Global distribution:

Asia: Turkey, N Iran, SW Russia (in the south to the northern Caucasus, east up to the Ural River), N Azerbaijhan, W/E Kazakhstan, Armenia (Sevan Basin), Uzbekstan, Kyrgyzstan (mountain regions; Issyk Kul Basin), Tajikistan, SW Mongolia, NW China (Xinjiang and Nei Mongol)
Europe: NE Romania, S Moldova, S Ukraine, S Russia, E Georgia
Known trend: Not abjective data is available (presumably endangered)
References:

Ananjeva, N.B., Orlov N.L., Khalikov R.G., Darevsky, I.S., Rjabov S.A., Barabanov A.V., 2004. Atlas of Reptiles of Northern Eurasia, "Ivan Fedorov" Print, St. Pererbourg, Russia, 230 pp.

Aslanyan A.V., 2004. An Ecologo-Faunistic Analysis of The Lizards of Armenia. PhD candidate thesys. 172 pp.

Chernov S.A., 1939. [Herpetological Fauna of Armenian SSR and Nakhichevan ASSR] // Zoological Papers, Vol I, (Transactions of Biological Institure, Vol. III). Edition of Armenian Brunch of The USSR Academy of Scienecs, Erevan, 1939, pp. 77-194. (In Russian)
Darevsky I.S., 1957. The Fauna of Reptiles of Armenia and Its Zoogeographical Analysis. PhD Thesis, Yerevan, 468 pp.

Lambert (2002) Herpetological Bulletin (79): 7-13
Roitberg etc. (2000) Faunist. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierk. Dresden 22 (8)
Truweller etc. (1994) Russian Journal of Herpetology 1 (2): 133-142
Engelmann etc. (1993) Lurche Kriechtiere Europas.
Bischoff (1978) Salamandra 14 (4): 178-202