🌳 Prioksko-Terrasny Reserve: Bison Nursery

Серпухов, д. Данки, административный центр заповедника

A biosphere reserve by the Oka with the Central Bison Nursery: European bison and American bison in forest enclosures, the Nature Museum and the “Road to the Bison” eco-trail.

It is the only state nature reserve in the Moscow region and one of the smallest in Russia.
The reserve was created on 19 June 1945 and in 1979 joined UNESCO's world network of biosphere reserves.
The bison nursery was founded in 1948 by Mikhail Zablotsky, whose name the whole reserve now bears.
The nursery covers 200 ha: each bison family lives in its own enclosure, and the enclosures are linked by long corridors.
The golden bison on the coat of arms of Serpukhov District came about thanks to this nursery.
In the south of the reserve grows the “Oka flora”, steppe plants described in 1861 by Moscow University professor N. N. Kaufman.
Beavers, exterminated by the early 20th century, were brought back in 1948: two pairs were brought from the Voronezh Reserve.

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Serpukhov: bison, the kremlin and Vysotsky Monastery