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Park Losiny Ostrov, known since ancient times, by the way, is the only national park that is located within the boundaries of Moscow. It is hard to imagine that just a few kilometers from Garden Ring the real taiga begins, where moose, deer and wild boars live. It is not for nothing that these dense forests were chosen by Moscow sovereigns for hunting several centuries ago, and the thickets were taken under special protection.

national park Losiny Ostrov is located on the territory of Moscow and the Moscow region. The Yauza and Pekhorka rivers originate in the park. total area The reserve is about 116 square kilometers.

History paragraph

Losiny Ostrov has been known for a long time, from the 15th to the 18th centuries these regions were part of the Taininskaya palace volost - the most beloved and popular place for hunting among Moscow princes and tsars. Ivan IV, known by the nickname the Terrible, hunted bears here, of which there were a great many in these impenetrable thickets.

The forests of Elk Island already in those days, being the royal hunting grounds, were especially protected. At the end of the 18th century, in 1799, when Losiny Ostrov was transferred to state administration, a topographic survey was carried out here, the forest was divided into quarters. In the middle of the 19th century, the Losinoostrovskaya forest dacha appeared, and in 1842 the first forestry was founded here, the forest management was completed by the tax collectors Yegor Grimme and Nikolai Shelgunov.

Elk Island

The artificial creation of forests was started in 1844, at the initiative of the forester Vasily Gershner. Pine trees were grown mainly, and this process lasted for almost 115 years. The result makes itself felt to this day, plantings are still preserved, despite human impact. Thoughts about creating a reserve in these vast forests appeared at the beginning of the 20th century, but the tragic events of the beginning of the century destroyed these plans. During the Second World War, Losiny Ostrov suffered some losses - enough was cut down here. a large number of trees. official status national park Elk Island received in 1983, one of the first in the country.

In Losiny Ostrov, you can spend the whole day walking through these still dense groves, watching the frolicking birds or animals.

Flora and fauna

Elk Island is famous for its rich flora and fauna. More than 230 species of vertebrates live here, including many species of birds, mammals (among which, of course, elks, deer, wild boars, foxes, hares, squirrels, raccoon dogs, beavers, muskrats, hawks, white-tailed eagles and many others) More than 500 species of vascular plants grow in the park, rare herbaceous plants in the Moscow region. There are also mighty oaks, and dark firs, slender birches and fragrant lindens, and tall pines striving into the sky. The park is divided into three zones: a specially protected zone, a zone for walking and sports (open to a limited visit on strictly established routes), and a recreation area open to the public. In Losiny Ostrov, you can spend the whole day walking through these still dense groves, watching the frolicking birds or animals. Despite the fact that the park is located within the city, there is wonderful air here, and it is hard to imagine that the center of the metropolis is within easy reach from here. It is good to spend time in the park in any season and in any weather. In winter, among the snow-covered spruces and pines are laid ski slopes, in summer and autumn you can ride a bike, explore the forest paths, or wander on foot, listen to the birds singing in the spring and watch the awakening of nature. There are nurseries and museums dedicated to a variety of topics in Losiny Ostrov.

Coordinates

Elk Island is very large, so the park has several entrances located in different parts of the city.

Entrance in the Golyanovo area. From the metro station Ulitsa Podbelskogo by trams No. 2, No. 36, No. 13 and No. 29, children's sanatorium stop.

Entrance at Yauza. Trams from VDNKh metro station or Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad. By train from the Yaroslavsky railway station, to the Yauza station.

Entrance at Red Pine Street. from metro VDNKh buses 172, 136, trolleybus 76 stop. Printing College.

Entrance from Prokhodchikov street. From meters VDNKh 76 trolley bus stops Children's clinic and Fedoskinskaya street.

Losiny Ostrov National Park is a unique corner of nature in the middle of a metropolis that has no analogues in the world.

More than 800 species of plants grow on the territory of Losiny Ostrov.

Various sources testify to royal hunting in this place since ancient times. In 1798, Paul I established the Forest Department and gave it Losiny Ostrov. For the convenience of protection, the territory was divided by clearings into 55 quarters, these quarters have survived to this day.

Despite the rapid growth of Moscow, the outlines of Losiny Ostrov have not changed much over 2.5 centuries.

Where is the National Park "Elk Island" and its borders

Losiny Ostrov is located northeast of Moscow, about a third of it is within the boundaries of the metropolis. In the region, the park occupies the territory belonging to the urban district of Korolev, as well as Mytishchi, Pushkin, Shchelkovsky and Balashikhinsky districts.

The territory of the park stretches between 55 ° 47 "and 55 ° 55" N. latitude. and 37°40" and 38°01" E, between the Klin-Dmitrov ridge and the Meshcherskaya lowland.

The area of ​​Losiny Ostrov Park is 125 km², of which 83% is covered with forest. Reservoirs occupy 2% of the territory, and swamps - 5%.

In 1983, Losiny Ostrov became one of the first Russian national parks. The territory of the park is divided into 3 zones - the first is under special protection, the second is allowed to walk and play sports, but only along certain paths. And the third is available for mass visits and is intended for recreation of Moscow residents.

Official site

Walking routes

The employees of the National Park have developed walking routes with maps and indication of interesting objects on the route.

How to get there

Depending on the purpose of visiting Elk Island, there are different ways to get to the National Park, including public transport.

Arboretum

It is located 5 km from the Moscow Ring Road, at the fork of the Shchelkovsky and Balashikha highways. Ride on car follows the Shchelkovo highway, focusing on the coordinates of the arboretum: 55.828326, 37.897836. You can enter the territory only by following the direction to Moscow.

You can also get there by public transport shuttle bus No. 300 or fixed-route taxi No. 102k, following from Art. m. "Shchelkovskaya" to the stop "Lesotsekh" (Mr. "Emerald"). Having crossed to the other side of the road, walk 300 m. to the stop. "Road section" behind the traffic police post. There you need to cross the pedestrian crossing to the other side and walk 100 meters along the highway towards Moscow.

Moose biological station

You can get to the Moose Biological Station by car, focusing on the coordinates 55.879232, 37.784380. Drive along the Yaroslavl highway towards the region about 1 km after the Moscow Ring Road, then turn to the Druzhba settlement and go to the beginning of the Lesopark near Kropotkinsky passage.

From Art. m. "VDNH": by any scheduled regional bus to the first stop. after MKAD - "Yaroslavskoe shosse/Perlovskaya platform". Further on foot through the village. Friendship about 40 minutes on the main road and near the forest to the left.

From railway station "Los": bus number 547 to the stop. 4th Park Street, then through the checkpoint and straight ahead.

From railway station "Perlovskaya"(Yaroslavskoye, for example): minibus No. 3 to the final stop. near the forest "4th Parkovaya Street", then through the checkpoint and straight ahead.

"Tea drinking in Mytishchi"

Mytishchi, Vodoprovodnaya alley, 1 (55.898342, 37.794577).

From Art. "Mytishchi" of the Yaroslavl Railway on st. Kolontsova to the Yaroslavl highway, cross the highway under the bridge, then along the Vodoprovodnaya alley.

From the bus station to m. "VDNH" buses No. 388, 392, 451, 499, 551k, 576k, 565, 578, to the stop. Improvement Plant (4 km from MKAD or 20 km of the Yaroslavskoye Highway), then along Vodoprovodnaya Alley.

"Russian life"

Moscow, st. Prokhodchikov (55.862610, 37.729465).

From Art. m. "VDNH" buses No. 136, 903, minibuses No. 172, 544, trolleybus No. 76 to the stop. Det. clinic", or bus number 244 and minibus number 375 to the stop. "Youth Center". Then 200 m to the right from the Yaroslavl highway to the forest belt, then 1 km. through the park.

"Yauza"

Moscow, st. Bogatyrsky bridge, 17 (55.821032, 37.688541).

From Art. m. tram number 11 to the stop. "Bogatyrsky Bridge".

From Art. m. "Sokolniki" or Art. m. "Rokossovsky Boulevard" bus number 75 to the stop. "Bogatyrsky Bridge".

"Red Pine"

Moscow, st. 12th lin. Red pine, 28 (55.849054, 37.690551).

From Art. m. "VDNH" buses No. 136, 244, 903, minibuses No. 172, 375, 544, trolleybus No. 76 to the stop. "Printing College", then walk to the right from the Yaroslavl highway to the forest.

"Royal Hunt"

Moscow, Schelkovskoe sh. (55.835411, 37.911793).

From Art. m. "Shchelkovskaya" to the stop "Experimental field" bus No. 361, minibuses No. 1222k, 362k, 380k, 396k, 447k, 485, 506k, then through the forest 700 m.

Peat enterprise

G. Korolev, st. Central (55.888989, 37.851250).

From Art. "Bolshevo" of the Yaroslavl railway by bus number 7 to the final stop. "Pos. Peat enterprise", then walk 200 m.

"Abramtsevo"

Moscow region, with. Abramtsevo (55.837124, 37.825581).

From Art. m. "Shchelkovskaya" bus number 735 or minibus number 583k to the stop. Abramtsevo.

Onsite parking

Visitors can leave their cars in the parking lots of Losiny Ostrov, equipped near the eco-centers of the National Park or at horse yards.

The parking fee is 250 RUB. per car for the entire stay on the territory, and for sightseeing buses- for free.

Moscow region, city of Moscow

Founding history
"Elk Island" is unique territory. Here, near the city of many millions, the nature of Central Russia in all its diversity has been preserved in a natural state: coniferous, birch and broad-leaved forests, meadows and raised bogs, the sources of the Yauza with lakes and floodplains. Beavers, wild boars and elks, many birds of prey live ten kilometers from the Kremlin, and plants rare in the Moscow Region grow.
The Losiny Ostrov National Park is one of the first in Russia, created in 1983 on the territory that since ancient times served as protected hunting grounds for the Grand Dukes and Tsars.

Physical and geographical features
Geographically, the park is confined to the junction of the Meshcherskaya lowland and the Klinsko-Dmitrovskaya ridge, which is the watershed of the Moscow and Klyazma rivers. The most picturesque area in the southwest of the park. On the territory of the park there are the sources of the Yauza and Pekhorka rivers, there are several ponds: Alekseevsky, Golyanovskiy, Kazyonny and others. All these reservoirs are located in the recreational zone of the park. Swamps in the park occupy a fairly large area. Of particular value is the Verkhne-Yauza wetland complex with an area of ​​about 1000 hectares.
The climate of the region is temperate continental. The coldest month is January ( average temperature-10ºС), the warmest - July (average temperature +19.5ºС).

Diversity of flora and fauna
Forests occupy about 80% of the area of ​​the national park. These are birch forests, coniferous, broad-leaved forests.
The flora is dominated by forest species, a relatively large number of weedy, alien species is characteristic, because the park is surrounded by settlements, highways and agricultural land.
The park is quite widely represented by rare species of herbaceous plants that are subject to protection on the territory of Moscow and the Moscow Region. Here you can find common wolfberry, lily-of-the-valley, European bathing suit, nettle-leaved bell, two-leaved lyubka, annual moss.
An exceptionally interesting object of the park is Alekseevskaya grove, on the territory of which the reserved regime was preserved for a long time. This is a unique piece of forest almost 250 years old, the main forest-forming species of which is pine.
The fauna of the park is very diverse. In the last 15 years, thanks to the restoration of a large wetland complex in the upper reaches of the Yauza River and the allocation of a large area protected area, a very interesting ornithocomplex of near-water and meadow birds has formed here, spawning grounds have appeared.
In the forest, surrounded on all sides by cities with a population of many millions, spotted deer, elks, wild boars, mink, squirrels live or appear during migration, muskrats build their huts, and beavers build dams.
13 species of diurnal birds of prey and owls nest in the park, including the Falcon and Lesser Spotted Eagle, which are rare in the Moscow Region. Of the fish, the most common are pike, crucian carp, perch, roach, bream, burbot.

Cultural heritage
The long history of the development of the region and the proximity to the "white stone" explain the large number of cultural monuments on the territory of the park. During archaeological excavations, Vyatichi burial mounds (XI-XII centuries), ancient settlements were discovered. During excavations in the Alekseevskaya grove, the remains of a palace building of the late 17th century were found.
The history of the Mytishchi pumping station is closely connected with the construction of the first gravity water pipeline in Russia during the time of Catherine II. Once in these parts there was a chapel on the famous Thunder Spring, the most abundant source of water for the capital city. And Belokamennaya station on the first Moscow district railway- a rare monument of industrial architecture.

What to watch
The Losiny Ostrov National Park preserves not only the forests that once surrounded the Kremlin, but also the history of the rural way of life of our ancestors. In the museum "Russian Life", located in the estate of the Losinoostrovsky forestry, you will see both archaeological finds of the origins of the Slavs, and everyday items of the 19th-20th centuries. In winter, after a walk in the forest, in the hut you can warm yourself by the stove, drink hot fragrant tea. On hot days, the house provides coolness. From here you can organize horse rides in the park: in summer in a tarantass, in winter - in a sleigh with bells.
Ecological trails"Losinoy Ostrov" is one of the possibilities for combining relaxation with the knowledge of nature and history of the Moscow outskirts. The most visited route is the trail "Such a familiar forest". You can walk along it both independently and accompanied by a guide. Dense thickets of fir trees create the feeling of a fabulous dense forest and it's hard to believe that you are within the boundaries of Moscow, 2 km from the Yaroslavl highway and only 15 km from the Kremlin.

According to oopt.info and zapoved.ru

There is a national park in Moscow, which is located on Losiny Island. It is from him that the green massif was named. The first mention of the park dates back to 1406. The green massif, located in the north-east of the capital, was a favorite area for royal falconry and hunting. Since then "Elk Island" (park) has not lost its attractiveness. But now the territory is used for other purposes.

History of the park

The Elk Island National Park begins its history in the 15th century, but acquired its status later. For the first time, the green massif was mentioned in written sources during the period when Moscow became the center of northeastern Rus'. At that time, the island belonged to the Taininskaya volost, located along today's Yaroslavl highway. Ivan the Terrible was very fond of hunting in the park.

Later, a royal hunting economy arose on the island. The park began to be called the "Sovereign's hunting path" and acquired the status of a reserve. As before, hunting was organized on this territory, often with foreign ambassadors. The name "Elk Island" appeared only in 1710. In the 18th century. it began to belong to the state department, and hunting on the territory was forbidden to everyone without exception.

With the advent of St. Petersburg, attention to the park decreased significantly, and it began to overgrow with thicket, trees were mercilessly cut down by peasants for their own needs. In 1804 the position of the island changed. The protection of the forest area has resumed again. In 1805, the island again received the status of a reserve.

In 1822, the territory was divided into 55 quarters with one boundary rampart encircling their common borders. Organized forestry began only in 1842. Until 1912, revisions of natural resources were carried out, and the island was divided into 4 parts: one operational and three reserved. Losiny Ostrov National Park was established in August 1983. It was based on a ministerial decree. Since then, the territory has been considered a very valuable natural monument.

Description of the park

Today, Losiny Ostrov (Moscow) has an area of ​​over 116 square kilometers. The forest area occupies 80 percent of the territory. It is divided into three zones. The first is the reserved part of the park, where rare species birds and animals. This part of the island is closed to the public and is carefully guarded.

The second zone is called educational and excursion. Tourist and ecological routes are laid through this territory, accompanied by professional guides. There are four visiting places in this part. The third zone is called recreational. It is intended for mass recreation.

Park location

Losiny Ostrov (Moscow) originates from Sokolniki. It borders with cities:

• Korolev;
• Balashikha;
• Mytishchi;
• Shchelkovo.

The Losiny Ostrov park is located on an area of ​​12,000 hectares, but beyond the Moscow Ring Road there is only 2/3 of the forest. From the southwestern border of the reserve to the Kremlin is only eight kilometers. The length of the park from south to north is 10 km, from east to west - 22 km.

Nature

"Elk Island" (park) is very beautiful. In the center of the territory there is a small swamp, from which the river begins. Yauza. And also in the reserve there are many more streams and reservoirs that form a large water network. Previously, there were canals with a length of over 100 kilometers in the park. Now most of them are abandoned.

The largest canal is called Akulovsky and has been functioning until now. It appeared in the pre-war years and connects the Pekhorka and Yauza rivers with the Volga. Through the Akulovsky Canal, water enters the Russian capital.

Separately, it is worth paying attention to Alekseevskaya Grove, which for a long time also had the status of a reserve. This is a unique territory, the age of which is 250 years. There are many swamps in the park, and they occupy a fairly large area.

Vegetable world

"Elk Island" (park) always, even in war time was under the scrutiny of the leaders of the country. Trees were constantly planted on the territory. Thanks to the work of many volunteer designers, the reserve has acquired a wonderful appearance, as evidenced by numerous reviews.

Now more than 800 species of various plants grow in the park: lichens, mushrooms, etc. Many plants are listed in the Red Book of Russia. In the Alekseevskaya grove, pine mainly grows. Centuries-old lindens, taiga spruce forests and oak forests have miraculously survived. The herbaceous cover is also varied. Growing in the park:

• prolesnik;
• lungwort;
• wintergreen;
• buttercup anemone;
• double leaf miner;
• sedge;
• Zelenchuk.

The park grows a lot of strawberries, blueberries and sour, which is popular with visitors. Since it is replete with swamps, there is also an abundance of lingonberries on the territory.

Animal world

The animals of "Elk Island" are also distinguished by a great variety. There are over 280 species of birds and animals in the park. Among them:

• 180 - birds;
• 8 - amphibians;
• 4 - reptiles;
• 40 - mammals;
• over 20 - freshwater fish.

"Moose Island" (park) got its name for a reason. Since ancient times, many horned artiodactyls lived on the territory. The number of moose has survived to this day. In the post-war period, spotted deer also appeared in the reserve.

Wild boars began to breed, and now their population has increased significantly. The number of beavers has been completely restored. There are many fur-bearing animals in the reserve:

• ermine;
• squirrel;
• black ferret;
• marten;
• mink.

Owls and bats reign in the park at night. Rodents get along well with animals, harmoniously complementing the reserve with their presence.

Biological station on "Elk Island"

The biostation in the Losiny Ostrov park is located next to the Jaeger site. This is a place where it is allowed not only to look at artiodactyls. You can stroke and feed not only adults, but also cubs. Moose take it easy. They are very cautious animals and wild nature always try to avoid meeting people.

At the biostation, the artiodactyls are already accustomed to the presence of humans and are willing to make contact. The employees of the reserve tell those who wish about the peculiarities of the behavior of animals, their domestication and nutrition. There are separate individual excursions. In winter, you can even watch spotted deer. Visiting the biostation is by appointment.

How to get to the biostation?

It will take a long time to get to the biostation. From the metro station "VDNKh" in the direction of the region there are many regular buses. You need to take any of them and get to the first stop after the Moscow Ring Road. Exit before turning towards the village of Druzhba. Then walk along the main road for another 40 minutes. The path will take approximately 4 kilometers and will pass through the village.

When the road runs into a forest, turn left. From there, a barrier with a checkpoint will be visible. Go straight all the time, turn left at the fork and get to the biostation, which is equipped with a gate.

Elk Island (Park): how to get there?

You can do this in several ways. The entrance to the park is located on the side of Prohodchikov and Rotert streets. Nearby are the metro stations "Babushkinskaya" and "Medvedkovo". You can quickly get to the park from the Elk railway platform.

And you can also take buses No. 136 and 172, which depart from the VDNKh metro station. Trams No. 29, 36 and 12 go to another part of the park. They depart from the station. m. "Podbelsky Street".