Central Forest Reserve

The State Nature Reserve Central Forest Reserve was established in 1930, in 1986 it received the status of a biosphere reserve. In the protected zone of the reserve, with an area of 46 hectares, a huge variety of representatives of the animal and plant world lives.

The territory of the reserve has a typical climate for the East European Plain and a biogeocentric cover. About 47% of the area of the protected zone is occupied by a forest, which includes untouched logging south-taiga fir trees, birch trees, aspen trees and pine trees. Part of the territory is occupied by swamps, shrubs and thickets of broad-leaved and mixed forests.

The conditions developed in the reserve are perfect for the habitat of 56 species of mammals, 212 species of birds, 6 species of amphibians, 5 species of reptiles, 18 species of fish and hundreds of species of insects. Impressive is the number of plants, which are in the reserve in the amount of more than 500 species.