Address for skiing Elk Island. “What remains of Losiny Island?” Tushinskaya ski slope in Alyoshkinsky forest

To go cross-country skiing, you don’t even have to travel outside of Moscow: they can be found nearby, and not somewhere in the Altai mountains or the Caucasus. We have found the most worthy Moscow ski centers: choose the nearest one and go conquer the ski slopes!

Ski slopes in Sokolniki Park

The most extensive ski center in Moscow is located in Sokolniki Park. There are a dozen and a half trails with a total length of about 50 kilometers. The paths are compacted with snowcats - and they are usually in perfect condition, weather permitting. Ski, pole and boot rentals are open from 9:30 to 21:00. Luggage storage is available for an additional fee. The ski workshop is open. And on weekends there is laser biathlon.

A unique feature of Sokolniki is the presence of two all-weather ski slopes. Sections of two and four and a half kilometers in length are compacted from natural and artificial snow so densely and efficiently that they are not afraid of short-term above-zero temperatures, and you can ski here in any weather - even when the rest of the paths are melting.

On December 16, 2017, the official opening ceremony of the all-weather ski track located on the 2nd Luchevoy Prosek will take place in Sokolniki Park for ski lovers. The opening will be marked by the now traditional event “All Umbrella Run”. According to the rules of the race, in addition to standard sports equipment, participants will be asked to take umbrellas with them and fit them into the overall image, because this accessory is a symbol of the route. The theme of the upcoming race, as well as the entire winter concept of the park, is “Musical,” so the organizers propose to decorate the umbrellas in accordance with the theme. Absolutely any objects in different styles and colors can become decorative elements. The owners of the most original and stylish umbrellas will receive prizes. Prizes will be awarded to participants in the categories “Most Creative Umbrella”, “Miss Season Run”, “Most Sportsman” and “Youngest Participant”. Anyone can take part in the race, regardless of age and skiing skill. Spectators of the race will enjoy a cheerful parade of skiers, various competitions, and, of course, performances by artists with famous compositions from musicals. The gathering place is the Starting Town. Applications for participation can be left by email: [email protected]. The gathering place is the Starting Town. Registration is available via this link and at 11:30 a.m. on site. The race starts at 12:00. The event ends at 13:30.
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Ski slopes in Bitsevsky forest
Bitsa Forest Park is a wonderful place for outdoor recreation for Muscovites. In terms of infrastructure, this is the best place for skiers in Moscow. The Alfa-Bitsa sports club monitors the track and everything around it.

At the entrance there is a spacious parking lot in the area of the 37th kilometer of the Moscow Ring Road, at the starting clearing they sell ski equipment, as well as everything additional - from lubricants to gloves. From 9:00 to 18:00 there is a rental point and service center; their clients can use the luggage storage for free. Locker rooms are open until 22:00. There is a cafe with fast food and drinks.
There is also a children's playground for those who come with children who have not yet skied. The maximum length of the ski loop is 24 kilometers. If you are not very confident in skiing, choose the five-kilometer route. It is quite interesting, with gentle descents and ascents. You can ride both classic and skating.
Ski slopes in Ostankino Park
The VDNKh area is one of the most popular and interesting vacation spots in Moscow. Probably everyone knows about the local skating rink. But you can also go cross-country skiing in the park. The trails are laid through Ostankino Park. If there is snow, you can ride along the alley of the park, as well as along the Sheremetyevo oak grove, along the Kamensky ponds and alleys of the Botanical Garden. In the evening the trails are illuminated. There is a pavilion with equipment rental in Ostankino Park. Opening hours: daily from 11:00 to 20:00. There is also a storage room and a toilet.
Ski slopes in Izmailovsky Park
Izmailovsky Forest Park is another pleasant place for outdoor recreation. In winter, there is, of course, cross-country skiing here. Most of the skiing is spontaneous, laid in a park area, suitable only for measured skiing in the classical style. However, the Izmailovo ski club trains in the forest part of the park, and it maintains several kilometers of trails for both classic and skating in good condition. The total length of the prepared ski track is seven and a half kilometers.
There are three ski equipment rental points in Izmailovsky Park, but there is a changing room only at the main entrance, on Moskovsky Prospekt. On weekdays, the rental and locker room are open from 11:00 to 20:00, on weekends - from 10:00 to 22:00.

Ski slopes in Kolomenskoye
The Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve has two very picturesque ski tracks along the most beautiful sights of the park. One of the tracks reaches five kilometers in length: there is where to ride and what to see. Those who are not so keen on skiing will like it here, but want to have a good time in the fresh air and take a dozen memorable photos. The equipment rental office is open from 11:00 to 19:00.
Ski track in Gorky Park
You can ski even in the very heart of the Russian capital. In Neskuchny Garden, if there is good snow cover in Moscow, two ski tracks are laid - one and three kilometers long. Equipment rental is available.
Ski slopes in Kuzminki Park
This year, two tracks have also been prepared in Kuzminki Park. One is for skiing, the second is for laser biathlon, which Muscovites loved so much last winter in Sokolniki. It is not necessary to bring all the equipment with you; there is a rental point in the park, but you will have to change clothes outside.
Tushino ski slope in Alyoshkinsky forest
A local sports school trains in Northern Tushino, so the track here is prepared with high-quality snowcats. In the Aleshkinsky forest there is an easy one and a half kilometer long loop and a more serious route seven and a half kilometers long. There is lighting along the short route.
Ski slopes in Krylatskoye
Krylatskoye is better known as the center of Moscow cycling. But in winter, when snow falls, ski tracks are laid along the bicycle route. The loop is quite interesting for skiing, but there is no infrastructure for skiers here.
Ski track in the Moscow State University park
The five-kilometer loop near the main building of Moscow State University is one of the local attractions, especially in winter. The route is quite interesting, suitable for full training. The ski track is equal to the snowcat.
Ski track in Losiny Ostrov
Losiny Ostrov is the largest Moscow forest park. Thousands of people visit here every day, so with the onset of winter, the ski track is formed spontaneously. There are quite a few kilometers of trails for the classic course. Beginner skiers are primarily interested in the park because of its pleasant walking areas and the opportunity to see moose and other wild animals.

In addition, in Moscow people ski wherever there is something similar to a forest park - in Northern Tushino Park, Maryina Roshcha, Pokrovsky-Streshnevo, Olympic Village and many other places.

Leonid Liverovsky

From the author

I try to keep the article up to date. The last change was made in February 2019 in the section “Park against the people (cases from life”) and in March 2010 in the section “Loot will conquer everything”.

Having fallen under the skating rink of the law in May 2016, when it suddenly became clear that it was prohibited to be in a significant part of the Losiny Ostrov national park, the author decided to turn to the editor-in-chief of the Volny Veter newspaper, Sergei Mindelevich, for legal advice and the question of how to start the fight for Losiny Ostrov . He answered like this:

"Good afternoon!

You are asking where to start. From an article in the newspaper "Free Wind".

You will write such an article, outlining in detail all the problems and your arguments against the actions of the national park (this, by the way, will allow you to systematize everything and simply use it in the future). Find photos or diagrams that illustrate the text. We will publish such a text (well, if it is well written) and send it to various departments that are OBLIGED to respond to the newspaper. It will be possible to prepare public hearings of the problem in the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. If you write quickly enough (before mid-June), the material may end up in the next issue of the newspaper.

By the way, in court it will be possible to attach the newspaper with the publication to the case materials.
Just write with an emphasis on tourism, after all, our newspaper is a tourist newspaper.

So - pen (computer) in hand, and go!

Good luck!
S. Mindelevich"

I wrote an article, and all summer, corresponding with Sergei Vladimirovich, I improved it and waited for publication in the newspaper. Finally, in early October 2016, I received the following response from him:

I’m very busy right now, “so publish your article on your site. By the way, I spoke about “Elk Island” to the Ministry of Natural Resources with Stepanitsky, he said that this national park is already very small and it is impossible to further reduce its territory, as well as to lay public trails through it. Therefore, I think the appeal will not have any effect - officials will definitely find important reasons why to reject your proposals. But you can try.

S. Mindelevich"

As for the struggle for our rights, we regret to say that there are very few who are ready to actually participate in it. Few are fools to play with cheaters, and few are ready to pick up a candelabra.

Even the petition on the website of the Russian Public Initiative from 2016 “77F3587 2 Ensure free access for citizens to the part of the Losiny Ostrov park located outside the Moscow Ring Road” received 774 votes for, 64 votes against. According to the law, in order to simply consider an initiative (and reject it), you need to get 100,000 or more votes within 2 months. And you can do this without leaving the couch. I well understand Pyotr Shkumatov, who became disillusioned with the people’s ability to influence the government when, at the end of 2018, hundreds of thousands of people signed his petitions on the Internet, but only 3,000 came to the rally, that is, a hundred times less.

On the other hand, there are a small number of enthusiasts who, despite the threat of a fine, use both hand and gasoline tools to clear paths and clearings from fallen trees, and despite everything, continue to walk and ride on Losinon Island.

In 2018, on the advice of Sergei Vladimirovich, I wrote directly to the President. It sank like into a bottomless barrel. No answer, no hello.

Elk Island was...

Moscow continues to grow, no matter what. She doesn’t care about crises or sanctions. The region is not lagging behind. Cars and houses are rapidly encroaching on fields and forests, pushing the weekend tourist further and further from the city. Now almost everything up to the first concrete ring is densely built up and fenced off.

The happy exception was, yes, yes exactly there was, and the reader will soon understand why, Elk Island. Tourist routes here could start right from the city, from the metro, from a public transport stop, from the train platform and pass through uninhabited areas far outside the city - to Mytishchi, to Korolev, to Balashikha, to Zheleznodorozhny, and further to the north and north-east of the Moscow region.

Why was it, the reader will ask? Here's why. For decades, the author of these lines traveled from his dacha to Moscow by bicycle or on skis through Losiny Island. Once again riding a bicycle in “Losiny Ostrov” on May 29, 2016, I was rudely stopped by some people in camouflage with hunting weapons, who blocked my path with their ATV. Surprisingly, they turned out to be not bandits, but “the sovereign’s people,” or rather forest guard inspectors, who were given unprecedented powers, no less than those of the police. They can draw up reports of offenses, deliver, confiscate, arrest, use special means (gas, handcuffs, batons and service weapons). It’s good that I didn’t run away from strange people in camouflage without shoulder straps and with weapons. I could end up like this young motorcyclist in the photo from the official website of the national park. He resisted the inspector (most likely he tried to escape). I went for a motorcycle ride in the forest, and as a result I got a criminal case.

While drawing up the protocol, the inspectors explained to me that since the beginning of 2016, the territory in the outskirts of Losiny Ostrov has simply become more strictly guarded, and has become a prohibited zone for outsiders to visit for a long time, namely since the approval of the boundaries of a specially protected natural area (SPNA) in 2012 .

My objections, that the forbidden territory along my route was not marked in any way on the ground, had no effect on them. They referred to the fact that ignorance of the laws does not excuse them from responsibility, that the boundaries of the restricted zone are published in the Russian newspaper, and the park has on its website that the corresponding signs were installed, and that the administration has the relevant documents - acts and photographic records, and is there any they don't really care. A protocol was drawn up and sent to the administrative commission of the national park for a decision.

As a result, in my case it turned out to be “zilch”.

The administrative commission did not find the case. They said that it was most likely not lost, but because of some shortcomings in the preparation of materials, the commission did not accept the case from the inspector recording the violation.
Oh, I was getting ready... It's a shame, listen, yes...
Truly, Saltykov-Shchedrin’s apocrypha is true: “The worst laws are in Russia, but this deficiency is compensated by the fact that no one implements them.”

The path network in the “regional” part of Losiny Island began to take shape after the war, and was finally formed by the end of the 60s, when the narrow-gauge railways were dismantled and the Mytishchi peat enterprise ceased its activities in the village. Pogonny and in the village of Central.

For hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Muscovites and residents of the region, a dense network of paths was, if not the only opportunity to get from the region to Moscow by bicycle without exhaust fumes from cars, organize a variety of weekend tourist routes (on skis, by bike, on foot), go on photo hunting is very important. The tourist and recreational importance of this part of Losiny Island is difficult to overestimate. And now, overnight, we are losing routes that have existed for many decades.

The officially protected area serves as a resting area for animals living on Losiny Ostrov, especially during the breeding season. This explains the ban on outsiders being there. At the same time, commercial horse rides regularly take place in the same territory, and state security inspectors ride around on ATVs and snowmobiles, raiding cyclists and skiers, who, unlike “commercial” tourists, naturally disturb the peace of animals.

Here the interests of ordinary citizens collide with the bureaucracy. Zoning and the regime for visiting the park were invented by nature conservation officials, clearly without taking into account the interests of citizens.

What is more important than the interests of hundreds of thousands and millions of ordinary citizens who do not have helicopters and therefore are almost deprived of access to nature, or the interests of the department?

Is it advisable to set up a prohibited zone of such a huge size next to a multimillion-dollar city, where there are almost no such large forests?

Are there endemic species in the park that need to be protected here on Elk Island?

Do we need laws that force respectable citizens to hate government?

Is it possible to find a compromise?

To find answers to these questions, we must try to enter into dialogue with legislators. My proposals for finding a compromise on Elk Island are as follows.

Option 1. Make the entire Mytishchi Forest Park (everything north of the Yauza River, i.e. the entire territory adjacent to the town of Korolev), the entire Alekseevsky Forest Park (the entire territory east of the Akulovsky Water Canal), the entire territory south of the village path, a recreational zone. Friendship - village Pogonny in the Losinopgonny forest park. In winter, one ski track passing through the ice along the Yauza is classified as an ecological trail, where you can be without permission.

Option 2. Make the entire Mytishchi Forest Park (everything north of the Yauza River, i.e. the entire territory adjacent to the city of Korolev), the entire Alekseevsky Forest Park (the entire territory east of the Akulovsky Water Canal) a recreational zone, give the status of ecological routes (trails) to the existing path network to south of the village path. Friendship - village Pogonny in the Losinopgonny Forest Park, where you can be without permits. In winter, one ski track passing through the ice along the Yauza is classified as an ecological trail, where you can be without permission.

My proposals preserve a significant part of the specially protected territory and the entire protected area, and completely exclude violations of the protected area regime by tourists, that is, respectable citizens, since almost all paths become accessible for passage.

I’m only afraid that this is impossible in the current conditions, because then the budget will receive a certain amount of fines.

We must pay tribute to the Ministry of Natural Resources that from time to time it defends the territory of Elk Park from attempts to build something there. The most famous story is Mayor Luzhkov’s request to build a 4th transport ring through the territory of the national park; at the same time, he wanted to build an elite cottage community in the forest. It's good that it didn't work out. So far, the Ministry of Natural Resources is resisting the construction of a backup route for the Shchelkovskoye Highway right through the park. On the other hand, the same ministry turns a blind eye to the construction of the RIO shopping center in the protected zone of the park and mass housing construction in Balashikha on the territory of the protected zone (Shchitnikovo, Izumrudny and Yantarny microdistricts).

Therefore, it is harmful to fight for the transfer of “Losion Island” from federal subordination to the jurisdiction of the Moscow region, then everything will definitely be immediately built up and fenced off. The development of territories with fenced settlements in the near Moscow region is proceeding so quickly and aggressively that forests have already appeared into which it has become almost impossible to get into - they are surrounded by fenced settlements through which there is no passage. There is a forest, but only the owners of the plots can get there through the gates at the back of the plot. Example 1 (full environment). Example 2 (partial environment). The same fate may befall Elk Island.

The law is the drawbar (law enforcement)

Having cheerfully begun to terrorize pedestrians, runners, cyclists and skiers in 2016, the enthusiasm among foresters had noticeably waned by the winter of 2017-2018. Signs with the text “NO ENTRY”, if there were any, mysteriously disappeared almost everywhere. The author knows of only three places where such signs remained at the beginning of 2019: at the entrance to the elk biological station, at the garden center, at the paid fishing station.

In the 2017-2018 ski season, as well as in the 2018-2019 season, the author did not hear about cases of fines from skiers and did not encounter them himself, but in the 16-17 season there were ambushes and raids. I myself saw the ambushes in the 16th, but I wasn’t caught - I’m not a thief, good people warned about the ambush... It seems they stopped getting to the bottom of pedestrians and cyclists too... In the summer of 2017 and 2018, I also didn’t hear about raids on pedestrians and cyclists myself didn't come across.

The forest inspection focused on fishermen, mushroom, berry and flower pickers, as well as barbecue makers and mechanized citizens - those who enter the national park on cars, motorcycles and ATVs.
The hunt for motorists in the inner-city part of Losiny Ostrov is going well. There are several public roads that pass through the park and do not have no stopping signs. People drive off the road into a dirt pocket, and this is already the territory of the park, and the trick is in the bag - they violated it. This is practiced on Belokamenny Highway, Yauzskaya Alley, Losinoostrovskaya Street.
The fight against barbecue and barbecue makers takes place mainly in Korolev in the forest at the back of TsNIIMASH. In Moscow they have almost stopped burning barbecues.
But there are also cases of fines “for being found”. For example, let's look at the State report. inspections for the period from October 22 to November 5, 2018:
During the period from October 22 to November 5, 2018, the state inspection of the national park, as a result of raids, opened 55 cases of administrative violation. The largest number of violations occurred in the detection of movement or parking of mechanized vehicles not related to the functioning of the national park - 29 cases of administrative offenses were initiated.

I was very interested in this report “other violations identified by government inspectors”:

stay on the territory of the national park by individuals who are not employees of the national park without permission from the directorate of the national park;
Auto.- Everything is clear here, but in 2018 and 2019 I never came across natural tax collectors either on skis, on a bicycle or on foot. But even if I started going there, I tried to move along clearings and paths that were partially blocked by trees or were too narrow and not suitable for ATVs and snowmobiles. I asked skiers from Korolev, at the traditional ambush site at the Yauza ice ski track there were no raids either in the 17-18 season or in the 18-19 season. To avoid getting caught in the summer, it is better to walk rather than ride a bicycle - when you hear the sound of a motor or see people, you leave the path into the forest, money collectors do not run after you, this is the advice a runner from Korolev gave me. In this sense, a cyclist is defenseless - it is difficult to hide in the forest rubble with a bicycle.
activities that may cause damage to natural complexes and flora and fauna of the national park;
activities that entail disruption of the living conditions of flora and fauna;
Auto.- This is fishing and photography with the seizure of tools, streets and cameras. Fishermen can be found on the ponds near Oboldino and on the lake. Peat.
damage to special signs marking the boundaries of a specially protected natural area and national park property;
Auto.- A few signs remain only at the lair of natural tax collectors. Somewhere and and. In other places I've been, there are no signs anymore. Only the prohibition signs disappeared without a trace. About fires, cars, etc. - everything is in place. Attach photo and video materials to the case that there are no signs if they are caught. Walk with a video recorder.
Patrolling was carried out jointly with police officers in patrol cars and ATVs and kayaks.
Auto. - They really catch fishermen and rare eccentrics who try to ride on the Yauza in inflatable boats and kayaks.

According to information from the Velomania website, the park's management has so far unofficially decided to leave cyclists, skiers and pedestrians alone. (The topic on the VM is about the ban on travel through the Leningrad Region. One of the park employees there, under the nickname Lesnik, writes often). He claims that non-mechanized tourists will only be bullied if they climb into a protected area.

But the law remains the law, and you can always get to the bottom of it.

Cut off the tail in parts (building)

With the permission of the Balashikha administration, the Asterra Invest company in 2015 built several four-story houses in the Balashikha quarter of Abramtsevo (the Golyanovo Park project). According to the cadastre, this territory is classified as “Losiny Ostrov”, where nothing can be built. After lengthy legal proceedings initiated by activists with the involvement of Rosreestr, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Park, the company lost the case. The houses, however, had already been built by that time, and the apartments in them had been sold. Now (2018) the company is trying to legalize the buildings by obtaining a state environmental assessment retroactively. For now, the houses still stand empty, surrounded by a fence. We'll watch.

Illegal construction is in full swing in the security zone of the RIO shopping and entertainment center park, despite petitions and objections from residents (built by LLC
"Georesurs", on a land plot behind cadastral number 50:12:0101604:3, 2 km. from the Moscow Ring Road along the Yaroslavl highway). According to Kartoteka.ru, Georesurs LLC is 27% owned by the eldest son of the Prosecutor General Artem Chaika, 25% by Tashir Capital LLC, and the remaining shares are owned by offshore companies. The project of the shopping and entertainment complex involves the placement of over 300 stores of leading international and Russian retail chains. The project provides a parking lot for 2,800 cars.

The Morton group of companies, during the construction of the Shchitnikovo microdistrict, entered the territory of the national park and cut down trees there on an area of just over a hectare. Nature defenders were found, and the prosecutor's office of the Moscow region challenged the general plan of Balashikha. The court found that the general plan, adopted by the leadership of the Balashikha district, “contained unreliable information about the boundaries of the park” - in some areas the border retreated into the park up to 400 m. The prosecutor’s office also discovered that the general plan was adopted in violation of the law, namely, it was not coordinated with the Department of Rosprirodnadzor for the Central Federal District. As a result, the court in December 2009 declared the general plan partially ineffective. However, it was still not possible to save the “Losiny Ostrov” section; a road was built there.

And so on: in the Balashikha district, after clear sanitary cuttings approved by the administration, additional microdistricts “Izumrudny” and “Yantarny” appeared on the territory of the protective zone of the Losiny Ostrov National Park.

The Ministry of Defense plans to sell the territory of the former 59 Arsenal in the area of Veshni Vody Street for development. While there are disputes among economic entities about what will be built on this site. No one doubts what they will build. According to Kommersant, the mayor's office believes that the architectural concept should not be standard, and that the project itself should be developed by a consortium of investors. Colliers International partner Vladimir Sergunin believes that 3.5-4.5 million square meters can be built on Veshniye Vody Street. m of real estate.

Developers are approaching Losiny Ostrov not only from the park’s borders, but also from the inside. According to Open Russia (blocked for some time - TOR Browser is in our hands) - "Moose City instead of Losiny Island", the company "GrandNext" is going to build a residential complex at the address. Losinoostrovskaya, possession 45 - in the very center of the Moscow part of Losiny Ostrov. On an area of 14.3 hectares, it is planned to build four residential buildings with a height of 99 meters (approximately 25 floors), a school, a kindergarten, underground parking for 1,500 cars and ground parking for 150. According to the company, up to two thousand residents will live here. According to published project development, it is also planned to expand the road leading to the future residential complex to 800 meters. So far (as of January 2019) construction has not yet begun, but in spite of everything, construction on Losinoostrovskaya, no. 45 is planned, and sales have already begun (as of March 2019).

Some park development objects on the map

It is also planned to build roads in the national park and its protected zone.

North-East Expressway (SVH)

In 2018, construction of part of the North-Eastern Expressway was completed in the section from Shchelkovskoye to Otkrytoye Shosse.

In 2019, it is planned to begin construction of a section of the temporary storage warehouse from Otkrytoye Shosse to Yaroslavskoye Shosse. Despite this, there is no public information yet on the project for planning a new highway through the territory of the Losiny Ostrov National Park. The author believes that the lack of accurate information about the project suggests that the cheapest version of the project was chosen, involving the destruction of part of the national park. In order to avoid organized protests, the authorities are hiding the exact information on the route of the highway. Sudden night deforestation in the Leningrad Region, belated protests from residents and some municipal deputies are expected. Modeled after the felling of the Belorussky Park near VDNKh.

It is known from unofficial sources that the new road will most likely go along the outer side of the circular railway with a distance of up to 400 meters from the Leningrad Region. So far (end of 2018) the following is known:

Perhaps part of the temporary storage warehouse will be paid, namely from Festivalnaya Street to Yaroslavskoye Shosse or even to Otkrytoye Shosse.

Peace is War (understudy of Shchelkovskoe Highway)

Shchelkovskoye Highway (A103) is a very busy road with constant traffic jams. The four-lane road was designed to carry 25 thousand cars per day, but now, according to Rosavtodor, about 70 thousand cars travel along it. This happened due to the predatory, barbaric development of hundred-meter-high human forests in almost the entire free area along the highway (from Balashikha to Shchelkovo), which practically eliminated the possibility of expanding the existing highway.

As Kommersant writes, the duplicate route project developed by the department encountered the problem of approval from the Ministry of Natural Resources and was suspended (as of December 2018). The Ministry of Natural Resources does not approve the project.

It got to the point that in August 2018, the head of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, at a meeting with Putin, said that the region had problems with congestion on the road that leads to Chkalovsky airport, Star City, and asked for help. The President promised to “look”, and looked, giving instructions "on the expansion and approval of boundaries... for carrying out road design work":

Related materials:

An interesting selection of documents on the topic of the Shchelkovskoe highway understudy

5 options for the Shchelkovskoye Highway backup - choose any

They want to cut down 100 hectares of "Losinoy Ostrov" for the backup of the Shchelkovskoe highway.

So, pieces of Elk Island are gradually being eaten away. Sooner or later, money will conquer everything, and we will finally lose Elk Island.

Historical information about "Losiny Island"

Losiny Ostrov National Park is a forested area surrounding the swampy headwaters of the Yauza River, and currently bounded by Yaroslavskoe Highway, Shchelkovskoe Highway, the city of Korolev and bordering Sokolniki Park, known as a special territory since the 14th century. In those distant times, these were the rich hunting grounds of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, where all hunting, logging, hay and construction were prohibited, but passage through the forest was not prohibited. The original name was « Pogonno-Losiny island" since the royal elk hunt took place here for a long time. The word “island” was then used in the meaning of “a plot of forest in the steppe, in an open place” and “forest grove”. The shorter name “Losiny Ostrov” was finally assigned to these places by the beginning of the 18th century. .

Remaining royal hunting grounds, and largely thanks to the transfer of the capital by Peter to St. Petersburg, in such a pristine form, having the character of primeval forests, these places survived until the first quarter of the 19th century, when scientific forest management began on this territory.

For the first time, these places were declared protected in 1799, when Losiny Island, together with Sokolniki, was transferred from Sovereign ownership to a state department called “Reserve Grove”.

From 1838 to 1917 Losiny Island was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture, which carried out forest management. In 1842, a detailed survey of the area was carried out, clearings 6 m wide were cut into 1 sq. m blocks. a mile away, they began to manage the farm according to science - cutting dead wood, where necessary - planting and sowing. At the beginning of the 20th century, the first zoning of the territory was carried out - a country park, a national park, an operational part, a reserved part.

At the same time, walks on Losiny Island were not prohibited. The famous Russian artist Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin recalled how at the end of the 19th century he and A.P. Chekhov and company went from Sokolniki on foot to fish all the way to Mytishchi (which has now become illegal):

"We walked through the large Losinoostrovsky forest to Bolshie Mytishchi, where we caught fish with a fishing rod on the Yauza. And they cooked fish soup in Mytishchi." "In the evening they wanted to go to Moscow again on foot, but Ignashka advised not to go, since robbers appeared on the high road: on the road they rob pilgrims going to St. Sergius the Trinity, rob and even kill, so now there are mounted gendarmes are driving." ... "Some went to the station, and we - Anton Pavlovich, me, Ordynsky, Melnikov and Nessler - went on foot to Moscow."

(From the book “Konstantin Korovin remembers...” Compiled by I.S. Zilbershtein, V.A. Samkov. 2nd edition, supplemented. - M.: “Fine Art”, 1990. - 607 p.)

The idea of creating a national park on Losiny Island was first expressed by scientists in 1909-1912, but the outbreak of the First World War prevented these plans from being realized.

In 1917, according to the “Decree on the nationalization of l
esov" Losiny Island came under the jurisdiction of the Moscow City Council, all restrictions were lifted, including hunting. However, already in 1919, the most valuable forest areas were allocated in Losiny Island with a complete ban on firewood logging. In 1934, Losiny Ostrov was included in A 50-kilometer "green belt" around Moscow. By decree of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR in 1983, the State Natural National Park "Losiny Ostrov" was founded - the first national park in the USSR.

It was still possible to walk around Losiny Island, and people and animals coexisted perfectly. In the photo by A. G. Strelkin “Deer on Losiny Island in 1950” and “Skiers in Losiny Ostrov in 1950.”

Chronology of Losiny Island:

The history of human settlement in the Losiny Ostrov region, as well as in the entire Moscow region, dates back at least 20 thousand years. V - II millennium BC - finds from the Neolithic period are known directly near the borders of the national park. 9th century - the first chronicle mention of the “mytnaya” (road) duty, from where Mytishche-on-Yauza and Nikolskoye-Mytishche originated on the borders of the then Moscow possessions. Numerous burial mounds and Slavic settlements in the park are dated to the same time.
1156- the first chronicle mention of the Yauza River. 1336 - mention of Vasiltsev camp - a grand ducal hunting ground, part of which was located within the territory of the current national park.
The initial documentary information about the territory of the National Park is associated with the Losinoostrovskaya dacha - "Pogonno-Losiny Island" - and dates back to the middle of the 14th century. Known, in particular, from the spiritual letters of Russian princes - Ivan Kalita, Dmitry Donskoy, Vladimir Dmitrievich and their descendants. They mention arable lands, forests, and borders located on the territory of the current national park.
Later, this area became the site of royal hunts and falconry for Tsar Ivan the Terrible and the first Romanovs. The lands of Losiny Ostrov are under protection. During the “Time of Troubles,” economic activity in these places is sharply reduced, and former arable lands are again overgrown with forest. The heyday of “Losiny Island” as a hunting ground is associated with the reign of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, who began the construction of numerous hunting estates and palaces, in connection with which the Alekseevskaya Grove (southeast of “Elk Island”) became famous, where now on the site of one of these estates There is a museum complex "Tsar's Hunt".
"Alekseevskaya Grove", located in the south-eastern part of the dacha, was the residence of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and was used for recreation and hunting. In the Losinoostrovskaya dacha and in the vicinity of Moscow, hunts were held for bear, hare, and other game, and especially for elk, which served to assign the name “Pogonno-Losiny Ostrov” to the forest dacha. Hunting in the surrounding lands was prohibited to all other persons except the royal family, under pain of cruel punishment. All this contributed to the preservation and reproduction of various game and made it impossible to use the forest.
Peter 1 can rightfully be called the first forester of Russia. It was he who first looked at the forest as a property of the state, from which it followed that the benefits of private individuals should yield to state benefits and public interests. It was he who drew attention to the importance of forests for running water and was the first to stand up for them with a sovereign decree on March 30, 1701, prohibiting the clearing of forests in the Moscow district for arable land and hayfields at a distance of 30 miles from the rivers, “along which forests are melted and driven to Moscow.” . In addition, Peter forbade not only cutting down forest along the banks of rivers and canals, but also processing logs brought to the water, “so that those rivers would not become littered from those chips and rubbish.” In total, he issued more than 300 decrees on forestry during his lifetime.
1710- the first mention of “Elk Island” in scribe books.
1767- A land survey book and a plan for the “village of Alekseevsky and Losinnago Pogonnago Island” are being drawn up.
In the 17th century the forest dacha was transferred to the state department under the name "Sovereign Reserve Grove", and in 1798 - to the jurisdiction of the newly formed Forest Department, through whose efforts forest guards were introduced in 1803, since the forest dacha "constitutes a single noble and important thing throughout the province state property": foot and horse civilian guards. In 1805, the dacha was classified as a “reserved forest”, and during 1809 it was under the jurisdiction of the “Kremlin building expedition”.
In 1822. Losiny Island was transferred to the exclusive reserve of the Moscow Vice-Governor, under whom the dacha was divided into blocks by clearings and topographic surveys were carried out for the first time “to bring the forests into proper awareness.”
From 1838 to 1917 The Losinoostrovskaya dacha was under the jurisdiction of the Moscow-Tver Department of State Property of the Ministry of Agriculture. At this time, the first forest inventory was carried out (1842), which served as the beginning of organized forestry. During the first forest management, a detailed survey of the dacha was carried out with the cutting of clearings 6 m wide with an average block size of 1 sq. verst. 55 quarters were organized. The total area of the dacha was 6337 hectares (the historical part of Losino-Pogonny Island). Forest management noted that near Moscow there is a dense forest, consisting mainly of high-density spruce-pine plantations aged 80 - 90 years.
The end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th century - for the first time in Russia, peat extraction began in the swamps of the upper Yauza and Pekhorka, which lasted here for almost two centuries. At the same time, in accordance with the decree of Catherine II, the Mytishchi water supply system was built, the buildings and structures of which, located on the territory of the national park, are monuments of industrial architecture.
1804 d - "Losiny Ostrov" comes under the jurisdiction of the Forestry Department. A forest guard is created. One of the oldest environmental documents is the “Regulation on the best conservation of the six state-owned groves closest to Moscow...” (Losinoostrovskaya, Sokolnicheskaya, Alekseevskaya, etc.). After the end of the Patriotic War of 1812, the construction of the first dachas began in Sokolniki, which subsequently spread throughout almost the entire perimeter of Losiny Island. The surviving dacha buildings of the late 19th - early 20th centuries should also be considered as architectural monuments.
1822- topographic surveys are carried out in the forest area and clearings with blocks of 1 sq. m are cut. mile. The block network of the forest dacha has been preserved within its historical part to the present day.
1840 - 1842- during the first forest management in Russia, the forests of “Losiny Ostrov” were described, a border ditch was dug and a rampart was poured.
1846- Losinoostrovskaya forest dacha was organized. The oldest forest plantations in the Moscow region were established, some of which have survived to this day. In the second half of the century, a drainage network was laid here, also partially preserved.
1888- A forest school is opening in Losiny Ostrov to train forestry specialists.
Revision of forest management 1906 - 1907 It was proposed to divide the dacha into three economic parts, and in the western part a park farm with selective felling was formed, and Alekseevskaya Grove was allocated as a separate park farm.
1912 . During the revision of 1912, four economic units were formed: a dacha park, a national park, an operational part, and a reserved part. They provided only for the felling of dead forest, and the plantings were supposed to be used for a comprehensive study of the forest growing in natural conditions in the absence of human intervention.
Forester S.V. Dyakov proposes to create the first national park in Russia on Losiny Island.
In 1917 According to the “Decree on the nationalization of forests”, the Losinoostrovskaya dacha came under the jurisdiction of the forestry department of the Moscow Council of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies, by whose decision in 1919 it was allocated to the most valuable areas - reserves with a complete ban on the collection of firewood.
In 1918 On July 15, the first out-of-school institution for children opened in Moscow and in Russia. Biological station of young nature lovers of the Sokolnichesky district of the Council of Workers' Deputies in the 47th quarter of the Pogonno-Losinoostrovsky forestry (now Yauzsky) "Losinoy Island". It still works and is the initiator of the first holidays in Moscow and Russia - “Bird Day”, “Forest Day” - in the 20s of the 20th century.
1919- The Moscow City Council decides to allocate the most valuable forest areas, which include Losiny Ostrov and Sokolniki.
20s of the XX century - the Central Forestry Experimental Station operates in Losiny Ostrov.
In 1920. The forest dacha was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Petrovsko-Razumovskaya (now Timiryazevskaya) Agricultural Academy for educational purposes and the organization of experimental research work, as well as the proper organization of hunting.
From 1922 to 1925 For a year, the dacha was under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Forestry Institute, and after its merger with the Leningrad Forestry Institute (now the Forestry Academy), it became its educational and experimental farm. Then, in 1927, it was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Central Forestry Experimental Station (CFOS) as a base for carrying out research work.
In 1929, on the initiative of CLOS, Losinoostrovskaya dacha is included in the Moscow region forestry enterprise.
In 1931 Losinoostrovskaya dacha was included in the 50-kilometer belt around Moscow. Only maintenance felling was carried out here; clear felling was allowed only when laying power lines for the MOPP.
1941-1945. The worst thing happened to the plantings of Losiny Ostrov during the Great Patriotic War, when forests over a large area were cut down for firewood for heating. During this same difficult time, the future national park suffered from unauthorized seizures of land for vegetable gardens and subsidiary plots, and intensive grazing.
In 1946. A special order was issued to improve the protection and restoration of forests in the Losinoostrovskaya forest dacha. Since 1949, the dacha as part of the Moscow Forestry Enterprise came under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Landscaping Department, and then became part of the Moscow Forest Park Belt, managed by the Moslesopark office. The Losinoostrovsky forest area becomes part of the protective forest park belt of Moscow.
Simultaneously with the reassignment of the Moscow Region forestry, its area changed due to the inclusion or exclusion from its composition of forest districts: Mytishchi, Izmailovsky, Golyanovsky, Kuchinsky, Malakhovsky, Yauzsky, etc. Over the 20-year period from 1929 to 1949, the area of the forestry changed from 14 up to 20 thousand hectares.
By order of the Moscow Landscaping Administration "On the reorganization of forest park management" in 1956, three new park farms were organized on the basis of the Moscow Region forestry enterprise: Balashikha, Kuchinsky and Moscow Region forest park farms. The Moscow Region forest park farm included Losinoostrovskoye (3423 hectares), Yauzskoye (881 hectares) , the western part of the Golyanovsky forestry (I184 hectares) and parks: Pokrovsko-Streshnevsky (232 hectares), Khoroshevsky (103 hectares). The total area of the forest park farm was determined to be 5823 hectares.
1972- by decision of the Moscow City Council, the Losiny Ostrov natural park was formed.
In 1963 The Moscow region forest park farm was reorganized into the Mytishchi forest park farm of the Moscow Forest Park Directorate, consisting of: Losinoostrovskaya forest dacha, Alekseevskaya (former Golyanovskaya) dacha and part of the Mytishchi forest park farm (former Mytishchi dacha). According to forest management 1965 - 1966 The area of the Mytishchi forest park was 9047 hectares.
In 1979 about By a joint decision of the Moscow city and regional councils of people's deputies, the Losiny Ostrov natural park was created under the authority of the Forestry Management Department of the Moscow City Executive Committee. The natural park included the forest dacha "Pogonno-Losiny Ostrov" - this is the central part of the park (52% of the total area of the park).
1983. Losiny Ostrov National Park was formed by Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR dated August 24, 1983 No. 401 “On the creation of the Losiny Ostrov State Natural National Park on the territory of Moscow and the Moscow region for the purpose of preserving natural complexes, as well as optimizing environmental management and developing national culture and creating conditions for organized recreation."
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All this time it was possible to walk, ride a bike, or ski in the Leningrad Region.

2016 In “new capitalist Russia” they began to fine people for being in many parts of the park.

"FROM THE HISTORY OF "ELK ISLAND" S.V. Dyakov, Listki BYUN (Biostation of Young Naturalists) named after. K. A. Timiryazeva:

The Moscow Forestry Society in 1910-1911 raised the question, in view of the exceptional importance of Losiny Ostrov for the city of Moscow, about the need to allocate forest areas from its forest plantations, from which nature reserves should be formed - natural monuments, where in the future the life of plant communities should take place without human intervention. In 1912, this was carried out, and such areas were allocated in the 38th, 20th, 21st, 34th and 35th quarters, and “Alekseevskaya Grove”, which is also part of Pogonnoye, was included in the reserves. Losino-Ostrovsky forestry.
At the proposal of the same Moscow Forestry Society, half of Losiny Ostrov was classified as a “National Park” similar to North American national science parks. This marked the beginning of the creation of national parks in other regions of Russia. This idea was not realized only as a result of the 1914 war and the events that followed it. Let's hope that under new living conditions, under the Soviet system, the idea of forming “National Parks” will turn out to be viable and will be implemented in the Republic. All of the above depicts with sufficient clarity both the social and scientific-educational significance of Losiny Ostrov. All these circumstances have been taken into account for a long time, and since 1898, Losiny Ostrov, as an educational forestry dacha, has been listed under the Pogonno-Ostrovsky forest school and the Moscow People's Forestry College, which replaced this school. Since 1921, the forest dacha has also served the scientific and educational needs of the Moscow Forestry Institute. During the 5 years of the war, the entire Losiny Island, on the initiative of the same Moscow Forestry Society, was recognized as a reserve in relation to its forest inhabitants - animals and birds, and hunting on the Island was completely prohibited.
A few years later, the result was amazing - the Island was so overcrowded with forest inhabitants that forestry was under attack. The moose wandering on the territory of the Island began to cause significant damage to the forestry, destroying young pine plantings, gnawing the bark of young spruce stands and trampling nurseries. Simultaneously with the reproduction of animals and birds, the development of predators proceeded at the same pace - foxes, martens, etc. appeared in large numbers. At the same time, the same interesting phenomenon was observed as in the North American United States - animals and birds changed their attitude towards humans, seeing he is a friend, not an enemy. It was easy to observe the life of forest inhabitants in a natural setting. Losiny Ostrov, in all likelihood, would have become a natural zoo for Moscow if not for the war and the subsequent revolution, when, as a result of the crisis experienced by Moscow, most of the game was killed.
Only since the transfer of Losiny Ostrov to the Moscow Forestry Institute was it possible to restore the protective value of the Island for forest inhabitants, and by a special decree Losiny Ostrov was recognized as a reserve for fauna.
Losiny Ostrov, under the current conditions, should in the future be an exemplary zoo for forest inhabitants with an exemplary animal farm - not only for the breeds of the central zone of the Republic, but also for the acclimatization of animals and birds that are valuable both in hunting and interesting in the natural sciences.
Attempts in this direction are already being made by the hunting department at the Forestry Institute. For the broad development of this matter, the closest participation of all interested organizations is necessary. For better scientific and educational use of the natural resources of Losiny Ostrov, it is necessary to improve communications on the territory of the Island, establish biological stations for student excursions, organize a society of “forest friends”, especially among young people, prohibit the pasture of livestock, reduce haymaking and other economic uses of the forest that violate the natural conditions for plant and animal life, as well as the organization of the actual protection of Losiny Ostrov from all kinds of violations - logging, unauthorized hunting, etc.

Existing natural complex in its current form has developed in Losiny Ostrov just over the last 50-100 years. This is due to the industrial development of natural resources - peat extraction, firewood procurement and the construction and expansion of roads (MKAD, Yaroslavskoe highway, Shchelkovskoe highway). The construction of the Mytishchi water pipeline in the 19th century, and the Akulovsky waterworks and the canal from it to the village made their contribution. Eastern in the XX century.

In the upper reaches of the Yauza, peat began to be mined in 1870. At first, the center of peat mining was the village of Pogonny, presumably from it to the factory of Frans Rabek in the village of Novye Gorki (now the Yubileiny district in the city of Korolev) there was a narrow-gauge railway, which at the end of the 20s was rebuilt to a gauge of 1524 mm and in the 30s extended to Ivanteevka. The estimated opening date of the first section of the narrow-gauge railway is 1921. According to the GOELRO plan, the former weaving factory of Franz Rabeneck, located in the village of Starye Gorki (now Pervomaisky), was turned into a power plant with a capacity of 2350 kW, operating on peat. Perhaps already in those years peat was transported from mining sites along a narrow track.

In 1932, the village of Tsentralny was founded (unofficially called “Peat Enterprise Village”). Later, a broad gauge railway line was built from the village to Bolshevo station, the remains of which can still be seen today. In some places, even rails have been preserved, for example, shortly after the water canal, the road from Korolev to Central crosses this railway, where rails were still miraculously preserved in the forest, but the crossing is now paved. In the village of Tsentralny peat began to be reloaded onto a broad gauge railway; the main station of the narrow gauge railway was named Peregruchnaya. The narrow-gauge railway to Mytishchi was built before 1930.

Construction of the hydraulic engineering complex of the canal named after. Moscow in the 30s-40s of the XX century included a canal supplying water to Moscow, from the Akulovsky hydroelectric complex to the village. Oriental. This canal cut off the westernmost part of Losiny Island from its main part.

In addition, during the Great Patriotic War, a significant part of Losiny Island was cut down for firewood. So what we see now in a significant part are secondary forests planted by humans after the war.

Moreover, in 1962, Losiny Ostrov was cut into two parts by the MKAD (Moscow Ring Road), but animals and people could still cross it anywhere, until the reconstruction in the MKAD in the late 90s, when the two parts of Losiny Ostrov were finally separated by a modernized ring road limited by fences and a barrier separator. In the Leningrad Region there are two overpasses left for people and three tunnels under the Moscow Ring Road, where streams flow and people and some animals can get through.

Thus, the landscape of the Leningrad Region and especially the upper reaches of the river. The Yauza, where the most protected part of Losiny Island is located, with its canals, straightenings, dams and lakes, in its current form was finally formed after the cessation of peat extraction there in the late 60s of the last century, and, in the author’s opinion, is not unique, requiring for its preservation of a strictly reserved regime. The need to have a biological station there to the detriment of the active recreation of citizens is also questionable .

The historical part about is written based on materials:

http://lost-plases-mo.narod.ru

S. Bolashenko http://sbchf.narod.ru

S. Dorozhkov http://narrow.parovoz.com

“FROM THE HISTORY OF “ELK ISLAND” S.V. Dyakov, Leaflets of the ByuN named after KA Timiryazev, May 12, 1924 (on the website of the Methodological Center for Tourism at the Ramenki Extracurricular Activities Center)

Legal certificate about protected areas

The legal basis for the ban on staying on Losiny Island appeared only in the new capitalist Russia.

In 1995, Law No. 33-FZ “On Specially Protected Natural Areas” was adopted, which gave the administration the right to prohibit people from staying in them, and as amended on July 13, 2015, also to charge a fee for being in protected areas; the tourist community has so far unsuccessfully fought against this fee. This struggle was led by the now closed newspaper “Free Wind”.

This law determines, in particular, the zoning of protected areas:

a) protected area , which is intended to preserve the natural environment in its natural state and within the boundaries of which any economic activity is prohibited;

b) specially protected zone, which is intended to preserve the natural environment in its natural state and within the boundaries of which excursions and visits to such an area are allowed for the purposes of educational tourism;

c) recreational area, which is intended to ensure and implement recreational activities, the development of physical culture and sports, as well as the placement of tourism industry facilities, museums and information centers;

d) zones for the protection of cultural heritage sites(historical and cultural monuments) of the peoples of the Russian Federation, which is intended for the preservation of these objects and within the boundaries of which it is allowed to carry out the activities necessary for their preservation, as well as recreational activities;

e) economic zones, within the boundaries of which it is allowed to carry out activities aimed at ensuring the functioning of the federal state budgetary institution that manages the national park, and the livelihoods of citizens living in the territory of the national park;

e) zones of traditional extensive nature management, which is intended to ensure the livelihoods of indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation and within the boundaries of which traditional economic activities and related types of sustainable environmental management are allowed.

The ban on walks was finally legally formalized by order of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia) dated March 26, 2012 N 82 “On approval of the Regulations on the Losiny Ostrov National Park,” which determined the boundaries of the protected and specially protected natural area , where, according to paragraph 6 of Article 15 of the law as amended in 2010), the presence of unauthorized persons without the consent of the administration was prohibited.

Liability for violations for individuals is established by Art. 8.39 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation in the amount of 3,000 rubles. up to 4000 rub.

On August 3, 2018, the Dumaks adopted further amendments to 33-FZ on protected areas, which came into force on September 1, 2018.

At the same time, since 2018, the law has decoupled the visiting regime from zoning boundaries and allowed people to charge fees for being everywhere. The parks actually set the exclusion zones and fees for visiting themselves (the ministry approves the boundaries and determines the amount and procedure for payment) .

All these amendments were made solely so that it would be possible to charge a fee for visits to ANY zones of national parks, and now the visiting regime will be determined by the regulations on protected areas, and not written down in the law, which opens up a wide field for the arbitrary establishment of boundaries and fees not in our favor.

Article 5.1. Procedure for visiting specially protected natural areas

1. Visits by individuals to specially protected natural areas are carried out in accordance with the special protection regime established for such territories.

2. Individuals who do not live in populated areas located within the boundaries of specially protected natural areas can visit such areas free of charge or for a fee. The procedure for determining the specified fee, as well as cases of exemption from charging the fee, are established by the Government of the Russian Federation.";

Article 15. Regime of special protection of territories of national parks

6. Stay of individuals on the territory of the national park allowed only with permission the federal state budgetary institution managing the national park, or the federal executive body in charge of the national park, with the exception of cases of stay in the national park by individuals who are employees of the federal state budgetary institution managing the national park, officials of the federal executive body the authorities in charge of the national park, individuals living on the territory of the national park, including persons belonging to the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation, as well as in other cases established by the regulations on such a national park.
For visits by individuals to national parks(except for areas located within the boundaries of populated areas) for the purposes of tourism and recreation by federal state budgetary institutions managing national parks, a fee applies.

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As you can see, now the ban on visiting and the fee for being there is untied from the zoning purpose (recreational, specially protected, reserved, economic) and the ban can be placed everywhere. Ban at all or only without payment. Thus, now it is necessary to study the regulations on each national park separately. The law also contains information about nature reserves and reserves - separately for each type of protected area, what is not allowed and what is possible.

By the way, look at the passage from 15.6: “as well as in other cases established by the regulations on such a national park.”

What is it about? What does it refer to? "In other cases" Is it possible to charge a fee for everything or waive the fee? How our people love.... (insert the missing word) rubbery, vague formulations.

On the new LO website they don’t have ANYTHING written about this. In the meantime, you can stay on Losiny Island without the risk of a fine (without permission or payment), as I understand it, only in the recreational area.

A detailed study of the regulations on the LO says the opposite, but it is old, back in 2012, the regulations there allow it to be located in recreational and economic zones and a cultural heritage zone, but the inspectors do not seem to pay attention to this fact, judging by the protocols that they draw up :

a fine for a car on a road that, according to the cadastre, is “public”;

a fine for being on the territory of a holiday village for a person who does not live there. The village itself is an enclave within a specially protected zone;

attempts to seize (often successful) cameras, bicycles and skis as tools for illegal use of natural resources and/or as an interim measure.

I didn't come up with all this. People fall under the skating rink of the law, find my article and consult.

Regulations on the Losiny Ostrov National Park (from 2012). Excerpts that concern tourists

9. Any activity that could cause damage is prohibited on the territory of the national park. natural complexes and objects of flora and fauna, cultural and historical objects and which contradicts the goals and objectives of the national park, including:
6) timber harvesting (with the exception of timber harvesting by citizens for their own needs);
7) preparation of resin;
8) commercial, amateur and sport hunting;
9) industrial fishing;
10) procurement of forest resources suitable for consumption (edible forest resources), other non-timber forest resources (with the exception of the procurement of such resources by citizens for their own needs);
11) activities that entail a violation of the living conditions of flora and fauna;

16) organization of mass sports and entertainment events, organization of tourist stops and lighting fires outside designated areas;
18) being with firearms, pneumatic and throwing weapons, traps and other hunting tools, including assembled hunting firearms on public roads, as well as with products of obtaining objects of the animal world and tools for extracting (catching) aquatic biological resources, except cases related to the implementation of sport and recreational fishing in accordance with these Regulations
23) washing vehicles on the banks of water bodies;
24) passage and parking of motor vehicles outside public roads and places specially provided for this, passage and parking of ships and other floating craft outside public waterways and places specially provided for this (except for cases related to the functioning of the national park and the use of vehicles owners, owners and users of land plots located within the boundaries of the national park);
25) destruction and damage to notices, barriers, stands, boundary poles and other information signs and signs, equipped ecological trails and recreation areas, buildings on the territory of the national park, as well as the property of the Institution, writing inscriptions and signs on boulders, rock outcrops and historical -cultural sites;
28) walking dogs without a leash;
29) actions leading to disturbance of wild animals.
Auto. - This includes inspectors and PHOTOGRAPHING!!! Attempts are being made to confiscate the camera as a means of ILLEGAL USE OF NATURE!

Zoning of the park.

10.1. protected area, intended to preserve the natural environment in its natural state and within its boundaries, which is prohibited from carrying out any economic activity.
Within the protected area
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Stay on the territory of a protected area of a national park for citizens who are not employees of the Institution, or officials of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia and Rosprirodnadzor, is allowed only if they have permission from the Institution or the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia.
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10.2. Specially protected area, designed to preserve the natural environment in its natural state and within the boundaries of which excursions and visits for educational tourism are allowed.
Within a specially protected zone d

stay of citizens outside public roads and specially designated routes;

construction of buildings and structures intended to accommodate visitors to the national park, as well as arrangement and equipment of overnight parking;

procurement and collection by citizens of non-timber forest resources, food forest resources and medicinal plants for their own needs, procurement of wood by citizens for their own needs.

In a specially protected area the following are allowed:

Staying in the territory of a specially protected zone of the national park of citizens, who are not employees of the Institution, or officials of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia and Rosprirodnadzor, allowed only if they have permission from the Institution or the Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia.

10.3. Recreational area, designed to provide and implement recreational activities, the development of physical culture and sports, as well as the placement of tourism industry facilities, museums and information centers.
Within the recreational zone d In addition to the restrictions listed in paragraph 9 of these Regulations, the following are prohibited:

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In the recreational area the following are allowed:

sport and recreational fishing;

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organization and arrangement of excursion ecological trails and routes, observation platforms, tourist stops and recreation areas;

construction, reconstruction and operation of guest houses and other recreational infrastructure facilities;

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work on comprehensive landscaping of the territory.

10.4. Cultural Heritage Protection Zone(historical and cultural monuments) of the peoples of the Russian Federation, intended for the preservation of these objects and within the boundaries of which it is allowed to carry out the activities necessary for their preservation, as well as recreational activities.
Within the zone of protection of cultural heritage sites (historical and cultural monuments) of the peoples of the Russian Federation In addition to the restrictions listed in paragraph 9 of these Regulations, the following are prohibited:

rest and overnight stay outside the designated places;

In the protection zone of historical and cultural objects the following are allowed:
sport and recreational fishing;

procurement and collection by citizens of non-timber forest resources, food forest resources and medicinal plants for their own needs;

placement of museums and information centers of the Institution, including those with open-air exhibitions;
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restoration, repair and museumification of historical and cultural objects;

carrying out work to restore and maintain priority cultural and landscape complexes in their traditional state.
10.5. Economic zone, intended to carry out activities aimed at ensuring the functioning of the Institution and the life of citizens living in the territory of the national park.
In the economic zone the following are allowed:

sport and recreational fishing;

procurement and collection by citizens of non-timber forest resources, food forest resources and medicinal plants for their own needs;
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organization and arrangement of excursion ecological trails and routes;

placement of museums and information centers of the Institution, including those with open-air exhibitions;

placement of hives and apiaries in areas specifically designated by the Institution;

works on comprehensive landscaping of the territory;

development of folk and artistic crafts and related types of use of natural resources that do not contradict the special protection regime;
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construction, reconstruction, repair and operation of roads, pipelines, power lines and other linear facilities related to the functioning of the national park and ensuring the functioning of settlements located within its boundaries;

other types of activities not prohibited by paragraph 9 of these Regulations.

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12. The composition and description of the functional zones of the national park is given in Appendix 1, a map diagram of the functional zoning of the territory of the national park is in Appendix 2.
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22. The boundaries of the national park are marked on the ground with special warning and information signs along the perimeter of the boundaries of its territory.

So we lost Elk Island.

With all this bacchanalia of legality and legislative chaos on the new LO website (2018), I could not find anything about prohibitions. Oh, this should be written large on the main page: avoid the park - you will be fined.

A particularly acute sense of injustice and resentment is caused by the suddenness of insane demands and selective punishment. Previously it was possible, but now it is impossible, in this direction the enraged printer continuously prints corrections. However, ignorance does not liberate. Only a few out of thousands are fined. It is quite normal to see such a picture - inspectors are drawing up a report for a barbecue, and within sight there are still barbecues burning, they are drawing up a report for a fishing rod, and there are still fishermen sitting nearby, and so on. This is how our system works - you should always be able to attract something.

National pack "Meshchersky"

The picture there became especially depressing with the adoption of an amendment to the law on protected areas on the possibility of charging a fee simply for being on the territory in 2012, and with the publication of clarifications from the Ministry of Natural Resources in 2015. And in 2016, “monetary terror” began against summer residents and tourists.

In this national park, almost everything except public roads and the territories of populated areas is classified as a “specially protected zone”, where a fine is charged for staying without a paid permit. As a result, dozens of settlements turned out to be enclaves in forbidden territory, where it is impossible to stay without paying, and for everything else (fires, motor vehicles, boats, collecting wild plants, etc. a fine is charged).

Local residents who have a residence permit are currently issued a free permit for 3 months, which must be renewed regularly, otherwise they will be fined. I still don’t understand what to do for owners who are not registered. Ordinary summer residents definitely need to pay about 1,770 rubles per person per month if they want not to be locked within the borders of their village (the spring 2018 price tag), but to be able to go out into the forest. We count - 3 people for 4 months = 21240 for the right to leave the house. "Genocide" of summer residents.

I would like to note that about 5,000 people live there with registration, not counting Spas-Klepikov, and there are up to 50,000-100,000 summer residents. So consider it.

The boundaries of protected areas are set this way specifically in order to collect more money, since the law assigns the definition of boundaries to the national parks themselves, which the Ministry of Natural Resources only approves.

We wanted the best, but it turned out as always.

In this regard, I have additional proposals that resolve the issue not only for “Losiny Ostrov” but also in general in the interests of citizens.

Immediately amend the law and cancel sanctions and fees for being in a “specially protected zone” of a protected area without permission from the administration. Sanctions for “staying without permission,” as well as payment for being present, will be retained only for the “reserved area.”

Establish a special regime for visiting a “specially protected area” that does not prohibit walking, biking, or skiing there, and sanctions for violations thereof, which must be further specified in the law (prohibition of setting up tents, making fires, collecting wild plants, etc. ).

Adopt regulations (rules) in the status of a zoning law for protected areas in order to avoid the arbitrariness of park administrations in these matters. The regulations must take into account both the interests of citizens and the interests of nature conservation.

Introduce a moratorium on changing the boundaries of zones in protected areas until the adoption of zoning regulations.

If you were unable to avoid meeting with inspectors, and you were caught staying in a protected area, i.e. violated Art. 8.39 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, do not try to explain anything to government inspectors on the spot, hoping that the misunderstanding will be cleared up. They have one task - to sew up an administrative file for you. Therefore, in no case make their task easier by arguing with them, and God forbid you resist the authorities or offer a bribe. This will only make their job easier. Remember. Inspectors do not determine your guilt or decide on punishment. They will only record what seems to them to be an offense, so there is nothing to talk to them about. In the first instance, the decision is made by the administrative commission.

There is no need to try to solve everything on the spot, there is no need to succumb to the inspectors’ tricks, but do everything possible so that later, precisely later - in court, there will be as many grounds as possible to protest the decision of the administrative commission. To do this you must solve two problems.

First. Collect (remember or better record) as much information as possible about your alleged or real offense.

Second. Try to make sure that the inspectors “mess up” somewhere when drawing up the protocol. This may help you later.

So, let's begin. You were stopped. The inspector muttered something, waving a book in front of your nose. Politely ask him to show you the document for a longer time, ask for permission to photograph it, if they refuse, then write down (he cannot forbid you to do this) all the identification data.

While he is drawing up the protocol, do not interfere with its preparation, but do not help either, use Article 51 of the Constitution, and do not give any explanations.

When the protocol is drawn up, you will be asked to sign in seven places, three of which are very important. Do not sign without understanding the meaning of what you are signing for. When you write in the protocol, do not warn the inspectors in advance that you are going to write there.

What loopholes are there to then not pay the fine:

you can prove that there were no warning signs;

you can prove that you were not on the territory of a protected area, but in a populated area or public road or in an economic zone; From 2018 it will not work. (A man here went to look at a house for sale in the dachas on the territory of “Losiny Ostrov” - he didn’t get there. Protocol and fine. More details in (Legal certificate)

the description (map and diagram) of the crime scene does not correspond to the photographic materials. For example, in the protocol, the 1st cell of the 4th quarter of the Losinopogonny Forest Park is a dense forest, but in the photo you can see asphalt and the buildings of a former biological station or stable, and this is a recreational area;

the protocol was drawn up with formal violations (for example, rights were not explained).

1. The first point is a signature stating that your rights and the meaning of all articles of the Code of Administrative Offenses have been explained to you. relevant to the case. If something has not been explained to you, do not sign just like that. Write what exactly was not explained to you, for example, I was not explained the procedure for appealing the decision of the administrative commission and the judicial body was not named (its address and operating procedure), and sign.

Now, after you wrote this, the inspectors need to look for witnesses and explain everything to you again in their presence with the appropriate documentation. If you don’t do this, then in court you can win on formal grounds.

2. Second point. Explanation of the face. Write, for example, “at the time of my following the route from the village of Pogonny to the village of Druzhba, in fact, on the ground, the territory of the protected area was not properly marked - there was not a single sign prohibiting being there”, and sign. If you had a DVR, write here that " Video filming was made along the route - a petition for inclusion is attached".

3. “I ask that the above-mentioned case of an administrative offense be considered without my participation.” There you MUST write “I do not give permission to consider this administrative case in my absence, I ask that you duly notify me of the time and place of the review,” and sign. Do not leave the field blank. If the case is resolved without you, you will not have time to appeal it. You are given 10 days to appeal the decision of the administrative commission in court. When it arrives to you by mail, it will be too late to appeal - this is the first thing.

Secondly. There is one more nonsense (nuance) why you need to personally attend the administrative commission - a sent notice of a fine is considered received. And failure to pay within 60 days may result in arrest.

According to paragraph 6 of the Resolution of the Plenum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation of March 24, 2005 No. 5, the person in respect of whom the proceedings are being conducted is considered to have been notified of the time and place of the trial even in the case when a message about absence of the addressee at the specified address, that the person does not actually live at this address or has refused to receive the postal item, as well as in the case of the return of the postal item with a mark indicating the expiration of the storage period, if the provisions of the Special Conditions for Reception, Delivery, Storage and return of postal items of the "Judicial" category, approved by order of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Russian Post" dated August 31, 2005 N 343.
(as amended by the Resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated December 19, 2013 N 40). Accordingly, Art. 20.25 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation is applicable.

When inspectors say that it doesn’t matter, that there are no signs prohibiting the presence, like they were there and there are documents that they were installed - this is nonsense. In relation to drivers, who, in the opinion of the police, should know which signs were installed where, the Supreme Court spoke unequivocally.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation indicated to Russian judges that drivers are not required to know all the road signs in their place of residence. The court examined the complaint of a Muscovite who was deprived of her license for stopping in the wrong place. The applicant indicated that she could not see the sign prohibiting parking, but the courts considered her arguments questionable, since the incident occurred in the area where she permanently resides. The Supreme Court considered this position to be erroneous and acquitted the owner of the car.
“The judge of the Kuzminsky Court of Moscow in his decision, among other things, proceeded from the fact that this section of the road and the places where road signs were installed cannot be unknown to N.A. Shcherbinina, who is a permanent resident of the municipal area. Such conclusions of the judge from the provisions of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation and the Traffic Rules, approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of October 23, 1993 No. 1090, do not follow,” the court ruled.
The higher court was also surprised by the fact that the Moscow City Court twice did not pay attention to such an illegal argument and left the decision on the fine in force. The Supreme Court was also struck by the reluctance of the judges to check the main subject of the dispute - whether the road sign could or could not be visible.

Unfortunately, in our law enforcement practice, the analogy of law and the analogy of law are not applied by the courts.
And in the case of LO, it may be necessary to go to the Supreme Court, if anything

Usually, at the commission and in the first court, almost 100% of administrative cases are lost. Our only hope is in the Moscow City Court or the Supreme Court, if the documents are correctly collected and prepared...

If you are planning to confiscate a bicycle or skis or a camera as an interim measure, do not argue whether the bicycle or skis are an instrument of illegal use of natural resources and whether they are subject to confiscation or should be confiscated as an interim measure. Simply demand the presence of witnesses and packing of the seized items in bags that must be sealed with an unbreakable seal; the seal number must be included in the seizure report. Refer to the fact that the law requires, according to Article 27.10 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, paragraph 9, “if necessary, seized items and documents are packed and sealed on the spot.
Warn that in any case, the next day you will appeal the seizure protocol in court (whether on formal grounds - it is not sealed, or on the grounds that a bicycle or skis are not a tool for illegal use of natural resources, unlike mechanical vehicles, and are not subject to security seizure).

After you receive the seizure protocol, write immediately to the electronic reception of the prosecutor's office and to the State Inspectorate for Nature Protection in the Central Federal District (if it occurs in Moscow). Be sure to check the name in the protocol and the name of the inspector who issues the fine. This may help you. Take a photo of the car in which the employees arrived, write down your name, or remember it. When you come to the administrative commission, be sure to find a stand with information about which inspector was on duty and when. An incident may occur, and the inspector in question was not on duty that day, and this is the basis for canceling the administrative punishment.

After you sign all the protocols (about the offense and, possibly, about the seizure), give the inspectors a surprise.

Submit a written request to familiarize yourself with all the case materials on the spot and provide you with copies of them, namely the violation diagram (this is a map indicating, for example, the cell and the block where you were detained), photo and video recording materials. Please know that according to the law, “a petition must be submitted in writing and is subject to immediate consideration” (Article 24.4 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). You give the inspector the petition and its copies (can be by hand), ask them to write on the copy: “the petition was accepted for consideration by the inspector such and such, then and so.”

If you had a video recorder, then either immediately or later, in the administrative commission or in court, submit a written request to include your video materials in the case. Samples, of which there are many on the Internet on the topic of car accidents, are easy to adapt to our case. You will have to draw up a petition and attachments: a CD-R disk with the inscription “Route to follow through the protected areas”, a printout of the catalog of files on the disk, a storyboard of the video recording - XX fragments on 1 sheet.

Video recording will not be enough in court. Look for witnesses who can confirm that there were no prohibitory signs along your route. Save the witnesses for the trial, and come to the administrative commission with a request to include your video materials.

If a fine is imposed by the administrative commission, go to court. Prepare a statement of claim and request to call witnesses.

Application example

Petition

inspector.....

I, full name, am the person against whom proceedings are being conducted for an administrative offense under Art. 8.39 Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. In accordance with Part 1 of Art. 25.1 and art. 24.4 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, I ask that you give me the opportunity to familiarize myself with the materials of the case of an administrative offense and make copies of the case materials.

Cases from life

The Internet is not only useful, but also harmful

This story, which happened in 2016, received a great response in the cycling community. In fact, this was the first case of a fine for being on Losiny Island, after which tourists learned about the new prohibitions.

It was an organized advertising ride led by velogide Nina Sh. from the MnogoTrop website, the purpose of which was to promote the mobile application of the same name. The ride was announced not only on the MnogoTrop website, which was completely unknown then (as it is now), but also on other more well-known resources (Katushkin).

The announcement about the trip to Katushkin was like this (here in abbreviation):

May 22, 2016 MOOSK RIDE 11:00
FORMAT: walking;
DISTANCE: 30km
We continue our relay of rides through the parks from the MnogoTrop team! This time we will go to the unique Elk Island National Park. We'll start the ride within the city limits of Moscow and then drive beyond the Moscow Ring Road.
.....
And we continue test the MnogoTrop application and win prizes. Download the application to your smartphone and come to the start .
- run a route at an event, rate it after the bike ride, create your own routes, and get prizes!
- participate and win!

The park administration, it turns out, reads specialized websites to increase the efficiency of collecting fines. The inspectors knew about the upcoming ride, but the exact track was not published, as was the movement schedule, so a full-fledged military operation was organized with 10 ambush points where inspectors were on duty. One of the points, which was considered unpromising (near paid fishing), and was almost excluded from the capture plan, worked.

On the Velomania forum, there were suggestions that some forum users hand over groups of tourists to inspectors for a fee: “Oh, I was surprised. I immediately hinted that someone on this forum, for a fee, is engaged in bringing cycling groups to the inspectors. And more than one person. My former colleague was boasted of this at the Federal State Budgetary Institution last year (2016." In this particular case, it is not clear what actually happened. The manager personally told me that according to the inspectors, they learned about the ride from the Internet. On the other hand, there is no reason for them to hand over informants.

They detained the entire group of about 30 people, and wanted to fine everyone for being there, and the legal entity MnogoTrop for organizing a mass sports event without approval. This raid ended with a compromise - two fines only for the manager as an individual. One for organizing a mass sports event 3500 rubles, the other for finding 3500 rubles.

The manager’s bicycle was also confiscated as an interim measure. This is how the park explained the need to confiscate the bicycle. In my opinion, this is a piece of writing, not justification.

“The administration of the Losiny Ostrov National Park has considered your appeal dated May 30, 2016, received by email and reports the following.
In accordance with Article 27.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, measures have been taken to ensure the proceedings in the case of an administrative offense, including a procedure in accordance with Part 1 of Article 27.10 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for the seizure of a bicycle that was an instrument for committing an administrative offense, which is relevant evidence in the case of an administrative offense and discovered at the scene of an offense on the territory of a national park"

Since the reel was an advertising commercial one, it was actually organized by a legal entity, the director did not involve participants as witnesses at the administrative commission that the restricted area was not properly marked on the ground. For the same reason, the manager did not appeal the decision of the administrative commission in the courts. After paying the fines, the bike was eventually returned.

From the corrected description of the route after the raid on the Many Trails website: “A visit to the specially protected area of the Losiny Ostrov National Park must be agreed in advance with the park administration!”

The founder of the site, Valery Zheleznov, writes: “Judging by our experience of communicating with them, it (to agree on a route) is quite possible, but it is unreasonably long and labor-intensive. You have to write an official letter almost a month in advance, plus go to them to negotiate. That is, theoretically everything is possible, but practically - not advisable."

We continue to write about Moscow highways. Today we will talk about two neighboring tracks, one of which is located in Sokolniki Park, and the second in Losinny Island.

Platform "Malenkovskaya"

The track is new. Appeared in Sokolniki only this winter.

Plan of Sokolniki Park. Everything marked with blue lines, as written in the map legend, are ski slopes. Hard to believe. At that moment I thought these were ski trails. As it turned out later, it was so!

The uppermost part of the park plan, in which the ski circle is located.

The first thing I saw was a compacted path on which two ski tracks were cut. Continuing along it, I came to what could be called a ski slope. But here too there was the same picture: a compacted road surface and two ski tracks on it.

After driving several laps and finally deciding on the direction of the circle, it became clear that this was the only descent on the circle.

And this is the only climb on the circle. The circle itself feels like... I rode without devices, it is 3.5 km. Completely flat with one short and gentle ascent and approximately the same gentle and short descent.

The route has the typical problems of all routes within Moscow. They try to drive a car along them and this leaves ruts....

... and it’s also dirty (not only from twigs, but also from household garbage), people walk on it, walk dogs and walk with strollers. At the same time, there is not a single sign anywhere indicating that this is a ski slope.

Conclusion:

Narrow for a skate (only 210-215 cm wide) and the presence of two cut ski tracks around the entire circle makes it completely unsuitable for a skate. But if you live nearby and are preparing for skiclassic competitions, then this route is just right for you. In all other cases, especially if there is a choice of better places for skiing, I advise you to choose other places.

At the neighboring station in the Yaroslavl direction, the route has existed for several years. And it has established itself as a good circle with a length of 2.5 km with the presence of relief. There are as many as 7 climbs and lifts on the circle! But that was earlier...

Previously, there was a descent on this alley. Now there is nothing but a footpath.

One of the climbs. As you can see, it was only walked through once.

In many places where there used to be descents or ascents, pine trees are now planted. Apparently, this is one of the reasons why the track is not being prepared now.

Now the circle is a very flat circle less than 1 km long. The photo was taken at the highest point of the circle. Where the farthest power line poles are located is the opposite side of the circle.

The beginning of the draft. It is about 300 meters long and goes a little further than the power pole.

Conclusion:

The conclusion is also not funny and is similar to the one that applies to the route near the Malenkovskaya platform. If you have the opportunity to choose a better place to train, then choose that place. But even on this route there are fans of skating. But this route has one very big plus or minus, it depends on your personal opinion on the following fact.

It is very easy to meet moose here...

...and not just one, but sometimes three at once...

...and sometimes even fighting each other. By the way, I wonder whose phantom is still captured in this photo! =)))

Have I told you that I am depressed? Everything falls out of hand and nothing makes you happy. Even proven remedies don't help.
What did the poet Pushkin advise us “ours”? “Open a bottle of champagne or re-read The Marriage of Figaro.” Good advice, I like it.
Well, champagne gives me, sorry, winds in my stomach. And a headache. I prefer mulled wine to this.
Reading The Marriage of Figaro successfully replaced going to the theater. Usually in operetta. Or to the opera house. To some funny play, not just Figaro.
And here are the results of the “treatment”.
Mulled wine (more precisely, wine) makes my stomach hurt. With enviable consistency.
The performance does not have the same impression as usual. Although we listened to Donizetti's "Elisir of Love". The conclusions after the theater are unusual and even non-standard. Girls' ones. They express themselves in a song (I sing when I’m sad) “I’m good, I’m good, but I don’t dress well.”
Damn, all the proven products are over the counter.

Let me go skiing. This:
1) free of charge,
2) useful for shaking a fat butt eaten over the holidays,
3) usually lifts the mood.
On Sunday morning I looked out the window and it was snowing there. Just what you need! Because from my house to Losiny Island is 2.5 km. Pedestrian with skis in hands is long and disgusting. And when there is snow, you can ski straight along the Yauza. I hope the path hasn't been cleared yet! And the walkers did not trample it.
I take my skis and camera and decide to go to the end of the Abramtsevo clearing. See what's there. Although, in truth, I know that. It ends at the Moscow ring road.
So, I invite you to a ski trip to LO, which translates as “Elk Island”. Let's go!

But first I'll tell you a little about geographical location and about stories Losiny Ostrov.

Geography.
"Losiny Ostrov" is located in the northeast of Moscow. Part of it, a little less than a third, is located within the city. The rest is in the near Moscow region. “Losiny Ostrov” begins from Sokolniki Park and continues beyond the Moscow Ring Road to Mytishchi, Korolev, Shchelkovo and Balashikha, forming a kind of green wedge between Yaroslavskoye and Shchelkovskoye highways. The greatest length from west to east is 22 km, from north to south 10 km. It consists of six forest parks: two of them, Yauzsky and Losinoostrovsky, are located within the city, the rest - Mytishchi, Alekseevsky, Losinopogonny, Shchelkovsky - in the region.
On the territory of the city, the Leningrad Region forms, as it were, a forest triangle, the apex of which abuts Sokolniki, on one side - the Yaroslavskoe highway and residential areas of the Yaroslavsky district, the other side - Shchelkovskoe highway, the Borogrodskoye and Golyanovo districts, and the third side - MKAD. I won’t talk about the castle now, I’ve never skied there, I’ve only ridden a bike a couple of times
You can see the area on the map

Story.
Why is "Losiny Ostrov" called that? “Island,” in the hunting sense of the word, was a forest in the middle of a field. Hound hunting was possible in places where forest and field alternate - hounds, chasing an animal in the forest, drive it out onto the field, and here greyhounds come into play. "Moose" - due to the abundance of these animals. They still meet now. I myself saw moose in the clearing where the power lines were. Several times, last winter and the winter before last.
The first documentary mention of the area, beyond which by the beginning of the 18th century. The name “Losiny Ostrov” was established and dates back to 1339. The history of this forest area with grand-ducal and royal hunts is especially connected with the name of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. “The Sovereign's Reserved Grove,” as this forest area was once called, was strictly guarded. A caught violator of the environmental regime was severely punished. Thanks to these measures, the centuries-old forests of the Island until the 19th century. remained virtually untouched.
In 1842, the first forest management in Russia was carried out here, which marked the beginning of the scientific organization of forestry, and the idea of creating a national park was first expressed by scientists in 1909. In 1934, Losiny Ostrov was included in the 50-kilometer “green belt” around Moscow. Since 1983, Leningrad Region has been a national park.

Well, I got carried away. So, let's go skiing along the Yauza.

To my right is Yauza, behind it is Prospekt Mira, in the distance is a monument" Worker and collective farmer"See?
Left - Rostokinsky aqueduct. Which in itself is also a historical monument. Here he is:

Its construction began in 1780, during the reign of Catherine II, and lasted 25 years. It was completed and launched only in 1804. This construction cost 1 million 648 thousand rubles (huge money at that time), which is why it was popularly nicknamed the “Millionth Bridge”. In fact, an aqueduct is an ordinary water conduit in the form of a bridge over the Yauza River. This is a preserved part of such a global structure as the Mytishchi gravity water supply system. It can be called the first water supply system in Russia; before that there was only a small water supply system in the Kremlin. It is interesting that the water supply system was gravity-flowing, namely, the water flowed on its own due to the difference in altitude. The total length of the water pipeline reached 26 km. Water was supplied, as you guessed it, from the Mytishchi Springs to Moscow. There were 5 aqueducts in the water supply system; only Rostokinsky has survived to this day.

Oh, something brought me back into the wilds of local lore. I invited you to ski, not on an excursion. We pass into the “aqueduct” arch.
There is a park area along the Yauza; by the way, it was renovated relatively recently. In the 90s there were self-grabbing vegetable gardens, bushes and gullies. And now the paths and overall splendor. Which is spoiled by no one's dogs from nearby garages. They might bite. But now they are gone. But there are a lot of local residents walking, with and without children. The path will soon be trampled down and it will be possible to ski only with a skate, but I don’t know how. While it's snowing, we need to hurry. Here is the railway bridge. The Yaroslavl railway crosses the Yauza. We're under the bridge. And here it is, the forest. We leave the river to the left. We cross a small high-voltage line.

There are two high-voltage lines in the Leningrad Region, “big” and “small”. It was also cut by two ring roads, a railway and a road. The first, the Okruzhnaya railway, was the border of the city at the beginning of the 20th century, the automobile is its border now. Yes, you know that yourself.
There are also 2 main clearings. Bumazhnaya and Abramtsevskaya. Bumazhnaya runs parallel to the Yaroslavskoye Highway, Abramtsevskaya crosses it at a right angle and leads to Golyanovo. More precisely, it abuts the Moscow Ring Road, but if you turn right from it (there are many paths there), then residential areas are very close. Now I want to get to the beginning of the Abramtsevo clearing. And it starts from the Belokamennaya Okruzhny railway station. That’s where I’m going now along one of the clearings.

This part of the Leningrad Region “closest” to my home is located between the Okruzhnaya Railway and the Yauza River.

It's beautiful in the forest.

I cross Yauzskaya Alley, which is quite a highway with rare cars. A little more - and here is the Okruzhnaya railway. We are under the bridge, along which a snowplow is driving.

Behind Okruzhnaya there are dark ruins. On one side are the ruins of some kind of factory, on the other - the destroyed industrial zone of the Belokamennaya station.

It's quite scary to drive here. It always seems that some criminals or maniacs are hiding in the ruins. Although upon common reflection it is clear that there is no one. Who will sit there in the cold winter? But just in case, I only drive by on weekends. Because there are many skiers besides me. And on weekdays there is complete desertion. It's a creepy place. When my son was still a schoolboy, he hated skating there. If I called him to go on a bicycle, we went out and I turned towards the Leningrad Region, and not towards the Botanical Garden, he simply refused to go at all.
This path with ruins on the right and left is the beginning of the Abramtsevo clearing.

These are the ruins of a forester's house. Homeless people live in the former garden in the summer.
And now, leaving oncoming skiers, I move on. A little more and here is another local attraction. Mysterious railway line.

Now the rails are not visible under the fresh snow, but sometimes something walks on it. And it leads from the District Railway to a military unit hidden in the forest. You can read about it

But the path is blocked by fallen trees.

You have to climb over them.
The fence begins on the right. This is a railway hospital. Or rather, her rear. I know that there is asphalt under the snow here, which is not everywhere on the Abramtsevo clearing. Therefore, in the spring it is difficult to run and ride a bike here - it is too dirty. Where the fallen trees were, there is an area with huge puddles and knee-deep mud. There is no asphalt on this piece.
At the end of the fence you can see the Paper Clearing. Here is the crossroads where in October there was a start (and starting town) of the first IRC club marathon - Elk Island. I’ll tell you for those who don’t know: IRC is the “Internet Running Club” in which I am a member. That’s why I took part in that marathon as a volunteer assistant.
So, we crossed the Paper Clearing and moved on. After some time, a fence begins on the left. This is another hospital, popularly called “Kremlevka”.
There is a bus stop near her entrance. I'm hitting the asphalt on my skis. There is simply no further ski track. Because Golyanovo is already close and local residents, most of them pensioners, are walking back and forth along the path.

The audience is very interesting. For example, old men in square hats with earflaps and sheepskin coats “hello, eighties”, grannies in long “triangular” fur coats. They walk slowly, shifting from foot to foot. I also saw an old man walking briskly with two clubs in his hands. To my question, “what is this?” the grandfather cheerfully shouted: “Now I walk in a new way! It’s called Nordic walking!”
And here is the big high voltage.

Houses in the distance - this is Golyanovo.
I cross it. I need it straight all the time. Here I met two plump women walking briskly with ski poles in their hands. To my question “where are the skis?” they cheerfully replied that “Skiing will come later. You know, like in the joke, when you learn to swim, then they will pour water into the pool!” Everything is clear, they also do “Nordic walking”. Having overtaken the cheerful women, I drove on. And here is the end of the road. The Abramtsevo clearing ends at the Moscow Ring Road.

And the ski track turns right, to Golyanovo. There is somewhere there a passage through the ring road, through which you can get to Abramtsevo.

But I need it back. Because this walk took longer than I expected. I've been riding for 2 hours 40 minutes now. Because I often stopped to take photos, I wasn’t driving too fast, and the path almost always had a slight uphill slope. This is especially noticeable when you ride a bicycle along the Abramtsevo clearing in the summer.
I drove home noticeably faster. In an hour and a half. Because, firstly, she didn’t stop. And secondly, she was in a hurry to get there before dark. And yet twilight found me at the Rostokinsky aqueduct. Which has a great slide. Now you can rent a donut there and ride for your own pleasure.

One last push through Mira Avenue - and I’m home. Finally. I rode 24 km. Tired. I exhale: “Fuuuhhh.”
Did you enjoy the walk?
Have you skied this winter?

We are lucky - we live within walking distance from Losiny Ostrov. Once you leave the house and walk towards Moscow along the canal, in 10 minutes you find yourself in a wonderful Russian forest. This forest became a reserve from the beginning of the 15th century, as it was intended for royal hunts. That is, since those distant times it seems to have been preserved in its original form.
But this is not entirely true - the forest on Losiny Island was cut down during the Second World War, in the 50-70s peat was being mined at the headwaters of the Yauza, and in recent years it has suffered greatly from the invasion of spruce areas by the bark beetle. And yet our Elk Island, now a national park, is beautiful. We love going there at any time of the year.
In winter, when a stable snow cover is established, you can ski through the forest.
Our route starts almost from Korolev Avenue. We get on our skis near the canal and go into the forest.

On the way you have to cross Pionerskaya Street. An underground passage would be useful here, since car traffic on the street is intense, and there are quite a lot of skiers crossing the roadway. Here in the ski town of Söll in Austria, with much less traffic, there is a passage under the road. But we have not yet grown to such comfort. You have to take off your skis and, somehow, sometimes risking your life, cross the road. It's okay, we're familiar.
We finally get on the ski track and move towards the forest. Gradually, the forest becomes denser, and there are fewer and fewer people, people walking with strollers, walking dogs, children with sleds, etc. disappear. First there is a forested park area, in which our fellow citizens love to have picnics with barbecue. This is not bad, but the fact that rubbish remains after this is not good. On the sides of the canal there are multi-storey buildings, which are gradually moving further and further. So, this year, on the left side, in place of the dacha plots, an entire microdistrict suddenly appeared.
Pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists always walk along the main road, which resembles an avenue and leads to a large reservoir, the “Quarry” or “Torfyanka”. ATVs, which have become more and more numerous in recent years, are also a nuisance. They don’t make enough noise and the gasoline stench, but they also plow up the entire ski track with their big wheels.
But we usually turn right.

It is quiet here and there are almost no skiers. Our goal is the ranger's cordon, which belongs to the national park, in which and near which sika deer concentrate in winter. We call this “going to the deer.”
First we walk along a narrow canal, which in some places widens to quite decent sizes. We call the widest area “Beaver Lake” because along its shores there are many trees gnawed and felled by beavers.

Along the way we always visit a small gray walnut tree, an American relative of the walnut. How the nut got here is a mystery. But now he has grown up and feels good, maybe he will grow up and produce nuts. True, last year the bark of the nut was chewed by some hungry elk. But nothing, the tree recovered over the summer, and the wound healed.

The channel gradually widens, and we come out onto a wide stretch formed by the overflowing Yauza.

In summer it is a surface of water, and in winter it is just a flat snow-covered place. Behind this stretch the deer crowd. At the cordon, they are apparently fed, no one bothers them there, so they gather in a huge herd for the winter.

Whenever we came here on skis, we always found them here.
The deer allow us to get quite close to them, but still they are afraid of us, strangers, and when we approach a certain distance they run away - back to the cordon or into the forest.
We fed them beets, bread and potatoes. But I think they feel good even without our modest offerings.
Once a huntsman chased us away on a snowmobile and swore that we were scaring the animals. I think he scared them much more with his roaring snowmobile. But usually there are no people near the deer. Unless some skiers, naturalists like us, wander in.
Further towards the forest, behind a fence, we once saw a family of moose. But then, no matter how many times they came, they were no longer there.
And even further in the forest, near a feeder with hay, we saw a flock of wild boars several times. These animals will be worse than deer. That's why we didn't get close to them. Yes, they themselves are not eager to meet us: as soon as they see us, they immediately hide in the forest.
After such a visit to the free zoo, we go home happy. We usually walk past the national park office with a stable. You can ride a horse there. Last year we went there and found out how much it cost to ride a horse. Then this pleasure cost 800 rubles. This year there will probably be more. But we are not going to go on a horseback ride; it is still in our plans.
This route around Losiny Ostrov takes 3-4 hours and gives us great pleasure. And we have many other routes!