Уссурийская тайга

The Ussuri Taiga

C1 · Advanced · non-fiction · 10 scenes · Premium story

An advanced natural-history reader on the temperate rainforest of the Russian Far East, where lianas and tigers share a latitude with minus thirty. The monsoon and the glacier that never arrived, the Korean pine that feeds everything, a tiger recovered from a few dozen animals, the rarest big cat on earth — and why this forest cannot be grown again at any price.

Read Уссурийская тайга in Russian

Characters

The Korean pine (Кедр корейский) — The keystone species
The Amur tiger (Амурский тигр) — The only tiger that lives in snow
The Amur leopard (Дальневосточный леопард) — The rarest big cat in the world
Dersu Uzala (Дерсу Узала) — Hunter and guide

Vocabulary from this story

тайга — taiga
лес — forest
хребет — range
лиана — liana
крона — crown
ствол — trunk
кедр — Korean pine
орех — nut
шишка — cone
дуб — oak
папоротник — fern
дупло — tree hollow