🌳 Serebryany Bor

A forested island in a bend of the Moskva River, with pine woods, beaches, bays and eco-trails.

Serebryany Bor became an island in 1937, when the Khoroshevo straightening canal was dug.
The current name was given by a dacha settlement of the early 20th century, while the "Silver Ravine" is mentioned as early as a 17th-century boundary charter.
From the 16th century until 1917 the forest belonged to the royal family or their courtiers; in the 19th century the Fanagoriysky Regiment was stationed here.
In 1991 Serebryany Bor was declared a natural monument.
About 400 species of vascular plants grow here, 40 of them tree species.
Summer Serebryany Bor with its boat stations was described by Yuri Trifonov in the novella The Students.

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