Year: 2018, Number: 3, Pages: 82-96
Ussuri Nature Reserve was founded in 1934 and now has an area of 40432 hectares. The reserve is located in the South of Primorye Territory and extends into the upper part of the basins of the rivers Komarivka (Spatenka) – the left tributary of the river Razdolnaya and Artemovka, a tributary of the Ussuri Bay of the Sea of Japan. The relief in the protected area is low-mountain, formed by spurs of the ridge Przewalski southern Sikhote-Alin. In general, the soil cover of the Ussuri reserve is represented by soils typical for the South of Primorye Territory. The territory of the reserve is included in the area of influence of the Far Eastern monsoons. The average annual (1973–2016) air temperature is 3.9° C. The duration of the frost-free period now reaches 200 days. The Ussuri Nature Reserve is located in the Ussuri floristic region, i.e. in the southern subzone of mixed coniferous-deciduous forests. There are two high-altitude vegetation zones are clearly distinguished in the reserve: coniferous-deciduous forests and fir-spruce forests with immoral elements. The basis of the species composition of the vegetation cover of the reserve is elements of Manchurian flora. The list of vascular plants of the reserve consists of 890 species, 435 genera and 109 families.