Ridge Vyaryamyanselka nature reserve description and photo - Russia - Leningrad region: Priozerskiy district (Topic)

Nature reserve "Vyaryamyanselka Ridge" description and photo - Russia - Leningrad region: Priozersky district. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The Vyaryamyanselka Ridge Nature Reserve is an important protected natural area located in the Priozersky District of the Leningrad Region, which is 4 km north of the Michurinskoye village and one km from the village Berry. You can get to the reserve from the city of St. Petersburg, driving to the railway station called Petyajarvi.

The work of the reserve began in 1976. By a 1996 state decree, the natural monument was transferred to the section of the state nature reserve of regional importance. The purpose of the creation of an integrated reserve was the preservation of the largest in area of the Russian water-glacial ridge with extraordinary relief forms, a rich variety of vegetation, a unique hydrological network and the rarest species of not only flora, but also fauna. State control over the natural complex is represented by the government of the Leningrad Region, or rather the Committee for Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of the Leningrad Region.

The total area of the nature reserve is 7279 hectares, including 556 hectares covering the area of lakes. The reserve stretches along the southern territory of the Privuoksinskaya lowland in the direction from west to east. The entire ridge is more than 50 km long and approximately 2.5 km wide. On the southern side, a large and rather developed lake system with a large number of channels and streams adjoins the ridge.
"Vyaryamyanselka Ridge" refers to the ledge of the so-called pre-Quaternary relief, which separates the Privuoksinsky depression and the vast Kotovsky plateau. The ridge is an ozovo-kam complex, composed not only of sand, but also of gravel-sand material, with huge hollows, the depth of which reaches 35 meters with a diameter of 400-500 meters. The maximum height reaches about 80 meters. In the zone where the ridge is located, there is the only outcrop of gray-bluish sandstones belonging to the Gdov horizon in the entire northwestern part of Russia.

Not far from this area there is virtually all the variety of pine forests located in the Leningrad region. The largest zone is occupied mainly by green moss and green moss-lichen forests. It should be noted that sphagnum and long moss pine forests are quite rare. Especially varied in composition, but small in area are birch and spruce forests. In the north-west of the nature reserve there are a couple of plots of green moss-lichen-moss birch forest, unusual for the north-western zone; on the southern side of the lake shore there is an extended stretch of linden and birch forest, in which the height of some lindens reaches a height of 20-22 meters.

In the zone where the reserve is located, the rarest plant species for this territory grow, which include: a dirty shark, circumpolar astragalus, marsh telipteris, pemphigus, lacustrine, Dortman's lobelia, an umbrella winter-lover, as well as several types of lumbago, such as open, meadow and spring.

As for the fauna of the complex reserve, it is more typical for the middle zone of the Karelian Isthmus. Not only a huge variety of forest birds lives here, but you can also find nesting places for a large number of daytime predators: hobby, wasp eater, goshawk, as well as a number of owl species: downy owl, eared owl, long-tailed and bearded owls. Black and spotted woodpeckers, black swift, nightjar, and crested tit are quite common in this area, but the gray woodpecker is rarely seen here. Among young pine forests you can find whirligig nests. In the canyons of the Volch'ya River and along the coastal areas, there are blackhead and garden warbler, songbird and blackbird, white-browed and fieldfare.

Specially protected objects of the nature reserve include water-glacial landforms, forests, a river and lake network, rare species of animals and plants: bunchy kachim, lacustrine mushroom, whirligig, lumbago meadow and many other representatives of flora and fauna.

Topic: Ridge Vyaryamyanselka nature reserve description and photo - Russia - Leningrad region: Priozerskiy district.