Forest park named after academician I.I.Sinyagin

Creation History

The forest park named after academician I.I.Sinyagin is an arboretum with an area of ​​292 hectares, laid in 1973-75. on the initiative of academician Sinyagin Irakli Ivanovich, who headed the SB VASKHNIL - the center of agricultural science in Siberia. The man-made forest park zone, as conceived by the scientist-agrochemist, was supposed to recreate a favorable ecological situation, become a unique green recreation area for the inhabitants of the scientific town with a potential for growth of up to 40 thousand inhabitants, and also prevent the seeming inevitable offensive of the megalopolis of Novosibirsk on the chamber scientific village of Krasnoobsk , former at that time the residence of the Siberian branch of VASKHNIL.

Work on the creation of the Forest Park aroused considerable enthusiasm on the part of the inhabitants of Krasnoobsk, the vast majority of whom were employees of the institutes of the SB VASKHNIL. The arboretum with landscape types in landscape style, with a combination of open and closed spaces, was a complex natural object. The project was developed and implemented by high-level specialists. The site visibility, visibility, and range of prospects were carefully calculated and planned. A successful combination of green grass of the meadow with groups of a wide variety of trees, including valuable species, with their well-thought-out color, provided a high decorative effect. Residents of Krasnoobsk and employees of institutes were involved in planting and caring for seedlings.

Designers, builders, landscape designers, and the residents themselves made considerable intellectual and physical efforts to build Krasnoobsk, which was the scientific campus of the Siberian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The settlement was endowed with all the modern infrastructure corresponding to its status. Along with the scientific and residential areas, kindergartens, schools, a hospital complex, adjoining playgrounds, shops, etc. were built. Recreation areas for residents of all ages and preferences were not ignored. Being the first president of the Siberian branch of the All-Union Agricultural Academy of Agricultural Sciences, academician I. I. Sinyagin considered this task one of the priorities. It was Sinyagin who owned the idea of ​​creating a special green zone, the name of which decades later, grateful descendants will immortalize the name of a talented scientist.

Valuable species of trees and shrubs were planted on an area of ​​292 ha. About 1 million rubles were spent on creating a grandiose unique arboretum.

In accordance with the Zoning Scheme, also on the initiative of Sinyagin, two vast glades with a total area of ​​8 hectares were left in the territory - the zone of reservoirs. It was supposed in the future the possible placement of outdoor recreation and entertainment, sports and children's entertainment areas.

Along with the master plan of the science campus, the Presidium of the SB VASKHNIL developed the “Dendroplan”, in accordance with which landings were made, and the “Forest Park Zoning Scheme”. In accordance with this document, from the Central entrance to the Forest Park, 150 meters from the house number 201, was supposed to be located "Children's Zone" with an area of ​​9 hectares. The initiative also belonged to Irakli Ivanovich, who understood that children from a young age gravitate towards wider and more diverse communication and cognition, and house adjoining playgrounds provide children's needs exactly as much as they occupy in the common residential area of ​​the town. This idea was not destined to come true.

Forest Destruction

During the perestroika years

In the 90s, as a result of the predatory use of resources in the conditions of an ownerless short-sighted policy of the top of the Siberian branch of the Russian Agricultural Academy (RAAS), which became the successor of VASKHNIL, with the connivance of the municipal authority, the green zone of Krasnoobsk was damaged.

On the site of the planned "children's zone" began to be built townhouses and cottages. Part of the territory was leased to the Rosinka-4 gardening company. Thousands of trees and shrubs were destroyed, the area of ​​the Forest Park was reduced by tens of hectares, the damage, according to various estimates, amounted to tens of millions of rubles. It was cluttered with buildings and significantly limited access for residents to the forested area.

In the 2000s

In the zero years of the new century, the destruction and plunder of the Forest Park continued. The semi-spontaneous process of destruction of the forest park zone under houses and cottages accelerated and became even more organized. A significant part of the territory of the Forest Park was transferred by the administration of the village to developers for the implementation of low-rise construction. The nursery is ruined, part of the land has been transferred to entrepreneurs for the organization of a private garden. New owners and tenants were regularly discovered, who received plots in the green zone from the bounty of the village. Forest Park area has been steadily declining every year.

Along with this, the resistance to the destructive processes on the part of the inhabitants of Krasnoobsk, who more and more clearly realized the need for the most active actions to save the green zone, was ripening. Since 2005, individual deputies of the local Council of Deputies and social activists began to raise the issue of protecting the Forest Park on the agenda.

Protests on the part of the population began after the construction of a hozfekal collector in the Forest Park for the needs of the builder in the spring of 2004. 489 trees and shrubs were destroyed during the construction of this facility, the cost of which was estimated at 3.8 million rubles. Addresses and letters fell on the part of residents and environmental activists addressed to the administration of Krasnoobsk, headed by D.N. Leiman at that time, and Ermak LLC, which had received land from the village for low-rise development.

Forest Park today

Currently, the forest park is a powerful developing ecosystem. Due to the large specific gravity of young healthy conifers - with a safety margin of hundreds of years in advance. Each year, as naturalists note, the species composition of fauna and flora is expanding. The unique biogeocenosis formed in the forest park is the subject of observation and research for biologists, young naturalists, and nature lovers. On the territory of the forest park you can implement the idea of ​​creating micro-reserves, deeply developed by the famous entomologist, honored ecologist of Russia V. S. Grebennikov. In the forest park, according to observations of the last 10 years, there are 6 species of birds listed in the Red Book of the NSO (including the bearded and long-tailed owl), 3 species of Red Book bumblebees; two species of rare mushrooms (Ravenel mutinus and canine mutinus) are listed in the Red Book of Russia. On the territory of the forest park began to regularly meet foxes, to find fox holes. The presence of a stable and diverse population of birds of prey and mammals, which make up the top of the food chain in the biogeocenosis, indicates that all its links are fully represented, and therefore, about the stability of the ecosystem. Near the megalopolis (Novosibirsk), such reserves of biodiversity are of particular environmental, cultural and scientific value. Today, according to the current “Forestry Regulations” of Krasnoobsk, the area of ​​the Forest Park is 168.8 hectares. Over 70 species of trees and shrubs grow on its territory, including especially valuable ones and plants from other climatic zones. The zone is classified as “urban forest”, but does not have the status of a specially protected area. Demands of the public to carry out the necessary procedures and give the Lesopark and Krasnoobskaya Grove a real protective status were voiced in Krasnoobsk back in 2005. At a critical moment for the fate of the Lesopark, more than 2,000 signatures were collected. Thanks to this, at the 11th session of the Krasnoobsk Council of Deputies, for the first time, a decision was made to legalize the borders and status of the Forest Park. But the deal was never brought to an end. Thus, over the past 20 years, the Forest Park has lost 123 hectares. The frontal southern part was destroyed and built up after the construction of the hoz fecal collector in 2004. Today's Forest Park is surrounded by a strip of private property and there are no comfortable passages to it.

In July 2018, an “Agreement on the establishment of easements in relation to parts of land plots in municipal ownership” was signed between the administration of the settlement of Krasnoobsk and LLC Housing Initiative. This agreement provides for the laying of a gravity collector with a diameter of 500 mm through the northern part of the Forest Park - for complex construction on the territory of the Michurinsky Village Council. According to the plan, the total width of the reservoir zone will be 60 m, along the entire northern border of the Forest Park with a length of 4.2 km. The public and experts express legitimate concerns. On September 1, 2018, a protest rally in defense of Lesopark was held in Krasnoobsk, where slogans were voiced aimed at banning the laying of a sewer collector across the territory of a unique landscape art monument ^{[1] [2]} . In the independent newspaper Krasnoobsk, articles appeared in defense of Lesopark. In particular, the authors point out that the aforementioned “Agreement on the establishment of easements ...” contradicts the Forestry Regulation adopted by the administration of Krasnoobsk, according to which the green areas of the settlement Krasnoobsk belong to the category of protective forests: "urban forests", the legal regime of which is determined by Article 105 of the Forest Code of the Russian Federation . And it says that in forest parks and urban forests, the placement of capital construction projects (including pipelines) is prohibited. Residents of Krasnoobsk are sure that with the laying of the collector, the forest protection strip from balsamic poplar will inevitably be destroyed, as well as arrays of healthy 45-year-old spruce, fir, pine, larch, cedar, linden and landscape groups from various decorative trees and shrubs.

• V.A. Strizhkov. What kind of heritage are we giving up (Rus.) . KRASNOOBSK . krasnoobsk-novosti.ru. Date of treatment October 2, 2018.