Humans have never lived on these lands, and the taiga that arose here after the Ice Age has remained untouched for thousands of years. The Lapland Reserve was founded in the western part of the Kola Peninsula in 1930 to protect the population of wild reindeer and the landscape in natural integrity. In 1985, the Lapland Reserve was included in the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves. The reserve is also a scientific base that has been monitoring the impact of atmospheric emissions of harmful industries on nature for decades, in recent years - the Severonickel plant.
Like most of the oldest nature reserves in Russia, Laplandsky arose and rests on the shoulders of dedicated researchers who give it literally their whole lives. We met with Gennady Danilovich Kataev, Ph.D., a theriologist, who has been keeping a record of small mammals in the reserve for half a century, continuing the world's longest time series of the number of these animals. And also talked and walked along the reserved paths with Maria Karimova, deputy. scientific director, and guide Irina Kobzeva. And they interviewed a very unusual director of the reserve - Sergey Vladimirovich Shestakov.

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Presenter, interviewer: Yana Shklyarskaya
Director, cameraman: Dmitry Olshansky
Filming: July 2022
Video content

0:00 Fresh from the phenological route
3:02 Maria's favorite work and why nature reserves are needed
4:56 Dwarf birch - what is it like
5:29 Reindeer: dream and see
7:26 Benefits of the reserve: beauty, fish, old growth forests
11:45 Tasty birch
12:29 Spotted orchis, the watch keeps watch
13:29 Sundew eats alive
14:26 Old bear den
15:39 About Barany Island
16:48 Reserve and Monchegorsk Iron and Steel Works
21:28 Let's go to the mountain, Maria tells: "living" and "empty" zones of the reserve
24:50 Gennady Danilovich: only nature reserves conduct such studies
25:31 Proof of climate warming
26:53 Climbing uphill, Maria tells: all biotopes, fleet-footed colleague
28:44 View of Chunozero
29:10 Reindeer - little-many-little
31:07 How to count mosquitoes
32:40 Mosquito fog
34:40 A unique case in the Murmansk region
35:53 How Gennady Danilovich ended up in the reserve
37:07 The world's longest series of observations
38:15 Miracle Lemming
41:10 Weakness of a predator, or why rats bit a cat
42:58 At the top of Mount Yelnyun-2
43:46 Where deer graze and how they run
46:12 Yagel: what is it like, what is useful in it
47:56 Autumn is the best time in the reserve
48:25 Bear and pine
49:20 Station for recording the yield of berries
49:59 And how is it here in winter
50:42 Seydy
52:09 Tundra in the reserve, how the first employees of the reserve worked
53:18 Flowering: linnaea and others
54:37 How did the Lapland Nature Reserve come about



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