Environmental and Economic Substantiation project has been prepared for organization of Shaitan-Tau State Nature Reserve within Kuvandyk District of the Orenburg Oblast. The protected area is characterized by high landscape and biological diversity and ensures stable environmental development of the entire South Ural Region.

The project contains information about the structure of land resources, about the boundaries and zone of the reserve area, about internal economic organization, key activities, objects for protection, etc. The reserve boundaries, urgency, practicability and consequences of its establishment were substantiated.

Environmental and Economic Substantiation provides foundation for submitting an application by the Ministry of Natural Resources to the Russian Government for the establishment of the Federal State Institution ‘Shaitan-Tau State Nature Reserve’.

The main part of the reserve is situated on the right bank of the Sakmara River including forest sections with a total area of 7004 ha (5 621 ha and 1 383 ha, Churaevo and Kuvandyk forestry, respectively). The second cluster of the reserve (a compact group of the forest patches) is situated on the left bank of the Sakmara River with a total area of 741 ha.