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Buzuluksky Bor National Park

Zarinafil · CC BY-SA 4.0

94% trees around it and 193 species recorded.

82Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWildFungi

  • trees within 3 km94%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded193
  • Altitude87 m

The forest around

94% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 97%Grassland 3%Trees 94%Grassland 4%Cropland 1%Built-up 1%Trees 97%Grassland 3%Trees 95%Grassland 3%Cropland 0%Built-up 1%94%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km97%
  • 1–3 km94%
  • 3–6 km97%
  • 6–10 km95%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees94%
  • Grassland4%
  • Cropland1%
  • Built-up1%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

193 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Eastern pasqueflower
Eastern pasqueflowerPulsatilla patens6 recordsFunkervogt · CC BY-SA 3.0
Nottingham catchfly
Nottingham catchflySilene nutans6 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5
Gypsyflower
GypsyflowerCynoglossum officinale5 recordsFornax · CC BY-SA 3.0
Greater Celandine
Greater CelandineChelidonium majus5 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Clammy campion
Clammy campionViscaria vulgaris5 recordsKurt Stüber [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bloody Crane's-bill
Bloody Crane's-billGeranium sanguineum4 recordsDidier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea4 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Thymeleaf dragonhead
Thymeleaf dragonheadDracocephalum thymiflorum4 recordshttps://www.inaturalist.org/people/convallaria1128 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Stiff hedgenettle
Stiff hedgenettleStachys recta4 recordsHectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0
Fine-leaved vetch
Fine-leaved vetchVicia tenuifolia4 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Hoary alison
Hoary alisonBerteroa incana4 recordsHardyplants at English Wikipedia · Public domain
Chenopodium album
Chenopodium albumChenopodium album4 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

82out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 94%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 193Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 87 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan-10°-17°40 mm
  2. Feb-8°-16°31 mm
  3. Mar-1°-9°40 mm
  4. Apr11°0°40 mm
  5. May20°8°42 mm
  6. Jun25°13°60 mm
  7. Jul28°16°45 mm
  8. Aug27°15°38 mm
  9. Sep20°8°40 mm
  10. Oct10°1°47 mm
  11. Nov0°-6°44 mm
  12. Dec-8°-14°38 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Buzuluksky Bor National Park.

National park in Samara and Orenburg Oblasts, Russia

Buzuluksky Bor National Park is a forest in Russia.

Seen from space, 94% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

193 species have been recorded around it: 137 plants, 53 fungi, 2 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Eastern pasqueflower, Nottingham catchfly and Gypsyflower.

The best time to walk is in May and in September.

Р. Боровка Бузулукского бора
Zarinafil · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Пионерский лагерь "Победа"campsite · 4.8 km · 2 within 10 km
  • База "Сосны"place to stay · 1.3 km · 2 within 10 km
  • Koltubanovskiynearest town · 9.2 km in a straight line
  • Kurumoch International Airport (KUF)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 141 km in a straight line

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Buzuluksky Bor National Park seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmсосна-великанша
  • 3picnic sites within 4 km
  • 4shelters and huts within 6 kmМедвежий угол., Тихая гавань., Заповедный Яр and 1 more
  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmПионерский лагерь "Победа", Шишкин лес
  • 2places to stay within 10 kmБаза "Сосны", Гостевые дома "Заповедное"
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Buzuluksky Bor National Park.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Gora Natashina6.9 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

DJI 0003-1
Кочевники · CC BY-SA 4.0
Боровая опыт. станц.
Travkin Vladimir · CC BY-SA 3.0
Бузулукский бор 1
Adrebrz · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Buzuluksky Bor National Park

Russia

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 193Species

Genko's Forest Belt

Russia · 181 km

  • 11Forestyas Score
  • 16%Trees
  • 26%Wild
  • 1Species

See the guide

Akhmerovsky Forest

Russia · 283 km

  • 43Forestyas Score
  • 70%Trees
  • 74%Wild
  • —Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4098398) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species687 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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