0966 RUSSIA (Krasnoyarsk Krai) - Putorana Plateau (UNESCO WHS)

The Putorana Plateau is a high-lying basalt plateau, a mountainous area at the northwestern edge of the Central Siberian Plateau, to the south from Taymyr Peninsula. It is composed of Siberian Traps, which form a large region of volcanic rock, and the highest mountain in the range is Mount Kamen (1,700m). To protect the world's largest herd of reindeer as well as snow sheep, in 1988 was established the Putorana Nature Reserve (situated about 100 km north of the Arctic Circle), which was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2010, as "a complete set of subarctic and arctic ecosystems in an isolated mountain range, including pristine taiga, forest tundra, tundra and arctic desert systems, as well as untouched cold-water lake and river systems".

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