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Virgin Komi Forests
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Virgin Komi Forests appears in Vinony's UNESCO World Heritage collection — one of 3,384 entries.
Vinony's link graph records 134 inbound references to Virgin Komi Forests, and connects out to World Heritage Site, Russia and Europe.
The entry is geolocated on the map in forest.
It is catalogued under topics including Forests of Russia, Geography of the Komi Republic and Old-growth forests.
Key facts
- Location
- Ural Mountains , Komi Republic , Russia
- Includes
- Yugyd Va (Clear Water) National Park Pechoro-Ilychskiy Nature Reserve Yaksha Forest District
- Criteria
- Natural: (vii), (ix)
- Inscription
- 1995 (19th Session )
- Area
- 2,645,800 ha (10,215 sq mi)
- Buffer zone
- 650,000 ha (2,500 sq mi)
- Website
- http://www.vfk.komi.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- World Heritage Site
- Country
- Russia
- Located in
- Komi Republic
- Area
- 3280000
- Location
- Ural Mountains
- Official website
- www.vfk.komi.com
- Image
- Four herous01.JPG
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- Commons category
- Komi Virgin Forests
- heritage designation
- Tentative World Heritage Site
- inception
- 1995-00-00
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview
The Virgin Komi Forests (Komi: Комилӧн вӧрзьӧдлытӧм вӧръяс, Russian: Девственные леса Коми) is a natural UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Northern Ural Mountains of the Komi Republic, Russia. At 32,800 km it is the largest virgin forest in Europe.
Geography and ecology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Virgin Komi Forests” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.