page_title: Kostomuksha Nature Reserve
section_title: Climate and Ecoregion
hierarchical_section_title: Kostomuksha Nature Reserve / Climate and Ecoregion
caption_attribution_description: English: Kostomuksha Nature Reserve. 2014. Русский: Костомукшский заповедник. 2014 г.
context_page_description: Kostomuksha Nature Reserve is a Russian 'zapovednik' of forests, lakes, rivers and wetlands on the border of Russian and Finland. It was created in 1983, along with other protected areas, in part to mitigate the impact of the Karelskiy Okatysh mine outside of the town of Kostomuksha, one of the largest iron ore reserves in Russia, and also to protect the forest from increase commercial logging in the area. A further scientific purpose is the protection of forest reindeer and a type of landlocked salmon. The reserve is part of a transboundary reserve complex with reserves in Finland to the west, and is situated in the Kalevalsky District and Muyezersky District of the Republic of Karelia, about 500 km north of St. Petersburg and 500 km west of Arkhangelsk. The reserve was created in 1993, and covers an area of 47,569 ha.
context_section_description: Kostamuksha is located in the Scandinavian and Russian taiga ecoregion.  Steppe with long ""ribbon forests"" of pine; about 300–500 miles more northerly than the European Russian forest. This ecoregion has more wetlands and more continental climate than the European forest steppe.
  The climate of Kostamuksha is Humid continental climate, cool summer (Köppen climate classification (Dfc)). This climate is characterised by long cold winters, and short, cool summers.  Kostomuksha is frost-free for an average 183 days per year.
caption: Kostomuksha Nature Reserve, 2014, photo by Igor Georgievskiy
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