Pechoro-Ilych Nature Reserve

Pechoro-Ilych Nature Reserve, natural area, set aside for research in the natural sciences, in the low-lying western foothills of the Northern Ural Mountains, near the confluence of the Ilych and Pechora rivers, in northwestern Russia. The reserve was established in 1930, mainly to protect the habitat of the sable and salmon spawning grounds. Covering an area of 1,782,370 acres (721,300 hectares), it lies on a vast plain of sand and morainic loam and is traversed...