Ramsar sites in Russia

As of 2006 there are 35 Ramsar sites in Russia of total area 103,237.67 km².

The first sites were registered with the Ramsar Convention in the Soviet era on October 11 1976. These were Kandalaksha Bay Lake Khanka and Volga River delta.

* Area between the Pura River & Mokoritto River Taymyria ~11,250 km²
* Berezovye Islands Gulf of Finland Leningrad Oblast 120 km²
* Brekhovsky Islands in the Yenisei estuary Taymyria ~14,000 km²
* Chany Lake Novosibirsk Oblast 3,648.48 km²
* Gorbita River Delta Taymyria ~750 km²
* Islands in Ob River Estuary Kara Sea Yamalo-Nenetsia 1,280 km²
* Islands in Onega Bay White Sea Karelia 36 km²
* Kama-Bakaldino mires Nizhny Novgorod Oblast 2,265 km²
* Kandalaksha Bay Murmansk Oblast 2,080 km²
* Karaginsky Island Bering Sea Kamchatka Krai 1,935.97 km²
* Khingano-Arkharinskaya Lowland Amur Oblast ~2,000 km²
* Kuban River Delta: Akhtaro-Grivenskaya group of limans Krasnodar Krai 846 km²
* Kuban River Delta: Group of limans between rivers Kuban & Protoka Krasnodar Krai 884 km²
* Kurgalsky Peninsula Leningrad Oblast 650 km²
* Lake Bolon & the mouths of the Selgon River & Simmi Rivers Khabarovsk Krai 538 km²
* Lake Khanka Primorsky Krai 3,100 km²
* Lake Manych-Gudilo Kalmykia & Rostov Oblast 1126 km²
* Lake Udyl & the mouths of the Bichi Bitki & Pilda Rivers Khabarovsk Krai 576 km²
* Lower Dvuobje Khantia-Mansia & Yamalo-Nenetsia 5,400 km²
* Moroshechnaya River Kamchatka Krai 2,190 km²
* Mshinskaya Wetland system Leningrad Oblast 751 km²
* Oka River & Pra River floodplains Ryazan Oblast 1,615.42 km²
* Parapolsky Dol Kamchatka Krai 12,000 km²
* Pskovsko-Chudskaya Lowland Pskov Oblast 936 km²
* Selenga Delta Buryatia 121 km²
* Southern coast of the Gulf of Finland Baltic Sea Leningrad Oblast 64 km²
* Svir River Delta Leningrad Oblast 605 km²
* Tobol-Ishim Forest-steppe Tyumen Oblast 12170 km²
* Torey Lakes Chita Oblast 1,725 km²
* Upper Dvuobje Khantia-Mansia 4,700 km²
*Utkholok Kamchatka Krai 2200 km²
*Veselovskoye Reservoir Rostov Oblast 3,090 km²
*Volga River Delta Astrakhan Oblast 8,000 km²
* Wetlands in the Lower Bagan area Novosibirsk Oblast 268.8 km²
* Zeya-Bureya Plains Amur Oblast 316 km²

ee also

*Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance

External links

* [http://www.ramsar.org/ The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands]
* [http://www.ramsarcommittee.us/ United States National Ramsar Committee]