The article opens a series of studies in the history of research and creation of the natural parks in the Volgograd region. Its nature is rich and diverse;it includes unique landscapes and natural complexes typical for the South-East of the Russian plain. Here is a typical (zonal) steppe of the Volga-Don province, and the unique Volga-Akhtuba floodplain,Tsimlyansky Sands and thecretaceous sediments of the ancient seas as the majestic white mountains of the right bank of the Don, and one of the kind, the salt lake Elton.