National Park Ugyd Va is situated in the Komi Republic. The Park was founded in 1994.
Its area makes up 1891.7 thousand ha. It is located on the western side of the Pripolyarny
and Severny Urals in the basins of the right tributaries of the river Pechora, the river
Podcherema and river Bolshaya Synya.
Absolute heights in the near-polar part reach 1300 m above the sea level (Karpinskogo
mountain), in the northern — 1619 m (Telpoz-iz mountain) with lower peaks between them
ranging from 1700 m and 700 m.
Several types of environment are present in the mountains, where the high-mountain
alpine relief is characteristic for Pripolyarny Urals. Rivers have great current speed,
and deep waters. In the high mountains to the north there are more than 30 small glaciers,
the greatest of them located on the Sabyla mountain ridge. The relief comprises the range
of height zones from near-mountain to high-mountain. Forests on the lowland part of the
Park are formed of spruce and white birch.
Higher than 250 m above sea level they change to mountain dark coniferous taiga with
fir (on the northern Urals) and cedar. Along the edge of the Park’s territory runs the
western border of the Siberian cedar’s area. The most significant plantations of cedar
are situated in the Nyartsyuyu basin. The upper border of forests in the Polar Urals is
formed of larch open woods (300-400 m above sea level), and in the northern Urals of
birch, fir and spruce open woods, and thickets of elfin fir (500-600 m). Another belt is
occupied by bushy, lichen and moss-lichen tundras. Near snowlands one might come across
sites with high-mountain meadow plants.
30 mammal species are indigenous, and 190 bird species. Elk, sable, marten, common
weasel, skunk bear, brown bear, and wolf live in the Park permanently, and, in the
mountain tundra, so do wild reindeer. 17 waterfowl's species nest; of rare predatory birds
there are to be seen the golden eagle, white-tailed eagle, and the fish hawk. In the upper
reaches of the Park's rivers more than half of the Pechora's salmon reproduce.
The Park belongs to the World Natural Heritage Site "Virgin Forests of Komi".
