Rzhevsky Forest Park

The Okhten State Forest Dacha was founded at the beginning of the 18th century, and for the first time it was dissociated , already under the name Dacha of the Okhta military settlements, in the course of the Ingermanland survey in 1848. According to the plan of 1833, the first in Russia forest management was carried out on the territory of the massif; the area of ​​the massif was then equal to 5747 ha. In 1868, part of the array (1938 hectares) was transferred to the Ministry of State Property .

On March 22, 1902, the massif received the status of “training forest” by going to the St. Petersburg Forest Institute (now the Forestry University), and on October 20, 1922 it was given the name “educational and experimental farm”.

Then the area of ​​the massif was gradually reduced, and by 1970 it was 1111 hectares. In 1978, a part of the territory of the Vsevolozhsk parkleshoz with an area of ​​618.9 hectares was transferred to the Okhta leshoz, and the leshoz area was 1,729 hectares. At the same time, two training forest districts were organized: in the northern part of the forestry enterprise - Zhernovskoye , with an area of ​​924 hectares, in the southern part - Kudrovskoye , with an area of ​​805 hectares. Prior to this division into forest districts, the leshoz did not have ^{[1] [3]} .

In 2009, in connection with the construction of the Ring Road , 3.1 hectares of forest park were transferred to industrial lands ^[2] .

Rzhevsky forest park is located on the eastern outskirts of St. Petersburg and in the south-western part of the Vsevolozhsk district of the Leningrad region.

Bordered by:

• in the north (along Poperechnaya street , Lesoparkovaya street and Ryabovsky highway ) - with Krasnogvardeisky district of St. Petersburg
• in the west (along Sosnovsky Avenue , Naberezhnaya Street , Lesnaya Street , Vodoprovnaya Street and Kommuny Street ) - with the historic district of St. Petersburg Rzhevka-Porokhovye ^[4]
• in the south c Koltushsky highway , villages Zanevka and Novosergievka and SNT "Kolos"
• in the east - with the village of Yanino-1
• In the northeast - with the airport "Rzhevka" and Kovalevsky Forest

The meridian is crossed by a ring road (a section of 5.5 km in length, that is, 4% of its land part and 20% of the total length of its parts passing through forests), high-voltage power lines coming from the Vostochnaya substation (part of rings of St. Petersburg ) and a single-track railway line connecting the station Rzhevka , the Split Post platform ^[5] (liquidated in 2003) and the Zanevsky Post station (on which the passenger platform also operated until 2003) in the village of Zanevka . The “ Lapka River” (Zhernovka) and the Karaulov stream flow along the “east-west” line. Through the southern part of the forest park passes railway line " Ladoga Station - Mga "

The nearest metro stations are   " Ladozhskaya " (4 km to the west) and   " Prospect Bolsheviks " (4 km south-west).

The nearest city, except St. Petersburg, is Vsevolozhsk (2 km north-east of the forest park border).

• In the 20th century, more than 20 km of forest management glades were laid through the Okhta forestry through the forest park and more than 10 km of drainage ditches were dug. In the 1980s, 90 blocks were organized in the forest park, the average area of ​​the quarter was 19.4 hectares ^[1] .
• The area of ​​the Rzhevsky Forest Park (17.26 km²) is approximately equal to the total area of ​​the Vasilyevsky (10.9 km ² ) and Petrogradsky (6.35 km²) islands.
• Near the Ring Road in the forest park there is a monument to those killed in a plane crash on May 29, 1985 ^[6] . In the 2000s, the memorial plaque of the obelisk and the propeller blades of the sculptural composition were stolen. Subsequently, the plate was restored, and the obelisk - was restored.
• Rzhevsky forest park, being a recreation area for a large number of citizens (according to separate estimates, up to 3 million visits per year ^[7] ), is subject to heavy litter. Garbage is cleaned by volunteers . The volunteers' letters to the municipal authorities, administrations of the district and the region with a request to help bring the forest park in order received answers that the forest park was not in the hands of these administrations ^{[8] [9] [10] [11]} .

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  Building Okhtinsky forestry.

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  Fence of the Okhta forestry. year 2013.

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  Alley in the Rzhevsky forest park near the river Lapka .

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  The road in the direction of Novo-Kovalevo.

• The director of the Okhta training forestry leshoz (for 2016) is Rafik Kanaijyan ^[12] , earlier Vladimir Romanov.
• Leshoz address: St. Petersburg, Sosnovsky Avenue , Building 2.
• Leshoz phone: (812) 526-65-49

• Topographic map of the central part of the forest park, 1: 15.000 (1990)
• Rzhevsky Forest Park on Wikimapia
• Flora Zhernovskogo forestry