page_title: Ilmen Nature Reserve
section_title: Topography
hierarchical_section_title: Ilmen Nature Reserve / Topography
caption_attribution_description: English: Harvard Museum of Natural History. Ilmenite. Arendal, Aust-Agder, Norway.
context_page_description: Ilmen Nature Reserve is a Russian 'zapovednik' that was created by decree of Vladimir Lenin, in 1920 as a mineralogical nature reserve. It is the site of deposits of many rare-earth minerals - 16 minerals were first discovered here, including Ilmenite, Monazite, Cancrinite, and Samarskite-. There have been over 400 mines in the area over the years. The Reserve's geological museum is one of the largest in Russia. The forest cover is pine and larch forest on low hills of the Ilmensky Mountains and foothill ridges on east side of the south Ural Mountains. The reserve is situated just north and east of the city of Miass, in the Chebarkulsky District of Chelyabinsk Oblast. It is also 20 kkm east of Taganay National Park and 75 km west of Chelyabinsk.
context_section_description: The Ilmensky Reserve is located on the east slope of the southern Urals, where the terrain flattens from low mountains (400 meters altitude) to a district of lakes and rolling hills.  The reserve is rectangular in shape, 70 km from north to south, and 10 km from west to east.  The Miass River runs north-south along the west border of the reserve.  The highest point, Ilmen Tau, is 750 meters above sea level.
  The geology is a complex assortment of igneous and metamorphic rock.  The granitic formations contain many pegmatite veins with associated minerals.  The reserve has recorded 278 species of minerals, and 70 kinds of rock.
caption: Ilmenite, the most important Titanium ore, was first discovered on the site of the Ilmen Reserve
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