Important:
& Bull; All radial trips (except water) are on the forest trails at the must be accompanied by an employee of the reserve.
& Bull; In May and June introduced restrictions on the operation of routes of the program.
& Bull; For security reasons, visitors (protection bears) area surrounded by two cordons elektrozaborom; go for outside the fenced area in the alone and free prevent the state inspector is strictly prohibited.