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Kovalevsky Forest

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89% trees around it and 173 species recorded.

72Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopy

  • trees within 3 km89%
  • wild within 10 km76%
  • species recorded173

The forest around

89% 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 88%Grassland 5%Wetland 0%Water 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 5%Trees 89%Grassland 3%Water 1%Cropland 0%Built-up 6%Trees 71%Grassland 10%Wetland 0%Water 1%Bare ground 1%Cropland 3%Built-up 14%Trees 56%Shrubland 0%Grassland 11%Wetland 1%Water 1%Bare ground 0%Cropland 4%Built-up 25%89%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km88%
  • 1–3 km89%
  • 3–6 km71%
  • 6–10 km56%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees89%
  • Grassland3%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water1%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up6%

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

173 species recorded.

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

Garden yellow loosestrife
Garden yellow loosestrifeLysimachia vulgaris10 recordsLe.Loup.Gris · CC BY-SA 3.0
Queen of the meadow
Queen of the meadowFilipendula ulmaria8 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Small yellow balsam
Small yellow balsamImpatiens parviflora7 recordsAndré Karwath aka Aka · CC BY-SA 2.5
Bishop's goutweed
Bishop's goutweedAegopodium podagraria7 recordsBeko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wood Horsetail
Wood HorsetailEquisetum sylvaticum6 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Cowberry
CowberryVaccinium vitis-idaea6 recordsBartosz Cuber · CC BY-SA 3.0
Wood-sorrel
Wood-sorrelOxalis acetosella6 recordsJörg Hempel · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Wood Anemone
Wood AnemoneAnemone nemorosa5 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Tansy
TansyTanacetum vulgare5 recordsIvar Leidus · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yellow Iris
Yellow IrisIris pseudacorus5 recordsJean-Jacques MILAN · CC BY-SA 3.0
Largeleaf Avens
Largeleaf AvensGeum macrophyllum5 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY 2.5
Cow Parsley
Cow ParsleyAnthriscus sylvestris5 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

72out of 100

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

  • 89%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 76%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 173Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking in June.

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

  1. Jan-7°-12°49 mm
  2. Feb-5°-11°41 mm
  3. Mar0°-6°43 mm
  4. Apr8°0°52 mm
  5. May15°6°69 mm
  6. Jun19°11°90 mm
  7. Jul22°14°98 mm
  8. Aug20°13°98 mm
  9. Sep15°8°63 mm
  10. Oct7°2°72 mm
  11. Nov0°-3°66 mm
  12. Dec-4°-8°58 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Kovalevsky Forest.

Kovalevsky Forest is a forest in Russia.

Seen from space, 89% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 76% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

173 species have been recorded around it: 75 plants, 2 fungi, 95 birds and 1 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Garden yellow loosestrife, Queen of the meadow and Small yellow balsam.

The best time to walk is in June.

KovalevskiyLes01
Valeriy10f · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

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.

Kovalevsky Forest 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmЗаячья тропа
  • 2picnic sites within 4 km
  • 36shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 5viewpoints within 5 kmРуины "Красного замка", Озерцо с уточками and 3 more
  • 53car parks within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 km
  • 84places to stay within 10 kmНаири, Карина, Лужская and 81 more
  • 5restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 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 Kovalevsky Forest.

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.

Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Okhta Reservoir0.3 km² · 4.2 km
Darkskyas4 dark-sky places within 30 km
The Voeikov Main Geophysical ObservatoryBortle 9 · 11 kmSaint Petersburg PlanetariumBortle 9 · 14 kmObservatory of Kunstkamera, Saint PetersburgBortle 9 · 16 kmPulkovo ObservatoryBortle 8 · 29 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Lubya26 km

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

Other forests nearby.

Kovalevsky Forest

Russia

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 89%Trees
  • 76%Wild
  • 173Species

Shuvalovsky Park

Russia · 16 km

  • 52Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 62%Wild
  • 343Species

See the guide

Alexander Garden

Russia · 15 km

  • 36Forestyas Score
  • 8%Trees
  • 44%Wild
  • 892Species

See the guide

Peter the Great Botanical Garden

Russia · 13 km

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 20%Trees
  • 45%Wild
  • 201Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4225661) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,462 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 atlasesLakeyas, Darkskyas, Riveryas

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

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

beachesCoastyaFind your beach: sea temperature, sun and swimming month by month.Visit lakesLakeyasEvery lake on Earth: water temperature, ice, depth and the shore.Visit mountainsPeakyasEvery summit in 3D: summit weather, the 0 °C line, huts and trails.Visit waterfallsCascadyasEvery waterfall: height, flow month by month and when it roars.Visit islandsIslandyasEvery island from the sea up: size, sea temperature, ferries and 3D.Visit riversRiveryasEvery river from source to sea: the journey, the flow and the basin in numbers.Visit canyonsCanyonyasEvery canyon cut to scale: depth to the floor, rim and floor temperatures, trails and viewpoints.Visit cavesCavernyasEvery cave with its real depth and length: the rock above, the temperature inside all year, and how to visit.Visit dark skiesDarkskyasWhere the night is still dark: the sky of every place, the Milky Way month by month, the Moon, eclipses and auroras.Visit
viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.Coming soonVisit
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit
forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.You are here