02/03/2025 The Interdistrict Environmental Prosecutor of MoscowRegionheld an on-sitereception for citizens
On the 30th of February, 2025 citizens were received at the Prioksko-Terrasny Reserveby the interdistrict environmental prosecutor of Moscow Region, Natalia Krinitskaya.11 citizens applied to the prosecutor for a personal reception with different problems. The residents of Danki, Serpukhovand Pushchino were interested in issues of protection of housing rights,responsible treatment of animal sand compliance with environmental legislation.All applicants were provided with the necessary legal advicebased on current environmental and othe rlegislation.As a result of the meeting 9 appeals were accepted for which additional checks will be organized and a written answer will be given.
02/10/2025 “Bespalov readings”
The specialists of the Prioksko-Terrasny Reserve took part in the XVI local history readings at the Pushchino House of Scientists dedicated to the memory of Yuri Bespalov, a local historian known for his research on the history of Pushchino and its suburb, who made a significant contribution to the study of the region, an author of the book “The Land of Vyatichi”, covering the history of Serpukhov district from ancient times to the present day. Every year historians, archaeologists, geologists and local historians take part in the readings. People who collect knowledge about Serpukhov land bit by bit, they meet to communicate with colleagues and share the latest scientific research. The Prioksko-Terrasny Reserve is the same age as the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, and on the eve of the 80th anniversary of this important date, it has done a lot of work to collect information about the history of the reserve, the events preceding the war and the war years. Vasily Demidov, Deputy Director for Scientific Work at the Prioksko-Terrasny Reserve, demonstrated unique aerial photographs taken by German scout aircraft during the Great Patriotic War. Those images helped to restore the picture of the forest condition in 1945 when the reserve was founded. Ivan Goryachev, the head of the Oka archaeological expedition, also spoke about the achievements of the past excavation season in Serpukhov, in particular, in the village of Zibrovo and at the Spas-Teshilovsky settlement. Anyone can get acquainted with the work of the expedition and the artifacts, found in Serpukhov Poochye in 2024, at the Pushchino Museum of Ecology and Local History until February 28, 2025.
02/12/2025 Forinspirationto the photographers
The specialists of the Department of Environmental Education and Educational Tourism of the Prioksko-Terrasny Reserve visited the exhibition “One Hundred Years of the Russian Landscape”. It was a bright finishing to the IV Festival of Russian Art Photography “Siberia-Serpukhov”, which began with an online competition on the portal “Photographer” on July 1, 2024, and passed through Krasnoyarsk, Stolby, Pushchino to end in Serpukhov. The Russian public organization “The Union of Photo Artists of Russia” took part in the organization of the festival, and Evgenia Komarova, the head of the exhibition and the event tourism sector at the Pushchino Central Exhibition Center “Vertical”, became the tutor and ideological inspirer. The exhibition is open at the Serpukhov Museum and Exhibition Center until the 16th of February. We recommend you to visit it and get inspired! We would like to thank our colleagues from the Serpukhov Museum and Exhibition Center for the opportunity to visit the exhibition.
02/19/2025 Prioksko-Terrasny Reserve is 46 years old
The Prioksko-Terrasny Nature Reserve is a part of the UNESCO system of biosphere reserves. According to the established tradition we celebrate the date of obtaining the status with a massive environmental and educational event with a sporting tendency. On the 18th of Februaryapartner of the biosphereReservehosted a festiveeventon the farm territory “Spassky”,locatedin the cooperationzone,dedicated to the 46thanniversaryof the awarding of the status of a biosphere reserve to the Prioksko-TerrasnyReserve.Theevent was attended by organizedteamsincluding thestudents of group1842 with their tutor, the activists of the youthmovementSerpukhov “Molodaya Gvardiya”, the pupils of the military-patrioticassociation”Armeets” from Protvino,aswell as the students of the ProvincialandSerpukhovColleges. The eventprogrammewasrichandexciting. The participants got acquaintedwith the territory of the farm,wherethey were shown the place of keepingsheepandnewanimals of the farm— the camelsDirhamaandLira.Despitethewinterweatherall the participantsenthusiasticallycompleted the taskswarming up in the process of passing the questandhelpingeachother.According to the results of the scoring, the winnerwas the SerpukhovCollegeteamwhichshowedexcellentresults. The holidayended with a tea party organizedwith the support of the Agro-industrial complex”Spassky”.All the participantsreceivedpositiveemotions,newknowledgeandlots of cleanwinterair.
02/26/2025 Along the whitetrail
Winter route accounting in conditions of little snow has been successfully completed. Employees of the Prioksko-Terrasny Reserve and experienced volunteer trackers walked along 11 routes and mapped all the animal tracks they encountered. The scientific department will compile all the data into a single table and calculate the number of individuals of each mammal species inhabiting the protected forest and active in winter. In general the fauna’s condition can be described as stable. The moose is still the most numerous ungulate species in the reserve. Moose tracks are found everywhere, and some accountants boasted of visual encounters, including with groups of females with grown-up moose calves. Spotted and red deer, roe deer and wild boar feel confident, but each species is inferior in numbers to the moose. Nevertheless the native habitats of the four species that occupy the second line of the rating are located in areas with milder and less snowy winters than in Moscow region. Perhaps all these species will like this winter and the herds will wait for spring without losses. Lynxes showed unusual activity. The accountants noted the presence of their tracks almost throughout the entire territory of the reserve. One of the inspectors noted the interesting behavior of the predator — moving in the footsteps of a young spotted deer, the lynx stepped with its soft, pubescent paws strictly into the hoof prints of the potential victim — strictly following the trail. The tracks of two lynxes were also encountered on one of the routes — a double trail with a lot of intersections. By all accounts, this is an adult mother and her kitten, who have been caught in camera traps more than once. In places there were quite numerous traces of hares. There were racing tracks of foxes. Squirrels were fattening in the spruce forests, and marten tracks were often found there, which traditionally feel good in the reserve. The interest was aroused by rare winter observations. Firstly, it is the footprints of an otter, a species listed in the Red Book of Moscow region. Secondly, it is traces of a beaver marked far from the river, which usually waits for winter in a hut with sufficient food supplies. Thirdly, it is the traces of a hedgehog waking up earlier. We hope that the hedgehog will not freeze in the frosts that will come after the winter, he will hide back in his warm shelter under the snag and will be patient with walks until spring.
