This chapter reviews research of protected natural territories in the Russian North. Protected territories and nature conservation have been addressed in anthropological publications, but often as aspects of other research and rarely as a central topic. I argue that little interest in protected natural areas in Siberia and the North of Russia in 20th and early 21st centuries can be attributed, among other factors, to the success of Soviet authorities following a global tendency in removing indigenous people and histories from such areas, following a global model of fortress conservation. I also describe several areas of anthropological and ethnographic research in Siberia, that have engaged with questions relevant to protected natural territories even though as a peripheral topic. At present, the increased industrial appropriation of and competition over resources in the Arctic is transforming the existing configuration of relations, both through deepened tensions and new alliances between local people and environmentalists. I introduce selected topics that are central in global scholarship on protected natural territories and have strong relevance to the field of Siberia. Pursuing those topics further anthropologists of the region can make the field more visible in broader anthropological scholarship and theory building.