Khibiny National Park (Russian: Национальный парк «Хибины») protects a mountainous region of taiga and tundra on the Khibiny Mountains and Lovozero Massif of the western Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia.
[2] The mountains contain commercially important minerals, and the park's borders reflect the need to balance three uses - protection of the unique natural environment, recreation (hiking in the summer, skiing in the winter), and industrial mining.
The park was officially created in 2018,[3] and is located in the districts of Kirovsk and Olenegorsk in Murmansk Oblast.
[4] [5] Surrounded by low plains, the varied terrain of the mountains supports high biodiversity.
[4] The park is at the northern edge of the Scandinavian and Russian taiga ecoregion, only a few kilometers south of the official transition to the Kola Peninsula tundra ecoregion.