Altufevsky Forest Park

The territory of the Altufevskiy complex reserve to be formed is located on the eastern side of the Altufevskoe highway north of the Altufevo metro station (see coordinates). The complex reserve is located on the territory of the natural complex No. 34 of the Khlebnikovsky (Altufevsky) forest park (blocks 114, 116) with a river valley. Chermyanka ". The reserve area is about 63 hectares. ^[2]

The territory planned for the creation of the landscape reserve "Altufevsky" was previously part of a large estate Altufevo.

It is known that in 1728 the estate was owned by N.K. Akinfov, and then his son Yuri Nikolaevich Akinfov, who became famous in the Chesme battle. In 1759, Altufevo was sold to Ivan Ivanovich Velyaminov, then in 1766 the estate was acquired by Count Matvey Fedorovich Apraksin. Subsequently, the estate was resold several more times - in 1766 to Countess Natalya Fedorovna Bruce, then in 1768 to the Moscow "staff physicist", doctor of medicine Andrei Andreyevich Rinder. In 1786, the estate was acquired by Stepan Borisovich Kurakin, a participant in many battles of the Turkish and Polish military companies. The description of the estate of that time said: “... The garden is regular. On the river, a flour mill in two sets. The river itself in the summer, a width of a fathom, a depth of 1.5 apex. In a dug pond - sapered fish, crucian carp. In the river pike, crucian carp, perch, roach. The forest is birch and aspen. Animals - hares, foxes, wolves. Birds - black grouse, partridges, ducks, waders. ” That was nature in the vicinity of the Altufevo estate two centuries ago.

In 1805, the estate was inherited by Princess Ekaterina Dmitrievna Kurakina. Subsequently, she resold the estate to “titular adviser and cavalier” Dmitry Ivanovich Prilonsky. In 1849, the current state councilor Nikolai Arsenyevich Zherebtsov became the new owner of the Altufevo estate and the "surrounding lands". In 1868, Countess Glafira Ivanovna Aleeva, who in 1872 sold the estate of Maria Yakovlevna Lachinova, became the mistress of Altufiev. After her, the owner of the estate was Baron Nikolai Korf. The last owner of Altufiev from 1888 to 1917 was a large businessman Georgy Martynovich Lianozov ^[3] .

Currently, the territory is under the jurisdiction of the State Public Institution "Mospriroda".

The flora of the reserve totals 218 species of higher vascular plants belonging to 145 genera and 57 families. The main part of the flora of this territory is meadow and marginal plants, which account for 51% of the total species composition. Also noteworthy is the high diversity of the wetland group, due to the significant area of ​​waterlogged and marshy areas. Forest species, mostly non-moral, make up only 16% of the flora. On the territory were revealed the growth of plants listed in the Red Book of Moscow and Appendix 1 to it: plants: buttercup anemone, marsh forget-me-not, May lily of the valley , snow-white water lily, tortuous Lerhenfeldia , as well as field barkweed, common leucanthemum and umbrella sousak . The following main types of plant communities are represented on the territory of the reserve: wet, upland, reed, bonfire, canary grass, grass-mixed and grass-grass meadows, river willows, aspen-birch grass-grass forest with birch hairy and pear-grass, birch-aspen forest , maple and linden plantations, linden alley, ash groves, poplar and alder forests, birch-poplar tall grass forest, gray alder with birch nettle-humid grass, boggy in places, middle-aged b grass-mixed forging, birch forests clean or with broad-leaved species birch forests with pine, middle-aged and ripening birch forests with ferns, birch wide-grass forest, medium-aged wet and damp-grassy birch forests in areas with increased humidification, rainy blueberry hairy, pine and birch-pine broad-grass-cereal and cereal-wide-grass forests, pine trees with blueberries, middle-aged grass pine trees with birch, middle-aged thick linden-larch forbs and grasses with a sedge hairy forest, broad-grass and horsetail-fern linden trees, middle-aged linden rare-herb stands, linden and maple-linden forest with birch and elm horsetail-fern and fern, various park plantings. Of particular interest is the transition sedge-sphagnum swamp with shrubby willows stretching along the channel of the Altufevskaya river east of the Altufevskoe highway ^[2] .

At least 11 species of mammals live on the territory of the reserve, among which the hare and the weasel listed in the Red Book of the city of Moscow , as well as the European mole, the common shrew, and the ordinary squirrel, listed in Appendix 1 . At the pond and along the banks of the river. Gravity can be seen or heard by many ordinary feathered inhabitants of the suburban forest. The variety of birds here is quite significant - their population is at least 57 species. Of the amphibians in the territory under consideration, grass and moor frogs were noted , but did not save reptiles here ^[2] , ^[4] .

• Directorate of Natural Territories of NEAD and Sokolniki
• The Altufevsky integrated nature reserve on the website of the Directorate of Natural Territories of the North-Eastern Administrative District and Sokolniki of the GPBU Mospriroda