Provallia Steppe Nature Reserve
The Provallia Steppe Nature Reserve is a protected nature reserve of Ukraine that covers two tracts of representative steppe on the eastern Ukrainian border with Russia. As of 2014, the reserve was no longer under the control of the Ukrainian government. The reserve is in the administrative district of Sverdlovsk Raion in Luhansk Oblast
Topography
The reserve is organized in two separate tracts:Kalinivska. Laced with shallow streams, and rocky sections. Hrushevskaya. Centered on the Hrushevska Gorge, and a large pond.The reserve is immediately on the eastern border of Ukraine with Russia. Geologically, it is on the northern edge of the Donetsk folded country, characterized by sandstone, limestone, and sandy shales of the Carboniferous Period. The terrain is ridge-hollow, with elevations 150-230 meters above sea level.
Climate and ecoregion
The climate of the Provallia Steppe reserve is Humid continental climate, warm summer. This climate is characterized by large seasonal temperature differentials and a warm summer (at least four months averaging over, but no month averaging over.The reserve is located in the Pontic–Caspian steppe ecoregion, a region that covers an expanse of grasslands stretching from the northern shores of the Black Sea to western Kazakhstan.