Reserves of the Moscow region are small areas of untouched nature with many plants and animals. They are especially significant territories protected by the state. The beauty and diversity of natural resources are admired by thousands of people. In such places, you can hide from the bustle of the metropolis and study the specific features of the local flora and fauna.

There are several territories under state protection in the Moscow region, including 161 wildlife sanctuaries and 81 natural monument. There are also nature reserves and natural parks. Rest in such areas will help restore physical and mental strength.

Let us dwell in more detail on each of these places and consider the main reserves of the Moscow region.

"Moose Island"

This is a region in the north-east of Moscow lands. It stretches from the Sokolniki park area and stretches to Korolev, Shchelkovo, Balashikha in the form of a kind of corner between two highways. The reserve includes six forest parks.

Earth national park occupy 12 thousand hectares. There are also conifers, and birch forests, and marshy meadows, and swampy areas. Two rivers flow through these lands - Yauza and Pekhorka.

Moose can be found in the reserve. This is the largest mammal in the Moscow region. Total in nature park live:

• 44 different types of mammals;
• 170 varieties of birds;
• 9 types of amphibians;
• 5 types of reptiles;
• 19 varieties of fish.

80% of the park's land is forests. 800 plant species grow here, including those included in the Red Book.

Prioksko-Terrasny Reserve

Another site belonging to the state reserves of the Moscow region. The reserve is located on the left bank of the Oka, near the Serpukhov lands.

There are 1000 species found here rare plants and lots of pine trees. Moreover, there are areas with both northern vegetation and southern steppe.

This is one of the smallest reserves in Moscow and the Moscow region, it occupies only 5 thousand hectares. 142 species of birds and 57 species of mammals live here. The pride of the park is the bison, which recent times was on the verge of extinction.

Zavidovsky Reserve

This park occupies Moscow and Tver lands. UNESCO has rated the park as one of the cleanest places in the world. The territory was formed in 1972. The total size of land is 126 thousand hectares.

The territory belonging to the type of reserves and parks of the Moscow region is famous beautiful nature, the wealth of the animal and flora. Various types of forests grow here, excellent meadows stretch, aquatic plant species are found.

The fauna of the park includes 40 species of mammals. You can meet a hare, a fox, a roe deer, a deer, a wild boar, a raccoon dog. Partridge, black grouse, capercaillie are common among birds.

Breams, breams, burbots, pikes live in the reservoirs of this area; carp and silver carp are also bred.

"Crane Homeland"

The writer Mikhail Prishvin gave the name to the lands. They are located in the northeast of the Moscow region. This is a large swampy lowland with a scale of more than 300 square meters.

Not too long ago, the territory was assigned to the reserves of the Moscow region. The size of the territories protected by the authorities is more than 36 thousand hectares. Rare species of animals live here and unique plantings grow. Cranes fly here, and the complex is an ornithological territory. It is no coincidence that the Crane Festival is held here every year. The Crane Museum also operates, where you can get acquainted with the history of this natural area and learn many interesting facts about the life of cranes.

By 2020, it is planned to create a Natural Park here.

Cherustinsky forest

This is a forest area in the east of the Moscow region, which is part of the famous Meshchera - a forest-marshy region. Oak forests are replaced by swampy pine, black alder and many other types of forests. The scale of forests is 21.7 thousand hectares.

The rarest species of animals live here, single plants grow, including those included in the Red Book.

This territory, considered one of the reserves of the Moscow region, was created to protect the ecological system and rare representatives of the animal and plant world. The authorities guard the Cherustinsky forest.

What is forbidden to do?

These are the main reserves of the Moscow region, the names and descriptions of which we have reviewed. It is interesting to know what restrictions are imposed on citizens during their stay on such lands.

Any human activity that is contrary to the goals of creating the territory is not allowed in the reserves.

Any kind of hunting and other types of wildlife use are not allowed. Sometimes amateur fishing is allowed without the right to sell. Citizens who do not work in the reserve are allowed to be in the reserve only with special documents.

Other protected areas

We examined the main reserves of the Moscow region, the list of names of which is presented in the article. But there are also reserves. They differ in that some species of plants and animals are protected on their territory, and not the complex as a whole.

Among the reserves are the following:

• Teryaevskiye Prudy is a nature reserve in the Volokolamsk region, which is home to rare animals and birds. Here is the Joseph-Volotsky Monastery, which is a monument of architecture.
• Kuzminsky complex reserve - also located in the Volokolamsky district, occupies more than 4 thousand hectares. It was created with the aim of preserving nature in its natural state, as well as protecting unique varieties of plants, fungi, and animals.
• pine forests on the sand dunes- This is an area in the Voskresensky district of the Moscow region with an area of ​​​​738 hectares. It is a territory of outwash landscape with sand dunes. Rare plant species are protected. There is a colony of gray herons.
• The raised swamp Ramenskoye is a nature reserve in the Dmitrovsky district of the Moscow region with an area of ​​578 hectares. Created to preserve endangered flora and fauna.
• The high quality pine forests of the Rogachev forestry are a reserve in the Dmitrovsky district, which protects rare forest areas, as well as plants, lichens and animals.
• The Klinsky reserve is spruce forests in the Klinsky district, in which there is a large colony of gray herons.

In sanctuaries, unlike nature reserves, temporary bans are introduced on the use of natural resources. As a rule, each reserve is created to preserve a single species of plants or animals. Most often, they prohibit actions that destroy the integrity of the ecosystem. To ensure integrity, specific activities are not allowed in the reserves. Entry Vehicle also not allowed without special permission from the authorities.

Violations of any established rules will result in a fine. For entry into protected areas, the car owner may be deprived of the car.

After a trip to Yaropolets, where a number of cars with Roadside Picnic stickers caught our attention, we wondered what it was. I already had some information from the forum site geocaching.su. After my wife bombarded me with questions, it was decided to get acquainted with the format of the competition in more detail, and when I remembered this it happened, the registration procedure for the next stage was just beginning on the orientirov.net website, which was supposed to take place in Voskresensky, Orekhovo - Zuevsky and Egorevsky districts. The application was sent immediately and the expectation of the action itself began. It was very curious what was there and how ...
And then came November 14th. Rise at 5.45, quick packing and forced march to Naro-Fominsk for our back-navigator Nastya. We met and moved to the accompaniment of rain and good music in the direction of Voskresensk along my favorite concrete road. We reached without much adventure base camp Chemist, although I successfully slipped through the entrance and had to turn around. There were a lot of cars in the camp, although I understood what a lot was closer to the start, when there were a lot of them.
A small search for a place of registration and then waiting for a briefing and start in a rather cold canteen, but before that it was necessary to bring the car in line with the format of the competition, namely, stick the numbers issued.

And now all organizational issues are settled and we go to the starting point, where the organizers give us a map of the competition area, with the indicated checkpoints, carnet, layout of the checkpoint and short description some CPs. While we were waiting for the start, we managed to get acquainted with the map and calculate approximate route.

And so the start was given and at 10:25 we turned around and moved towards the first point, located in Zolotovo, some stupidity of the navigator led to the fact that we drove up to the abandoned hospital from the other side, immediately saw the checkpoint applied to the pole, but it seemed not faithful to us, after all, it didn’t fit very well according to the scheme (it turned out that way in fact), going a little deeper we found the necessary CP and now the first photo is ready, but most importantly, a dose of positive was received, that the point was found so successfully and quickly:

I score the next point in the PDA and we move on, stopping along the way to take another photo. This is Nastya, she spotted the gates of the former factory we needed.

Hooray, two CPs have already taken an excellent start, but then the PDA and our impression let us down. The road led directly to the gates of the restored monastery, which is located in Faustovo, and only after about thirty minutes it dawns on me that we have arrived in the wrong place and that we need to go exactly to the place where the checkpoint is indicated on the map. This was our first mistake. It was also embarrassing that other participants in the competition came for us. Although the place near the skete is very, very impressive.

We get into the car and we are already driving exactly where we tried to get for the first time, and along the way I turn off the ability of the PDA to lay a route through dirt roads. It's better to drive on asphalt. We drive to the right place and it is, the next checkpoint is taken and great view to the Solovetsky Skete.

Then we go to the distant KP01, through the villages and villages we get to it and start running through the ruins of the former estate, until Olya points out the direction we need, and that's it.

The trees grow in a row and just where the CP is indicated on the diagram and the prism flaunts. We take a photo in front of other participants who stood aside and because of the grass did not see the desired picture.

Wow, let's move on. I put on the map points that do not exist and notice that in Vinogradovo we need a destroyed church and a photo of the altar. We find the right church, and then a stupor ... because. we don’t know what the altar part is, but a kind grandmother helps, who tells everything in detail. We take pictures and move on...

This time we are waiting for KP17, at the site of the possible location of the ancient Nikolo-Nersky Monastery. We drive up to the point, and there they are just taking a photo, so we didn’t even have to look for a prism, but just take a picture with it.

And again on the road, to the village. Tsyurupy. There we needed an old palace of culture, which is now in a very sad state. Local guys quickly realized where all the most interesting things were in their village and had fun as best they could. And we took another photo and went to look for the next photo, three kilometers from Tsyurupa, located with. Levychino, where the object we need is located.

The spread of the local population clearly brought us to the right point. Language will bring to Kyiv - a very accurate saying. As it turned out, we needed a gazebo on the territory of the local church.

Further on our way was the reserve "Pine forests on sand dunes", formed in the 80s of the last century. The most beautiful pine forest, with a magical smell and, unfortunately, quite dirty. In the same place, we first met the NTV + film crew, who were preparing a story about this game.

After KP04, we set off to look for the year the extension was formed in the village of Mishino (I didn’t mix up the name), the KPK brought us to exactly the right place:

There are still many checkpoints ahead, and time is running out. We go further, look for the alarm pole, which, I confess, disappointed me. I expected to see something massive and large, but it turned out to be this:

The next KP27, one of the most beautiful places. Red brick monastery, not far from Kurovskoye.

All the most distant points have been passed and you can move to take the remaining CPs. KP20 - we again lost a lot of time on it, we could not orient ourselves in any way. My head was already thinking with difficulty, it began to lean tiredly. Only after about twenty minutes did they figure out where to move and almost immediately a prism was found.

Not far from KP31, there was KP30 with a tricky task in the carnet, but again, I didn’t immediately realize what it was about. There it was indicated about the metal number, but for some reason I thought about the metal prism. The number on the pole was perfectly visible, and the prism was clearly visible, which seemed to be a snag.

Further errors went one after another, tiredness began to affect. Now I understand that we should not have called in Yegoryevsk, but we had to turn around and move to the village of Baranovskoye, but experience is the son of hard mistakes. We stopped in Yegorievsk and noted for ourselves that it is very nice and cozy town with amazing gothic building, which now houses a branch of the STANKIN Institute.
On the way to the Lopatinsky phosphorite quarry, we took a picture with another object we needed. Interesting name Phosphoritny village:

Not far from the Lopatinsky quarry there was a huge repository of phosphorogypsum, and there was also a checkpoint, which again we could not find for a long time and lost precious time:

And then we decided to stop at one more checkpoint before the finish line, which was our last mistake, not only did we go there on a rather bad road, we also looked for it for a long time, and then we turned the wrong way, deciding to save time, we just lost. Because the puddles on the short path were very large and we did not dare to climb into them.

We arrived at the finish line late by 17 minutes and received a 10-point penalty for this. The result of our trip turned out to be 20, taken by the CP out of 24 possible, a lot of positive and experience.
We would like to know the result now, but we firmly decided for ourselves that we will continue to participate in these competitions and are gearing up for victory in the next stage of the Tourism classification. And I want to say a huge thank you to the organizers for an interesting pastime.

When we turned onto the forest road from the asphalt, we thought that the seagulls that we were given to drink half an hour ago in Rakov were some kind of hallucinogenic :) Well, how else to explain that we were addicted to ... cowboys? No, seriously - it's cowboys - on horseback, in characteristic hats, moving steadily towards us ... in the Belarusian forest, yeah.

But the camera, which I did manage to raise to the mirage, confirmed two things:
1. There were no additives in the tea, everything was as usual - hay and ink :)
2. The windshield should be washed well, otherwise the cowboys turned out like a fog

I, moving away from one cognitive dissonance, immediately fell into another - to see the ship forest on ... sand dunes was incredibly strange. However, when I wrote about it on Instagram, I was told that for the west of Russia, for example. This is also quite familiar. Well, maybe - but I was surprised.

Literally half an hour of walking on the coast of the Isloch River - and the camera was replenished with several frames, but on the contrary, the head seemed to be empty - Fresh air and a walk through the woods help such ease.

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And along the way, they captured various beautiful things!

We walked and ran past the platform beach on the rocks (), and found there a lot of activity - November is on the nose, but bathing season in Antalya is far from being closed for everyone! And this is despite the fact that it is cool to swim here even in summer, cold springs beat somewhere under the water.
Under the first cut there are 8 more shots of the sea with swimmers and we are reclining on the grass in the same park. And below - we dive into the sand dunes of a pine forest!

6. And we admired this tree, exhausted after a run and breakfast (also not an easy task :), lying on the grass :)

7. Who is on the chair, who is on the mat, but everyone seems to be happy :)

8. A giant soccer ball was placed on the road to Kundu as an advertisement for turf (or whatever it is called). However, it didn’t work out to photograph him so that he visually “lyed on the grass” :)

We stopped in front of this intersection - Onur finally decided to show me an unusual forest that occupies a rather large area between the road and the Lara beaches.

Sand dunes and picturesque gnarled pines on them, stretching for almost 4 km along the road - this spectacle caught my eye from the very first days after moving to Kunda.

The territory of this forest, squeezed into a ring by the city, beach infrastructure, highway and resort area, now used for horse riding tours and quad bike safaris, and in some places there are encroachments local residents, grabbing flat areas for their gardens ... smoothly flowing into greenhouses ... until the next government, to attract voters, becomes generous with permission to build up the once inviolable forest zone. Recently, across the road next to someone's greenhouses, a fire "suddenly" broke out, spread to the territory of the forest, many trees died ... the greenhouses "miraculously" survived. It is very likely that this was a deliberate arson - not uncommon with forest areas that someone would very much like to turn into their own source of income.
The inhabitants of the nearest microdistricts come here for picnics, but they don’t have the habit of taking out the garbage, damn it. And what a forest park could be created here! Equipped, but retaining this beautiful "wildness" and some even otherworldliness.

I propose to walk together along the dunes among the bizarre bends of southern pines, forgetting for a while about the bustling city that surrounded us from all sides.
Photos in the album "Kundu ormanı" M eladan on Yandex.Photos. +36 frames under the cut.

11. Traces of jeeps and ATVs are found here and there, and from somewhere far away you can hear the noise of motors, but they drive far, and the sounds coming seem fake :)

13. We came across a whole meadow of wild flowering beauty;)

15. The city and the invaders-greenhouses break into the forest world ...

17. On our way we met two beds of dry streams. No pipes are visible from the side of the road, perhaps these streams are forever buried by man? Why then be surprised at the annual floods during heavy rains, when mountain streams overflow and, together with rainwater, flood entire streets and fields?

26. Another stream, view towards the road.

28. Traces of unknown animals ... a whole flock of dogs lives in the forest, but you can’t meet them during the day, so the walk is quite safe.

Voskresensky district is located on the western outskirts of the Meshcherskaya lowland, 88 km to southeast of Moscow. The district includes 5 settlements and 80 rural settlements. Resurrection Territory with its fields and meadows interspersed with the greenery of the forests, the mirror surface lakes, Moscow river with its tributaries Nerskaya, Medvedka, Semislavka - this is 811 square meters. km, of which 40% of the total area is forests. With Voskresensky district adjoin Ramensky, Orekhovo-Zuevsky, Egorevsky, Kolomensky and Stupinsky areas.

Voskresensky district located in the zone of mixed forests. Pine forests predominate, with an admixture of birch, oak, linden, hazel, mountain ash, and honeysuckle. The place of the former forest areas is occupied by agricultural lands or secondary small tracts of birch forests.

ozernost territory is 0.4%. total area water surface of different origin is equal to 3.4 sq. km. The swampiness of the territory is 2.2%.

Territory surface Voskresensky district mostly flat with some hills. highest point district (128 m) is located on the border with the Egoryevsky district. The lowest areas are located in the floodplains rivers.

The Voskresensky district is characterized by a relatively developed hydrographic network. Moscow riverbed cuts the territory of the district into two parts - right-bank and left-bank. The right-bank side, compared to the left-bank side, is more elevated and less indented by rivers and ravines. The left-bank side or the north-eastern part of the region is mostly lowland, indented by numerous rivers, flat ravines, lakes and swamps. Moskva river It has the right tributary of the river Otra and the left tributaries of the river Nerskaya, Medvedka, Semislavka. The flow of the rivers is calm, the average speed is 0.3 m/sec. The main source of food is snow water. The share of snow supply is 60%, rain - 20%, and about 20% is accounted for by underground and groundwater. There are many springs in the river valleys.

The picturesque nature of the region, large forests, an abundance of reservoirs are favorable for climatotherapy and treatment. There are mineral springs in the region.

In the territory Voskresensky district the following specially protected reserves are located: Moskvoretsky floodplain", natural monuments: "Pine forests on sand dunes", "Cotton colony of gray herons", "Moskvoretskaya oak forest". In these territories you can find such rare plant species as Siberian iris and white water lily.

In the territory Moskvoretsky floodplain reserve nest different types Birds: black-headed and little gulls, white-winged, black and common terns, turukhtans, handbills, various river and diving ducks. From protected rare in the Moscow region Great grebe, black-necked grebe, bittern and little bittern, black kite and other species of birds are noted here. On migration there are white-fronted and gray geese (12-15 thousand at a time), various ducks, common cranes, 11 species of waders. Hunting and commercial species of birds nest in the mass on the territory of the object. This is one of the most important in the center of the European part Russian Federation a stopping place on the spring migration of thousands of flocks of geese, ducks and other near-water birds.

History of the Voskresensky District

The first mention of villages in these places was found in 1339, in a spiritual testament Ivan Kalita.

The life of many remarkable people of the Russian state is connected with the Resurrection Territory. The prince spent his childhood in the village of Marchugi Dmitry Pozharsky. The famous writer Ivan Lazhechnikov lived in the Krasnoye Selo estate. AT estate Spasskoye have worked Nikolay Gogol. Own last summer Nikolai Gogol spent it in this village.

Writers and poets Boris Pilnyak, Konstantin Vanshenkin, Inna Goff, actor Vasily Kachalov, artist Konstantin Korovin, conductor and pianist Mikhail Pletnev left their memories in Voskresensk.

Great cultural and historical potential is presented estate complexes, cultural buildings, architectural monuments , historical and memorial sites. High placement density historical and cultural monuments in a relatively small area, convenience geographical location, the presence of water and railway tracks, developed network of good highways create easy accessibility memorable places tourist groups.