National parks in Russia, the phenomenon is still quite young. The story of the creation of national parks has a little less than 30 years. The main idea of creating Park areas was not only the preservation of nature and historical monuments, but also the development of ecological tourism, the development of respect for nature in people.In such a short time was founded 35 parks in various parts of the country with various natural conditions. The first national Park of Russia is considered to be elk island, which was founded in 1983 near Moscow. And the most famous national parks of Russia - Shushensky Bor and Sochi Park. National parks of Russia can be divided into two types: parks with preserved wild virgin nature, unique relief, and rare species of animals and plants and parks, which was once used by man, but they kept a lot of sights and natural monuments.Currently, after decades of uncertainty, our government takes very seriously the protection of the environment and creates new nature reserves and national parks, thereby increasing the influx of tourists.