Year: 2018, Number: 3, Pages: 65-81
The Gerbikanskiy reserve was created in 1995 in the territory of the Amur Region and covers an area of 86600 hectares. The relief of the reserve is mountainous. The spurs of the Turan range emerge on the territory of the reserve. Here stand out hillocks, low mountains and mid-mountains. The climate is continental with monsoon features. Rzhavozomes and burozomes make up the soil of the reserve. Large areas are occupied by bog soils. Vegetation has a marsh-mountain-taiga character with a predominance of zonal larch forests and azonal wetland vegetation. Fir-spruce forests are confined to floodplains, decaying and mountain slopes. In floristic respect the territory of the reserve has been little studied, there are no herbarium collections. The fauna is represented by the East Siberian faunal complex, into which species related to the Manchu and steppe fauna infiltrate from the south. From the east, representatives of the Okhotsk fauna of the dark coniferous taiga penetrate. One of the goals of the reserve establishment was to preserve unique summer habitats of Elk in the swampy valley of the Gerbikan River. Particularly protected, especially valuable and particularly vulnerable species are the Black Crane (Grus monacha Temminck, 1835) and Siberian Grouse (Falcipennis falcipennis Hartlaub, 1855).