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Forestry activity in Khimki Forest near Moscow. Forestry in Russia is a set of industries related to wood harvesting and processing.It is one of the oldest sectors in the country's economy, Russia's timber industry is valued at $20 billion per year, and as at 2022, is the second largest producer of industrial roundwood. [1]
Agriculture in Russia is an important part of the economy of the Russian Federation. The agricultural sector survived a severe transition decline in the early 1990s as it struggled to transform from a command economy to a market-oriented system . [ 1 ]
Russia (Russian: Россия) is the largest country in the world, covering over 17,125,191 km 2 (6,612,073 sq mi), and encompassing more than one-eighth of Earth's inhabited land area. Russia extends across eleven time zones , and has the most borders of any country in the world, with sixteen sovereign nations .
As of 2021 49.4% of Russia is covered in trees.[2] Map of the federal subjects of Russia - degree of afforestation Temperate rainforest in Pozharsky District , Primorye Taiga in Tashtagolsky District , Kemerovo Oblast Birch forest in Arzamas , Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Semi-desert in Narimanovsky District , Astrakhan Oblast Steppe in Tselinny ...
The wildlife of Russia inhabits terrain that extends across 12 time zones and from the tundra region in the far north to the Caucasus Mountains and prairies in the south, including temperate forests which cover 70% of the country. Russia's forests comprise 22% of the forest in the world [1] as well as 33% of all temperate forest. [2]
Crimean Submediterranean forest complex (Russia, Ukraine) East European forest steppe (Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine) Manchurian mixed forests (China, Russia, North Korea, South Korea) Sarmatic mixed forests (Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Russia, Sweden) South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests
The temperate rainforests of the Russian Far East are within the Russian federal subjects Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk Krai and contains the Sikhote-Alin mountain range. Found within the Russian Federation , this area is one of the most productive and diverse forests in the world and also contains one of the highest endangered species ...
The area contains a biosphere nature reserve called Central Black Earth Nature Reserve (42 km 2 (16 sq mi)), which was created in 1935 within the Kursk and Belgorod oblasts. A prime specimen of forest steppe in Europe, the nature reserve consists of typical virgin land (целина, celina ) steppes and deciduous forests.