Produced by the CIS Regional Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, this publication provides a concise evaluation of the region's herpetological status. It consists of a series of papers arranged under regional chapters covering: Belarus; Ukraine; European Russia; Ural, Siberia and the Far East; Caucasus; and Kazakhstan. Each chapter is in English with a Russian summary. For each region, species survival problems, species declines, threatened species and distributional data are discussed.