Voronezh State Natural Biosphere Reserve

Voronezh State Nature Biosphere Reserve was established in 1927 to preserve the endangered species of animals - the river beaver.

The Nature Museum has existed with the reserve since 1934. The area of the modern exposition is 828 square meters - five large halls, which housed artistically decorated dioramas with species of animals and plants characteristic of the reserve, information stands and models, soil monoliths, a collection of horns of the noble European deer, entomological collections. In one of the halls of the museum there is a visit - center.

The Nature Museum is part of the environmental education department of the reserve. In addition to excursion work, the museum staff give lectures in schools, participate in environmental actions, prepare exhibitions of drawings and photographs, conduct excursions along the central estate of the reserve and ecological routes, distribute the environmental newspaper Kudeyarov Stan.

In addition to the nature museum, on the central estate of the reserve there are arboretum, demonstration aviaries with animals, an zoo corner, a 300-year-old "Petrovsky" oak, the only experimental beaver nursery in Russia.

Special programs have been created for schoolchildren, a training class with a film library and a film library is equipped, an ecological and zoological circle operates. Ecological camps are held annually for schoolchildren of Voronezh and Moscow. Children participate in the March of Parks, the annual creative competition of drawings and photographs "World of Nature Reserves".