Regional Decree No. 233-P validating the Regulation on nature monument of regional significance "Lake Sokoch".

Nature monument of regional significance Lake Sokoch is a national patrimony. The objectives of the creation of the nature monument of regional significance Lake Sokoch are: (a) preservation in the natural state of the unique, irreplaceable, valuable in ecological, scientific, recreational, cultural and aesthetic relations of the natural complex, represented by two small glacial lakes of moraine-dammed type - lakes Big Sokoch and Small Sokoch; (b) protection of rare species of animals, plants and fungi listed in Red Book of the Kamchatka Territory and the Red Book of the Russian Federation, preservation of their habitat, primarily the endemic form of char Ram Salvelinus taranetzi; (c) protection of spawning grounds, ensuring the restoration of numbers and reproduction of natural populations of Pacific salmon; (d) conducting scientific research; (e) state environmental monitoring (state environmental monitoring); (f) development of regulated ecological and educational tourism; and (g) environmental education of the population.

Russian Federation · 2022-05-04