Black Sea Biosphere Reserve

The Black Sea Biosphere Reserve is a biosphere reserve of Ukraine that is placed at littoral quarter of the northern Black Sea coast masking areas of the Kherson and Mykolaiv Oblasts and inclusive of Gulf of Tendra and Yahorlyk Bay. The reserve is a part of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The keep was first of all mounted on July 14, 1927 as a part of the Trans-Maritime Preserve by the decree No. 172 of the Council of People's Commissars of Ukrainian SSR. In 1933 the hold have become an impartial studies institution. In 1973 to the Black Sea Preserve have been added the Danube floodplains, Kinski islands in Yahorlyk Bay, and the shallow part of the Gulf of Tendra.

Next year the neighboring Yahorlyk reserve changed into annexed as well. In 1981 the Danube floodplains became an independent keep. In 1983 there was mounted the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve that blanketed the Black Sea State Preserve and the Yahorlyk State Ornithological Reserve. In December 1984 the reserve changed into general to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. The territory of the hold is blanketed into the International list of Ramsar Convention.