DONBASS
On the territories of Donbass, two nature reserves have been created, branches of which are scattered in different areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. The oldest reserve is the Streletskaya Steppe (Melovsky District) founded back in 1931 - a small area (the current area is 5.22 km²) of the once wide Starobelsk steppes on the spurs of the Central Russian Upland, where they are engaged in preserving the largest colony of European bobak in Ukraine ... Now it is one of three sections of the Lugansk nature reserve, created in 1968. Its other branches - Stanichno-Luganskaya (or Pridonetskaya floodplain), located in the area of the same name on an area of 4.98 km², is engaged in the preservation of the floodplain ecosystems of the left-bank part of the Seversky Donets and Proval'skaya steppe, formed in the Sverdlovsk region in 1975 on an area of 5.87 km² in the most elevated part of the Donetsk ridge. Cretaceous flora (founded in 1988 in Limansky district on an area of 11.34 km²), where plants that grow on chalk rocks are preserved.
On the territories of Donbass, two nature reserves have been created, branches of which are scattered in different areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. The oldest reserve is the Streletskaya Steppe (Melovsky District) founded back in 1931 - a small area (the current area is 5.22 km²) of the once wide Starobelsk steppes on the spurs of the Central Russian Upland, where they are engaged in preserving the largest colony of European bobak in Ukraine ... Now it is one of three sections of the Lugansk nature reserve, created in 1968. Its other branches - Stanichno-Luganskaya (or Pridonetskaya floodplain), located in the area of the same name on an area of 4.98 km², is engaged in the preservation of the floodplain ecosystems of the left-bank part of the Seversky Donets and Proval'skaya steppe, formed in the Sverdlovsk region in 1975 on an area of 5.87 km² in the most elevated part of the Donetsk ridge. Cretaceous flora (founded in 1988 in Limansky district on an area of 11.34 km²), where plants that grow on chalk rocks are preserved.
