"Pasvik State Nature Reserve"

Pasvik is the youngest nature reserve in the Murmansk Region and the first nature reserve created in the new Russian state. It was established on July 16, 1992 to preserve and study northern pine forests, vast wetlands of world importance, fauna of waterfowl, as well as to conduct comprehensive monitoring of northern ecosystems.

The territory of the reserve is a narrow strip stretched for 44 km along the state border of Russia and Norway. Pasvik is the only nature reserve in Russia that is completely located in the border zone. The western border of the reserve completely coincides with the state border.

The area is 14,687 hectares: water area - 21%, forests - 52%, swamps - 25%, other lands - 2%.

Pasvik represents the northernmost part of the Green Belt of Fennoscandia, an ecological project for the conservation of old-growth forests along the border of Russia with Finland and Norway. The reserve is located on the border of the northern taiga and forest tundra in the zone of tundra forests.