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Shuvalovsky Park

Vitold Muratov (Витольд Муратов) . · CC BY-SA 3.0

40% trees around it and 343 species recorded.

52Forestyas Score

Protected

  • trees within 3 km40%
  • wild within 10 km62%
  • species recorded343

The forest around

40% 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 79%Grassland 4%Water 1%Cropland 1%Built-up 14%Trees 35%Grassland 12%Wetland 1%Water 3%Bare ground 1%Cropland 14%Built-up 34%Trees 46%Grassland 8%Wetland 0%Water 2%Bare ground 2%Cropland 12%Built-up 31%Trees 54%Grassland 10%Wetland 1%Water 1%Bare ground 1%Cropland 8%Built-up 26%40%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km79%
  • 1–3 km35%
  • 3–6 km46%
  • 6–10 km54%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees35%
  • Grassland12%
  • Wetland1%
  • Water3%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland14%
  • Built-up34%

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

343 species recorded.

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

Water Smartweed
Water SmartweedPersicaria amphibia49 recordsRuppia2000 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Reed
Common ReedPhragmites australis40 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Yellow pondlily
Yellow pondlilyNuphar lutea39 recordsHans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bishop's goutweed
Bishop's goutweedAegopodium podagraria31 recordsBeko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common dandelion
Common dandelionTaraxacum officinale31 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea26 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Creeping Thistle
Creeping ThistleCirsium arvense26 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Coltsfoot
ColtsfootTussilago farfara26 recordsAndreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5
Garden yellow loosestrife
Garden yellow loosestrifeLysimachia vulgaris25 recordsLe.Loup.Gris · CC BY-SA 3.0
Floating pondweed
Floating pondweedPotamogeton natans24 recordsChristian Fischer · CC BY-SA 3.0
Japanese rose
Japanese roseRosa rugosa23 recordsVihljun · Public domain
Greater Plantain
Greater PlantainPlantago major23 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.

52out of 100

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

  • 40%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 62%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 343Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in August.

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

  1. Jan-5°-10°45 mm
  2. Feb-5°-10°38 mm
  3. Mar0°-6°40 mm
  4. Apr7°0°46 mm
  5. May15°6°60 mm
  6. Jun18°11°78 mm
  7. Jul22°14°88 mm
  8. Aug20°13°90 mm
  9. Sep15°9°58 mm
  10. Oct7°3°67 mm
  11. Nov1°-2°59 mm
  12. Dec-3°-7°54 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Shuvalovsky Park.

Park in Saint Petersburg, Russia

Shuvalovsky Park is a protected forest in Russia.

Seen from space, 40% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 62% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

343 species have been recorded around it: 225 plants, 7 fungi, 108 birds and 3 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Water Smartweed, Common Reed and Yellow pondlily.

The best time to walk is in June and in August.

Шувалово. Пруд в парке (lake in Shuvalovsky Park, Saint Petersburg, Russia) - 20100805
Vitold Muratov (Витольд Муратов) . · 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.

Shuvalovsky 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

  • 2marked trails within 5 kmЮкковские Камы, Озёрная аллея
  • 4named and notable trees within 6 kmВековая лиственница, Вековые лиственницы, Веймутова сосна and 1 more
  • 23picnic sites within 4 km
  • 67shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 6viewpoints within 5 km
  • 544car parks within 3 km
  • 3campsites within 10 kmНева
  • 81places to stay within 10 kmШувалоff, Форт-Р, АСМС and 78 more
  • 125restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Shuvalovsky 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.

Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Shuvalovsky Quarry0.3 km² · 4.5 kmLakhtinsky Razliv0.9 km² · 11 km
Darkskyas3 dark-sky places within 30 km
The Voeikov Main Geophysical ObservatoryBortle 9 · 9.6 kmSaint Petersburg PlanetariumBortle 9 · 13 kmObservatory of Kunstkamera, Saint PetersburgBortle 9 · 15 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.

0331Aa. Stone Bridgein Shuvalovsky Park
Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
0311Aa. St. Petersburg. Shuvalovsky Park
Александровы АГ · CC BY-SA 4.0
2378. St. Petersburg. Pond Shirt of Napoleon
GAlexandrova · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Shuvalovsky Park

Russia

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

Kovalevsky Forest

Russia · 16 km

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

See the guide

Alexander Garden

Russia · 15 km

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

See the guide

Peter the Great Botanical Garden

Russia · 12 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2753218) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species7,539 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

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

The family

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