Azovo Sivash National Natural Park contacts. Azov-Sivash National Park

The protected area of ​​national importance is considered the pride of the region. They founded a reserve in the coastal zone of the Kherson region, on a magnificent spit with beautiful nature called Biryuchiy Island. A visit to this untouched area by man is only possible with a guide and along a clearly defined route.

In 1993, the Azov-Sivash National natural park, which united the waters of Azov and Lake Sivash. The territory of the reserve stretches 94 km in length and 33 km in width and occupies 57.4 thousand hectares. More than five thousand animals have been recorded here, 48 of which are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine. At different times of the year, about a million birds live in coastal areas. The park has formed a unique environmental ecosystem with high recreational properties. Therefore, the administration of the protected area developed a land route and a sea boat trip. On the territory of the reserve there are a couple of equipped houses where you can stay during the excursion.

Azov-Sivash National Natural Park - national park, located on the Biryuchiy Island spit, in the western part of the Sea of ​​Azov, in the Kherson region of Ukraine.

Created on February 25, 1993 by transforming the Azov-Sivash Nature Reserve into a national natural park.

The total area of ​​the park is 57.4 thousand hectares. All land is the property of the park.
Zoning: protected area - 38975.3 hectares, regulated recreation zone - 599.1 hectares, stationary recreation zone - 108.7 hectares, economic zone - 12473 hectares.

Flora: the total number of plant species growing in the park is 308, of which 12 are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine.

Fauna: 250 species of animals live on the territory of the NNP, 48 of which are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine.

The entire territory of the reserve belongs to the park without other nature users. Protected area is 38,970 hectares, and economic - 12,473 hectares. The park is located within the Prisivash-Priazov lowland region of the Black Sea-Priazov dry-wall province and the Prisivash-Crimean lowland region of the Crimean steppe province of the dry-steppe subzone of the steppe zone of Ukraine.

The issue of granting protected status to these territories and water areas was raised already at the end of the 19th century, when their active economic development began. At the end of the 20s of the last century, extensive comprehensive research began here, and already in 1923, the island was annexed to the then unified reserve in the south of Ukraine “Askania-Nova”, together with the Black Sea islands. Churyuk, located in central Sivash. In July 1927, at the Askania-Nova nature reserve, the Nadmorskie Spit nature reserve was created (in January 1933 it became an independent nature reserve), which included, in addition to areas of the northern Black Sea region, areas of Sivash and the coast of the Azov Sea. Later (in July 1937), two state reserves were organized on its basis: Black Sea and Azov-Sivash. After 20 years, the Azov-Sivashsky Nature Reserve was reorganized into the Azov-Sivashsky State Reserve and Hunting Estate as part of the island. Biryuchy and four more islands of Central Sivash: Kuyuk-Tuk and Churyuk, Martynyachiy and Kitai. The water area of ​​the 1-kilometer sea strip around the island was also granted protected status. Biryuchego and partly the waters around other islands. And, in the end, by Decree of the President of Ukraine dated February 25, 1993, the Azov-Sivash National Natural Park was created on the basis of the reserve and hunting reserve in order to preserve nesting birds, flora and fauna, unique natural complexes Northern Azov region and for their rational use for scientific, environmental, economic and recreational purposes.

The Sivash-Priazov region is characterized by certain types of landscapes, which within the park do not have a continuous distribution and, in addition, are of different types. Biryuchiy Island, together with the Fedotov Spit, belongs to the type of coastal landscapes and is characterized by modern coastal sandy-shell estuary-sea plains with poorly developed turf-beam saline soils and salt marshes. A special place in the landscape structure of the island is occupied by the landscapes of sea and internal bays.

Central Sivash is a brass-type sea bay. Within its boundaries there are so-called “droughts” - areas of periodic and constant flooding, which in an anhydrous state look like hard-loamy sor solonchaks. Its islands are represented by poorly drained forest-like plains with chestnut medium- and strongly saline soils in combination with solonetzes and archery solonchaks.

The climate of the park is moderate continental with hot, long, dry summers and relatively short winters with unstable snow cover 5-10 cm thick. Average temperature July - approximately +24°C, with a maximum of +40°C. The amount of precipitation is insignificant and has the lowest rate - about 260 mm per year. The region is characterized by prolonged droughts with hot winds.

In such climatic and soil conditions, relatively poor desert steppe and saline vegetation is formed. The valuable diversity of the park is represented mainly by feather grass and wheatgrass steppes and psammophyte vegetation. The dominant classification includes four marsh, 10 coastal-aquatic, 21 salt marsh, and 42 arch associations. Seven steppe associations are included in the Green Book of Ukraine. There are 308 species of vascular plants growing in the park. There are 12 species listed in the Red Book of Ukraine, of which there is one species each of bryophytes and lichens, and three species of mushrooms.

On the protected islands of Central Sivash - Churyuk and Kuyuk-Tuk, which were least susceptible to anthropogenic influence, true steppe phytocenoses have been preserved. Scythian october, violet wonder, dry steppe sage, and trinia bristly grow here. Such endemic and narrowly endemic species are widespread as the Churyuk kermek, the Sivash scale mealybug, the Sivash smolevka, the Biryuchansky yarrow, as well as Pleistocene relict species that are found on the territory of Ukraine only in the Sivash region: Ophaistron unistamen, Tetradyclis tender; in the watershed areas there are desert steppes with a significant amount of xerophytic subshrubs in the grass - Crimean wormwood, curai modrin, as well as cereals - Becker's brome, Lavrenkov's wheatgrass, Lessing's feather grass and Ukrainian. On many spits, there are Caspian-Kermek and plantain formations, and on the wet solonchaks of the littoral strip there is quite common desert-halophytic vegetation: herbaceous solonetz, prostrate sodweed, Petrosimonia tristamen, semi-shrub Kermek, knobby sarsazan, Lutiga tatarian and others.

Coastal areas The Azov and Black Seas, especially Sivash with its numerous islands and peninsulas, are a place of concentration for many birds, which are attracted by the mild climate, rich feeding grounds and well-protected nesting areas from generation to generation. Numerous birds stop here to rest and feed. It is no coincidence that they say that a large migratory route passes here.

Back in 1976, the territory of Sivash (Sivash Bay) total area 45,700 hectares, together with three others, were declared a wetland of international importance, i.e. became the subject of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as habitat for waterfowl (Ramsar, 1971). In 1995, by decree of the Government of Ukraine, 22 wetlands of international importance were already identified, among which “Central Sivash” with an area of ​​80,000 hectares (this list also includes “Eastern Sivash” with an area of ​​165,000 hectares).

The characteristics of sites that meet the criteria of the Ramsar Convention are the following:
if more than 1 million birds are found in seasonal concentrations throughout the year (gulls, ducks, marsh ducks, waders, mute swan, galagaz, herons and others)
if the rarest endangered species are registered, which are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine: sea plover, stilt, oystercatcher, warbler, black-headed gull and white-tailed eagle.

Near the steppes of the Sivash region and on the island. In the Privet there are bustards, little bustards, steppe and gray cranes, field and steppe harriers, golden eagles, great spotted eagle, balaban, peregrine falcon, steppe kestrel. In total, the park has 30 species of birds listed in the Red Book of Ukraine. The white-tailed eagle and little bustard are also European Red List species; there may be more than 1% of the red-headed goose and mud-headed goose populations that winter here.

At the same time, the poor ornithological complex was at one time the main basis for the creation of a hunting reserve. Steppe forbs about. Biryuchego contributed to the formation here of numerous populations of acclimatized red deer (in 1992, its maximum number was recorded on the island - 830 heads), fallow deer (in 1991 there were 1425 heads), mouflon (987 heads in 1992) and kulan (in 1994 there were 37 goals). Work on acclimatization began in 1928. Among the game birds, the common pheasant is acclimatized here, the number of which periodically reaches several hundred. Also on about. Biryuchiy has created wonderful conditions for the existence of native species of fauna, for example, brown hare, fox, raccoon dog. Their numbers, especially given the tense epidemiological situation in the region, constantly have to be regulated.

In general, within the park there are over 5 thousand species of animals, including 250 vertebrates. Of the amphibians, the green toad and the lake frog are often found; among the reptiles, the sand lizard, the multi-colored lizard, the common and aquatic lizard are numerous. Among the fish of industrial importance are the flounder glossa and kalkan, leopard gobies, bobtail and Knipovich, Russian sturgeon and stellate sturgeon, as well as the recently acclimatized Far Eastern species of mullet - pilengas.

Insects find various ecological niches in the park. For sandy soils First of all, jumpers, quails, earwigs, bembidions and rove beetles are characteristic. Hymenoptera (pompylids, sphaecids, bees) dig their nests here. The larvae of dragonflies and dipterans develop in the water. There is a wide variety of swimming beetles, water lovers, whirligigs, and water strider bugs. There are many oligochaetes and polychaetes from annelids in shallow waters. There are different types of ciliates, sponges, crustaceans, mollusks and representatives of other groups.

In general, the fauna of the park includes: mammals - 17 species, birds - 197, reptiles - 8, amphibians - two species, fish - 26 species, mollusks - 6, arachnids - 3 species, crustaceans - 5 species, annelids - 1 species, hydroid polyps - 2 types.

The park also protects many species of animals listed in the Red Book of Ukraine: the large jerboa, the steppe ferret, the Azov dolphin and the four-striped and yellow-bellied snakes, the copperhead, the steppe viper, as well as two types of hydroid polyps, one each of annelids and crustaceans and 5 species insects, including praying mantises (empusa sandy and iris orthoptera), hymenoptera (road wasp Cryptocholus reddish and swarming wasp striped), as well as Leucomygus snow-white from hard-winged insects.

Recently, in the Azov region, work has been carried out to expand the territory of the existing park, primarily due to the waters of the Central Sivash wetland of international importance, and to create a new one national park in the Crimean part of Sivash (“Eastern Sivash”). This will significantly contribute to the preservation of natural complexes, the restoration of desert-steppe and shallow-water ecosystems, and will be the beginning of a new page in the life of these extremely attractive territories and water areas of southern Ukraine.

The Sea of ​​Azov is hidden in its surroundings with many cozy corners with untouched nature and unique, picturesque landscapes. One of these magical places is... These lands and water areas received protected status at the end of the 19th century and have been carefully protected since that time. Azov-Sivash National Natural Park created on February 25, 1993 by transformation Azov-Sivash Nature Reserve into a national natural park. He spread his possessions over Biryuchiy Island spit in the Northern Azov region, within Novotroitsky and Genichesk districts of Kherson region and nearby waters of the Sea of ​​Azov.


From west to east it stretches for 94 km, and from north to south – for 33 km, and its total area covers over 57,000 hectares of the Kherson region. The dry land areas assigned to the park have a total area of ​​8,469 hectares, including 7,528 hectares


in the Genichesk region (Biryuchiy Island and part of Kuyuk-Tuk Island) and 941 hectares in Novotroitsky (part of Churyuk Island with nearby small islands). The protected area is 38,970 hectares, and the economic zone is 12,473 hectares.


The park is within Prisivashsko-Priazovskaya lowland area Black Sea-Azov region dry wall province and Prisivash-Crimean lowland region of the Crimean steppe province of the dry-steppe subzone of the steppe zone of Ukraine. History of the formation of the park The issue of granting protected status to these territories and water areas was raised already at the end of the 19th century, when their active


economic development. At the end of the 20s of the last century, extensive comprehensive research began here, and already in 1923, the island was annexed to the then unified reserve in the south of Ukraine “Askania-Nova”, together with the Black Sea islands. Churyuk, located in central Sivash. In July 1927, at the Askania-Nova nature reserve a reserve was created "Over the sea braids"(in January 1933 it became an independent reserve), which included, in addition to sections of the northern Black Sea region, sections of Sivash and the coast of the Azov Sea. Later (in July 1937) two state reserves were organized on its basis: Black Sea and Azov-Sivash. After 20 years, the Azovo Nature Reserve was reorganized into the Azovo-Sivash State Reserve and Hunting Estate as part of the island. Biryuchy and four more islands of Central Sivash: Kuyuk-Tuk and Churyuk, Martynyachiy and China. The water area of ​​the kilometer-long sea strip around the island was also granted protected status. Biryuchego and partly the waters around other islands. And in the end By Decree of the President of Ukraine dated February 25, 1993 was created on the basis of a hunting reserve Azov-Sivash National Natural Park in order to preserve nesting birds, flora and fauna, unique natural complexes of the Northern Azov region and for their rational use for scientific, environmental, economic and recreational purposes. Here you can see quaint sandy valleys, sea plains and salt marsh formations. The flora of the park can hardly be called rich; it is rather unique in its diversity of relict plants. In these feather grass and wheatgrass steppes there are 12 species of plants listed in the Red Book. On the territories of the protected islands of Kuyuk-Tuk and Churyuk you can find real rarities: Sivash resin, October Scythian, trinia bristly, purple miracle, Sivash scale insect etc. In addition, it is here that rare Pleistocene species grow, found on the territory of Ukraine exclusively in Prisivash region. The climate of the park is moderate continental with hot, long, dry summers and relatively short winters with unstable snow cover 5-10 cm thick. The average temperature in July is approximately +24°C, with a maximum of +40°C. The amount of precipitation is insignificant and has the lowest rate in Ukraine. Flora in such conditions is formed by relatively poor desert steppe and saline vegetation. The diversity of the park is represented mainly by feather grass and wheatgrass steppes and psammophyte vegetation. Behind the dominant classification there are 4 swamps, 10 coastal waters, 21 salt marshes, 42 archery associations. IN

Green Book of Ukraine 7 steppe associations were assigned. Grows in the park

308 species of vascular plants. 12 are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine species, of which bryophytes and lichens– one type each, and mushrooms – 3 types. On protected islands Central Sivash – Churyuk and Kuyuk-Tuka, which were least susceptible to anthropogenic influence, the real steppe phytocenoses.

Scythian october, violet wonder, dry steppe sage, and trinia bristly grow here. Endemic and narrowly endemic species such as Kermek are widespread Churyuksky, Sivash scale worm, Sivash smolevka, Biryuchansky yarrow, as well as Pleistocene relict species, which are found on the territory of Ukraine only in the Sivash region: Ofystron unistamen, tetradiclis tender; on watershed areas - desert steppes with a significant amount of xerophytic subshrubs - wormwood - in the grass Crimean, curai modrinnogo, and also


cereals – Becker's bonfire, Lavrenkov's grain grass, Lessing's feather grass and Ukrainian. On many spits there are Caspian-Kermek and plantain formations, and on the wet salt marshes of the littoral strip there is a fairly widespread desert- halophytic vegetation: herbaceous solonetz, prostrate sodnik, petrosimonia tristamen, semi-shrub kermek, knobby sarsazan, lutiga tatarica and others.

Coastal areas Azov and Black Seas, especially Sivash with its numerous islands and peninsulas, rich feeding grounds, a favorable, mild climate and well-protected areas - all this attracts many birds to the Azov-Sivash Park, making it a popular nesting place. A large flight route passes here. Water-
The wetlands of the park have become a habitat for many waterfowl - from rofs, cranes and golden eagles to the greater spotted eagle and falcon and steppe kestrels. Some of them (for example, little bustard and white-tailed eagle) are listed in European Red List. Over 5,000 species of various animals live in the park. Some of them are "natives" - fox, brown hare, raccoon dog, and some were acclimatized in the park - fallow deer and red deer, wild ass and mouflon, among birds - common pheasant.


Fishes of industrial importance are flounder glossa and kalkan, leopard gobies, bobtail and Knipovich, Russian sturgeon and stellate sturgeon, and also recently


acclimatized Far Eastern species of mullet - pilengas. Insects find various ecological niches in the park. For sandy soils, First of all, they are characterized by jumpers, quails, earwigs, bembidions and rove beetles. Hymenoptera dig their nests here ( pompylids, sphaecids, bees). Larvae develop in water dragonflies and dipterans. There is great diversity diving beetles, water lovers, whirling bugs, water strider bugs. Slip worms there are many in shallow waters oligochaetes and polychaetes. There are different types ciliates, sponges, crustaceans, mollusks and representatives of other groups.

Hunting (regular and underwater) is permitted here under a license.
Number rare species birds and animals are carefully maintained and regulated. Currently, in the Azov region, work is underway to expand the territory of the existing park, primarily due to the water areas of the wetland

international importance Central Sivash, and the creation of a new national park in the Crimean part of Sivash (“Eastern Sivash”). This will significantly contribute to the preservation of natural complexes, the restoration of desert-steppe and shallow-water ecosystems, and will be the beginning of a new page in the life of these extremely attractive territories and water areas of the south.

Park administration opening hours: daily from 08.00 to 17.00
from 12.00 to 13.00 – lunch
Saturday, Sunday - days off.

Cost of land excursion: for an adult – 35 UAH.
for children under 14 years old – 15 UAH.
Cost of a sea excursion on a boat: for an adult – 60 UAH.
for children under 14 years old – 30 UAH.

Inspection of the natural park is possible only accompanied by a guide!

Address of Azovo-Sivash National Natural Park:
Ukraine, Kherson region, Genichesk, st. Petrovsky, 54

Location:

28 km east of Strelkovoe Kursk, on the Biryuchiy Island spit.

Granting the status of a reserve to the territories of the Prisivashsko-Priazovskaya lowland and the Prisivashsko-Crimean lowlands and their water areas worried environmentalists already at the end of the 19th century, when their active economic development began.

At the end of the 20s of the last century, extensive comprehensive research began here, and already in 1923 the island was annexed to the then unified reserve in the south of Ukraine “Askania-Nova”. Churyuk, located in central Sivash. In July 1927, the Nadmorskie Kosy reserve was created at the Askania-Nova reserve (in January 1933 it became an independent reserve), which included, in addition to sections of the northern Black Sea region, sections of Sivash and the coast of the Azov Sea. Later (in July 1937), two state reserves were organized on its basis: Black Sea and Azov-Sivash. Reorganization of the Azov-Sivash Nature Reserve into the Azov-Sivash State Reserve and Hunting Estate within the island. Biryuchy and four more islands of Central Sivash: Kuyuk-Tuk and Churyuk, Martynyachiy and Kitai, were produced 20 years later. The water area of ​​the 1-kilometer sea strip around the island was also granted protected status. Biryuchego and partly the waters around other islands.

By Decree of the President of Ukraine dated February 25, 1993, a hunting reserve was created Azov-Sivash National Natural Park in order to preserve nesting birds, flora and fauna, unique natural complexes of the Northern Azov region and for their rational use for scientific, environmental, economic and recreational purposes.

The Sivash-Priazov region is characterized by certain types of landscapes, which within the park do not have a continuous strip of distribution and are of different types. Biryuchiy Island, together with the Fedotov Spit, belongs to the type of coastal landscapes and is characterized by modern coastal sandy-shell estuary-sea plains with poorly developed turf-beam saline soils and salt marshes. A special place in the landscape structure of the island is occupied by the landscapes of sea and internal bays.

Central Sivash is a brass-type sea bay. On its territory there are so-called “droughts” - areas of periodic and constant flooding, which in an anhydrous state look like hard-loamy sor solonchaks.

The climate of the park is moderate continental with hot, long, dry summers and relatively short winters with unstable snow cover. The amount of precipitation is insignificant and has the lowest rate in Ukraine - 260 mm per year. This region is characterized by prolonged droughts with dry winds.

Therefore, here, in such climatic and soil conditions, relatively poor desert steppe and saline vegetation is formed. There are 308 species of vascular plants growing in the park. 12 species are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine.

The islands of Central Sivash - Churyuk and Kuyuk-Tuk - are least susceptible to anthropogenic influence, so true steppe phytocenoses have been preserved here. Among them are Scythian October, violet marvel, trinia bristly, and dry steppe sage.

The coastal areas of the Azov and Black Seas, especially Sivash with its numerous islands and peninsulas, are concentrated nesting sites for many species of birds. For them, these places are attractive primarily due to the mild climate, rich feeding grounds and well-protected areas of land for nesting. For numerous birds, the islands serve as respite and feeding grounds. The so-called “great migratory route” passes through these places.

Back in 1976, the territory of Sivash Bay with a total area of ​​45,700 hectares, together with three others, was declared a wetland of international importance. This meant that it became subject to the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially as habitat for waterfowl (Ramsar, 1971).

Near the steppes of the Sivash region and on the island. Privet species include little bustard, bustard, steppe and gray crane, field and steppe harrier, greater spotted eagle, golden eagle, balaban, peregrine falcon, steppe kestrel. The park has 30 species of birds listed in the Red Book of Ukraine. The white-tailed eagle and little bustard are also European Red List species; there may be more than 1% of the red-headed goose and mud-headed goose populations that winter here.

Also on about. Biryuchiy has created wonderful conditions for the existence of native species of fauna, for example, fox, brown hare, raccoon dog, green toad.

In general, there are over 5 thousand species of animals within the park, including 250 vertebrates. Of the amphibians, the lake frog is also often found; among the reptiles, the sand lizard, the common and aquatic snake, and the multi-colored lizard are numerous. The following fish are of industrial importance: glossa and kalkan flounder, bobcat, leopard and Knipovich gobies, Russian sturgeon and stellate sturgeon, as well as the recently acclimatized Far Eastern species of mullet - pilengas.

In general, the fauna of the park is represented by the following figures: mammals - 17 species, birds - 197, reptiles - 8, amphibians - two species, fish - 26 species, mollusks - 6, arachnids - 3 species, crustaceans - 5 species, annelids - 1 species, hydroids polyps - 2 types.

The animals of the park are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine: the great jerboa, the steppe ferret, the Azov dolphin and the four-striped and yellow-bellied snakes, the copperhead, the steppe viper, as well as two types of hydroid polyps, one each of annelids and crustaceans, and 5 species of insects, including mantises and (empusa sand and iris orthoptera), hymenoptera (road wasp cryptocholus reddish and swarming wasp striated).

At the same time, the poor ornithological complex was at one time the main basis for the creation of a hunting reserve. Steppe forbs about. Biryuchego, which is a continuation of Fedotova Spit, contributed to the formation here of numerous populations of acclimatized red deer, fallow deer, mouflon and kulan.

Availability large area, the isolation of the territory, rich vegetation and fresh water makes it possible to use this unique corner of nature for breeding and protecting rare and endangered species of flora and fauna, and for us to plunge into the world of wild nature and fully enjoy it.

How to get there:

Inspection of the natural park is only possible accompanied by a guide! You can order both land and sea ​​excursions. Access to the natural park is only by prior agreement and special permits. There are three ways to visit the natural park: 1) get a pass - for this you need to contact the Kherson Forestry Department (Kherson, Kanatnaya str. 2); 2) buy a ticket to the recreation center on the island of Biryuchiy; 3) book an excursion from

Pink Lake Sivash is the name given to the system of small bays, which is located in the west of the Sea of ​​Azov, between the Arabat Spit on one side and the shores of the peninsula on the other. Sivash separates Crimean peninsula from the mainland, and its name translated from Crimean Tatar means “dirt”. Here they swim, fish (mainly glossa flounder) and, of course, heal with mud. Experts say that in terms of its healing qualities, Sivash mud is not inferior to the famous mud Dead Sea and Saki Lake. The chemical composition of these gifts of the earth allows them to be successfully used in the treatment and prevention of various diseases, as well as to improve immunity and general strengthening of the body.

This bay, once open and deep, gradually became clogged with sediment due to the soft and mobile soil of the Sea of ​​Azov, from which sea ​​surf piled up a mass of shallows and spits, called here bay-bars. The banks of Sivash are completely flat, the water in them is stagnant, and the sea is so shallow that in some places you need to walk a mile from the shore to enter knee-deep water. Sea winds push water onto the mainland, and in the summer heat the shallow Sivash dries up, and its shores become covered with a salty crust.

Healing properties of Sivash Bay

In summer, in shallow waters, the water warms up greatly and sometimes emits a putrid odor, which is why Sivash is also called the Rotten Sea. Because sea ​​water evaporates intensely, Sivash is highly mineralized. Sivash brine contains chloride compounds of sodium, potassium and magnesium, magnesium bromide, magnesium sulfate and other salts. It is found here not only in lakes - it has also penetrated into the soil. Salt production was carried out in Sivash for more than a thousand years: the salt mined here was transported even to Japan and Egypt.

It is interesting to visit Sivash at the end of summer, when one of the microalgae species Dunaliella Salina begins to bloom in the water. He produces large number beta-carotene, and the water acquires various shades of red - from crimson to brick.

From the bitter-salty Sivash it’s a stone’s throw to a freshwater spring - a fountain gushes straight from the ground. The characteristic smell of hydrogen sulfide is the only drawback of this water and at the same time the main indicator of the healing properties of the source. It is known that drinking such water is very useful for people suffering from metabolic disorders.

Sivash is separated from the sea by a narrow (in some places up to 500 m) and long (110 km) sandy strip called , in the northern part it is crossed by the narrow Genichevsky, or Thin Strait, connecting Sivash with Sea of ​​Azov. The Sivash system is a complex combination of water and land. Numerous islands, peninsulas and capes here alternate with reaches, straits and more or less isolated bays. In total, the Sivash system occupies over 10 thousand square meters. km, of which water accounts for more than 2,500 sq. km.

The smaller part of Sivash, located to the west of the Chongar Strait, is called Western Sivash, and the larger part, located to the east of it, is called Eastern. Despite its large size, Sivash is characterized by exceptionally shallow waters. Its greatest depth does not exceed 3 m, and the average is 70 cm. According to the famous geologist I.V. Mushketov, on the site of Sivash in the recent geological past there was land: a bay appeared on it together with the invasion of rising sea waters.

Travel to the lake is free. Many tourists come here as savages and stay in tents. The tourism infrastructure here is just beginning to develop. The water in the lake is very salty, so diving here is not advisable, and after each swim it is recommended to rinse your skin fresh water. Strong winds attract lovers of kiteboarding here - riding on the surface of the lake on boards using kites. Some tourists, leaving Sivash, take water from the lake with them and.

Flora and fauna of Sivash Bay

The flora and fauna of the Sivash region is unique - it’s all about the local climate and soil characteristics. Wonderful conditions attract birds here for the winter; even the rarest representatives of birds are found here. For example, a relict little bustard, which previously lived exclusively in the steppes of the Azov region, was already noticed here.

A guest from the salt lakes of southern Asia and Europe, galagaz, is also found in these territories. Recently, pheasants have been bred on these islands. Among the local plants are indigenous representatives of the flora of the Azov region: Russian valerian, stokolos awnless, jaundice and others.

Landscape park "Kalinovsky"

In the Dzhankoy district, near the village of Transrachnoye in the vicinity of Central Sivash, the Kalinovsky regional landscape park is located on an area of ​​12 thousand hectares. It was created with the aim of preserving wetlands of international importance on the site of the Kalinovka tract, where a military training ground was located.

The landscape park occupies one of the many peninsulas of the Sivash coast - Tyupkangil. The Sivash lagoon is shallow here, the shores of the peninsula, 25 km long, are periodically flooded. The park contains natural associations of several types of Crimean steppes: sod-grass, zonal-desert, and pale-forb.

Among the fauna in the Kalinovsky Landscape Park, settlements of cormorants, waders, and gulls are common. The protected areas are home to about 150 species of birds, more than 10 of which—the yellow heron, the ogre, the merganser, the white-tailed eagle, the steppe crane and others—are listed in the Red Book.

How to get to the Kalinovsky landscape park?

To get to landscape park“Kalinovskiy” from Dzhankoy you need to get to the village of Transzrachnoye.

Prisivash Botanical Reserve

You can also take a deep breath of air filled with the aroma of fragrant herbs with salty notes of Sivash in the Prisivashsky botanical reserve, located in the Nizhnegorsky region of Crimea. The virgin steppe with medicinal plants is protected here, in particular with extensive thickets of chamomile, a valuable and very popular medicinal plant.

During the flowering period, chamomile covers vast areas with a continuous carpet, and its aroma is carried by the warm wind far across the steppe. A visit to the reserve during the chamomile blooming period can be a vivid experience.

You can get to the Lower Mountains, where the Prisivashsky reserve is located, by following the White Rock downstream of the Biok-Karasu River. This road will lead you to the village of Nizhnegorye. It is noteworthy that the geographical center of Crimea is located here, in Soviet era A memorial sign with a corresponding mark was installed on this territory.

The estate of Shatilov, a local eminent landowner, was recently restored in the village. The estate hosts temporary exhibitions of local artists, one of which is called “Shatilov’s Night Estate”: guests of the exhibition are invited to stroll through the night estate, illuminated by numerous candles, and enjoy the best works of Crimean artists.

Lake Sivash and Prisivashye on video