Protected areas of Russia

Protected areas of Russia, (official Russian title: Особо охраняемые природные территории, literally "Specially Protected Natural Areas"), is governed by the corresponding 1995 law of the Russian Federation.

Categories
The law establishes the following categories of protected areas:
 * 1) State nature zapovedniks, including Biosphere reserves (biosphere zapovedniks)
 * 2) National Parks
 * 3) Nature parks
 * 4) State nature zakazniks
 * 5) Natural Monuments
 * 6) Dendrological parks and botanical gardens
 * 7) Health recuperation areas and  health resorts

Other areas
Other areas that are protected in Russia include:
 * UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
 * city and regional parks.
 * Ramsar sites — wetlands of international significance.
 * Russian Cultural heritage monuments.
 * Historic buildings and gardens — e.g.: Imperial Russian palaces and their landscape parks.

Total Land Area
On May 21, 2019, the Moscow Times cited a World Wildlife Fund report indicating that Russia now ranks first in the world for its amount of protected natural areas with 63.3 million hectares of specially protected natural areas. However, the article did not contain a link to WWF's report and it may be based on previously gathered data.