Kronotsky Nature Reserve Kronotsky Nature Reserve Kronotsky (Кроноцкий) Nature Reserve (also: "Kronotsky Biosphere Zapovednik") is a nature area reserved for the study of natural sciences in the remote Russian Far East, on the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. It was created in 1934 and its current boundary contains an area of . The largest lake in the reserve is Lake Kronotskoye, which covers an area of . It also has Russia's only geyser basin, plus several mountain ranges with numerous volcanoes, both active and extinct. Due to its often harsh climate and its mix of volcanoes and geysers, it is frequently described as
Monvert Nature Park River Gorges National Park. The nature park has two main sections, the smaller visitors interpretation centre, and the nature walk over the larger natural area. The Visitors Centre, just off the A10, contains a display of the biodiversity, forests and invasive species of the country, as a basic overview. Behind the centre is the arboretum, where over 150 labelled endemic and indigenous species are grown on grassy slopes intersected with paths. Many are critically endangered or extinct in the wild. At the bottom of the arboretum is the fernery, where many of the island's critically endangered endemic ferns and orchids