The list of Russian sites is 2, 6% of the total UNESCO World Heritage Site, numbering at the beginning of 2014 1007 cultural and natural protected sites on the planet. There are 27 such sites in Russia, 16 of them are included in this list according to the criteria of culture, and 11 objects - according to natural aspects. Of the latter, UNESCO recognizes four as exceptional and phenomenal.
Instructions
Step 1
So, since 1990, the historical center of St. Petersburg and all the architectural complexes and monuments located in it, built in the 18th-20th centuries, the architectural ensemble of the Kizhi churchyard near the town of Medvezhyegorsk in Karelia, built in the 18th-19th centuries, and The Moscow Kremlin together with Red Square, and the antiquity of its construction - XIII-XVII centuries - also played an important role.
Step 2
The 27 monuments since 1992 also include all the historical significant sites of Novgorod the Great and its environs, built in the XI-XVII centuries, the Solovetsky Islands ensemble near the Arkhangelsk Kem (XVI-XVII centuries) and the white-stone buildings of Vladimir and Suzdal (XII-XIII century). In 1993 and 1994, the Kolomna Church of the Ascension (16th century) and the ensemble of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra (15th-18th centuries) were also classified as World Heritage Sites.
Step 3
1995 and 1996 "gave" UNESCO the forests of the Komi Republic, the magnificent Lake Baikal and very beautiful volcanoes in Kamchatka. And in 2001, the central ridge of the Sikhote-Alin in the Far East was included in the World Heritage List, in 1998 - the Altai Mountains, in 2003 - the Ubsunur Basin in the Tyva Republic and the Western Caucasus Mountains in 1999.
Step 4
In 2000, the list was replenished with such important objects for Russia as the historical and architectural complex "Kazan Kremlin" in the Republic of Tatarstan, built in the 16th-21st centuries, and the ensemble of the Ferapontov monastery in the Vologda region (built in the 15th-17th centuries). 2003 gave a new status to the Curonian Spit in the Kaliningrad region and the ancient buildings of Derbent, which, moreover, is the most ancient city in modern Russia.
Step 5
2004 "gave" to the UNESCO list the ensemble of the Novodevichy Convent (built in the 16th-17th centuries) and Wrangel Island in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, and 2005 - the historical center of Yaroslavl (16th-20th centuries) and the Struve Geodetic Arc in the Leningrad Region. The latter is protected not only by Russia, but is also recognized as very important for several other states - Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine.
Step 6
In 2010, the Putorana plateau in the Krasnoyarsk Territory entered the World Heritage Site, in 2012 - the Lena Pillars in the Republic of Sakha and in 2013 Ancient Chersonesos, then still part of the Ukrainian territory of Ukraine (approximately the V century AD - XIV century). And the most recent in the UNESCO list was the ancient city of Bulgar in Tatarstan, which is the religious center of Russian Muslims and was built in the X-XV centuries.
