Bastak Reserve, located in the south of the Russian Far East and northeast of the Jewish Autonomous Region - State Nature Reserve is one of the natural attractions of the region.

Reserve was founded in 1997 for the preservation and restoration of typical and unique natural complexes, which are located on the reserve, environmental monitoring, the protection of forests, organizing and conducting environmental education of the local population, the development of new methods for the protection of nature.

The main feature of the reserve is that it is located near abroad, separating natural complexes with the dominance of the northern polar fauna and flora in one part and the southern subtropical another. Today the area of ​​the reserve consists of two plots with a total area of ​​more than 127 thousand hectares. In 2002 - 2003,. along the borders of the reserve set up a special protection zone of about 15 thousand hectares within the EAO and about 11 thousand hectares in the Khabarovsk Territory.

On the high slopes in the northern part of the common border with spruce fir. In the western and southern parts of the reserve there are birch, oak forests, linden and larch. On the flat part is mainly dominated by sedge-reed grass meadows interspersed moss bogs. Middle belt of mountains presented cedar-broadleaf forests, which are mainly represented by the animal and plant biodiversity of the reserve.

Within the reserve there are representatives of flora and fauna listed in the Red Data Books of the Jewish Autonomous Region and Russia. For example, Amur adonis, Korean pine, Actinidia Kolomikta, Cypripedium Macranthos, campion sparkling and so on.

In addition, the reserve has a huge variety of common species of mammals, among them - deer, squirrel, shrew, and other columns. Often there are Himalayan and brown bears, wild boar, red deer and sable. In different parts of the reserve are home to rare species of birds such as the golden eagle, osprey, black crane, mandarin duck, crested honey buzzard. The pride of the reserve "Bastak" is the population of the Far Eastern stork.