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THE NAURZUM NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE
The Naurzum national nature reserve one of the oldest in Kazakhstan, was founded in 1931. Nowadays its territory makes up to 1,914,000 hectares. Administratively, it belongs to the Naurzum and Auyelikol rayons of the Kostanay oblast.
In 2002 the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan recommended Naurzum National Nature Reserve for the inclusion in the List of Cultural and Natural World Heritage Sites of UNESCO. The territory of the reserve has landscape and biological diversity unique for the Eurasian steppe zone. This is determined by the history of landscape formation and complexity of the surface structure. Nowadays the Naurzum pine forest the southernmost in the flat parts of Kazakhstan. The Naurzum reserve is covered with different in age and content geological sediments, where variegated top – soil and vegetation with high diversity of the fauna has been formed.
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