Chernobyl special reserve

The reserve was created according to the Decree of the President of Ukraine of August 13, 2007 No. 700.

The nature conservation facility was created to protect valuable natural complexes of Polesie . The reserve occupies the flood plain and valley of the Pripyat River in the territory of Dityatkovsky (3,959 ha, squares 178–242), Opachichsky (28,722 ha, all squares) and Paryshevsky (16,189 ha, squares 291–306, 309–398) forestries. The reserve also includes tributaries of the Pripyatː right-bank floodplain of the Uzh River , the estuary of the Braginka River. The borders of the reserve are the state border with Belarus in the north, the line along the villages of Dityatki - Gubin - Strakholesye in the south, the P56 road (from the village of Dityatki via Paryshev in the direction of the village of Gden ; in addition to Chernobyl , on the right bank of the Uzh River) in the west, the Kiev reservoir in the east .

The floodplain of the Pripyat river is swampy, in places with sand massifs. The estuary part of the Pripyat channel is heavily meandered with many branches and islands, as well as old women in the floodplain. In the territory of the modern reserve there were previously 58 settlements, which after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 were resettled.

Zoning of the reserveː conservation zone 612 hectares, zone where forest management is limited to 17 556 hectares, zone where forestry is allowed 30 702 hectares.

The nearest settlement is the north village of Gden and the south of the village Strakholesie , Gubin , Dityatki ; city ​​- Slavutich , Oster .

The landscape of the reserve is represented by forests, swamps, wetlands in the floodplain and directly the waters of the Pripyat River and the Kiev Reservoir. Due to the lack of anthropogenic impact, the reserve is a place of renewal of the natural biocenosis characteristic of Polesie.

490 species of higher vascular plants grow in the reserve, among which 31 rare species and 19 species are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine. Plants are represented by typical boreal species for Polesie. Forests are represented by the dominance of pine , in places pine- birch forests and sections of willow. In the floodplains of the swamps are represented by shrubby alder types. Wetland vegetation is represented by reed, mannik, sedge.

70 species of mammals (12 Red Book), 11 amphibian species, 7 reptile species, over 200 bird species (37 Red Book) are recorded in the reserve. It is a nesting place for 168 species of wetland birds and 65 species winter. During the migration period, up to 253 bird species are found here. In the reserve there are protected species of hare , Eurasian lynx , brown bear , river otter , badger , European mink , ermine , nightlight , bat , European shiroshushka , small kutora .

After 1998, Przhevalsky’s horse was successfully acclimatized in the reserve ^[1] . An imported pair of bison died ^[2] .

• Geographical Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Publisher Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia. 1989.
• Map sheet M-36-25 Chernobyl . Scale: 1: 100,000. State of the terrain for 1985. 1986 edition
• Merezha Territory and Oblast of the Natural Resources Fund of the Region as a camp for 1 year 1998 p. The State Department of Ecological Bezpeki in the Kiev Region. - Kiev, 1998

• Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 700
• About the reserve on the site pryroda.in.ua