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Virgin Komi Forests

Demeulenaer & Van Ginderdeuren · CC BY 3.0

0% trees around it and 7 species recorded.

34Forestyas Score

ForestWildMountain forestWorld Heritage

  • trees within 3 km0%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded7
  • Altitude1,012 m

The forest around

0% 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.

Grassland 1%Moss and lichen 76%Water 9%Bare ground 14%Grassland 4%Moss and lichen 59%Water 4%Bare ground 32%Snow and ice 1%Trees 1%Grassland 9%Moss and lichen 73%Water 1%Bare ground 15%Snow and ice 1%Trees 4%Grassland 11%Moss and lichen 69%Water 1%Bare ground 14%Snow and ice 1%0%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km0%
  • 1–3 km0%
  • 3–6 km1%
  • 6–10 km4%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees0%
  • Grassland4%
  • Moss and lichen59%
  • Water4%
  • Bare ground32%
  • Snow and ice1%

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

7 species recorded.

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

Lagotis uralensis
Lagotis uralensisLagotis uralensis3 recordsIlya Filippov · CC BY 4.0
Lapland poppy
Lapland poppyPapaver lapponicum2 recordsTakeo Goto · CC BY 2.0
Northern Jacob's-ladder
Northern Jacob's-ladderPolemonium boreale2 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Artemisia norvegica
Artemisia norvegicaArtemisia norvegica2 recordspellaea · CC BY 2.0
Moss campion
Moss campionSilene acaulis2 recordsMichael Haferkamp, aka Mikesegeln at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
Endocellion sibiricumEndocellion sibiricum2 records
Crepis chrysanthaCrepis chrysantha2 records

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

34out of 100

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

  • 0%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 7Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 1,012 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in July.

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

  1. Jan-18°-24°47 mm
  2. Feb-16°-23°42 mm
  3. Mar-10°-18°71 mm
  4. Apr-4°-12°92 mm
  5. May2°-4°114 mm
  6. Jun10°3°152 mm
  7. Jul16°8°130 mm
  8. Aug12°5°152 mm
  9. Sep5°0°136 mm
  10. Oct-3°-8°119 mm
  11. Nov-11°-16°83 mm
  12. Dec-15°-20°64 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Virgin Komi Forests.

Protected area of Russia

Virgin Komi Forests is a forest in Russia, 1,012 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 0% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

7 species have been recorded around it: 7 plants, 0 fungi, 0 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Lagotis uralensis, Lapland poppy and Northern Jacob's-ladder.

The best time to walk is in July.

Four herous01
Demeulenaer & Van Ginderdeuren · CC BY 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site
  • Стоянкаcampsite · 1.7 km · 9 within 10 km
  • Pechora Airport (PEX)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.

Virgin Komi Forests 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

  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 4viewpoints within 5 kmСмотровая на Голубое озеро and 3 more
  • 9campsites within 10 kmСтоянка, Стоянка с кострищем and 7 more
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • places to stay within 10 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 Virgin Komi Forests.

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.

Peakyas4 mountains within 25 km
Mount Karpinsky1,803 m · 2.0 kmMount Narodnaya1,895 m · 3.9 kmManaraga1,662 m · 18 kmGora Karpinskogo21 km
Darkskyas2 dark-sky places within 30 km
Mount NarodnayaBortle 1 · 4.0 kmManaragaBortle 1 · 18 km
Viewyas1 viewpoints within 15 kmComing soon
Mount Narodnaya1,895 m · 4.0 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.

Virgin Komi Forests-119480
Guy Debonnet · CC BY-SA 3.0 igo
Entrance to hiking trail in Pechora-Ilych B.R
Metselaar, J. · CC BY-SA 4.0
Entrance to Pechora-Ilych Biosphere Reserve
Metselaar, J. · CC BY-SA 4.0

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q593870) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species23 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, Darkskyas, Viewyas

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