Chernyayevsky Forest is a forest in the city of Perm

Perm

Perm is a city and the administrative center of Perm Krai, Russia, located on the banks of the Kama River, in the European part of Russia near the Ural Mountains. From 1940 to 1957 it was named Molotov ....

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, in Industrialny

Industrialny City District, Perm

Industrialny City District is one of the seven city districts of Perm. Population: -History:Industrialny City District is the most recently established district of the city...

 and Dzerzhinsky

Dzerzhinsky City District, Perm

Dzerzhinsky City District is one of the seven city districts of Perm. Population: -Name:The city district is called after Felix Dzerzhinsky, a Soviet revolutionary and politician.-Geography:...

 city districts . The total area of forest in 2003 was 689.9 ha

Hectare

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 . The forest is under direction of Municipal Establishment "Perm City Forestry".

Flora

The basic types of tree

Tree

A tree is a perennial woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or trunk with clear apical dominance. A minimum height specification at maturity is cited by some authors, varying from 3 m to...

s growing in the forest are Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris)

Scots Pine

Pinus sylvestris, commonly known as the Scots Pine, is a species of pine native to Europe and Asia, ranging from Scotland, Ireland and Portugal in the west, east to eastern Siberia, south to the Caucasus Mountains, and as far north as well inside the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia...

, Siberian Spruce (Picea obovata)

Siberian Spruce

Siberian Spruce is a spruce native to Siberia, from the Ural Mountains east to Magadan Oblast, and from the arctic tree line south to the Altay Mountains in northwestern Mongolia.-Description and uses:...

 and Siberian Fir (Abies sibirica)

Siberian Fir

Abies sibirica, the Siberian Fir, is a coniferous evergreen tree native to the taiga east of the Volga River and south of 67°40' North latitude in Siberia through Turkestan, northeast Xinjiang, Mongolia and Heilongjiang.-Distribution:...

. Birch

Birch

Birch is a tree or shrub of the genus Betula , in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae. The Betula genus contains 30–60 known taxa...

, Alder

Alder

Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants belonging to the birch family . The genus comprises about 30 species of monoecious trees and shrubs, few reaching large size, distributed throughout the North Temperate Zone and in the Americas along the Andes southwards to...

 and Aspen

Aspen

Populus section Populus, of the Populus genus, includes the aspen trees and the white poplar Populus alba. The five typical aspens are all native to cold regions with cool summers, in the north of the Northern Hemisphere, extending south at high altitudes in the mountains. The White Poplar, by...

 are also present. There are artificial plantings of trees, which are atypical for the nature of Perm Krai

Perm Krai

Perm Krai is a federal subject of Russia that came into existence on December 1, 2005 as a result of the 2004 referendum on the merger of Perm Oblast and Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug. The city of Perm became the administrative center of the new federal subject...

: Siberian crabapple (Malus baccata), Siberian Pear (Pyrus ussuriensis), Manitoba Maple (Acer negundo)

Acer negundo

Acer negundo is a species of maple native to North America. Box Elder, Boxelder Maple, and Maple Ash are its most common names in the United States...

, Norway Maple (Acer platanoides)

Norway Maple

Acer platanoides is a species of maple native to eastern and central Europe and southwest Asia, from France east to Russia, north to southern Scandinavia and southeast to northern Iran....

, Manchurian Cherry (Prunus maackii) and Pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica), Hungarian Lilac (Syringa josikaea)

Syringa josikaea

Syringa josikaea is a species of Lilac, native to central and eastern Europe, in the Carpathian Mountains in Hungary, Romania, and western Ukraine....

 and others.

There are more than 50 species of plants growing on the glades. Most of them are grassy perennials

Perennial plant

A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives for more than two years. The term is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter lived annuals and biennials. The term is sometimes misused by commercial gardeners or horticulturalists to describe only herbaceous perennials...

. There are food, medicinal, fodder and weed plants among them. 14 species of plants are rare and need protection.

Fauna

A quantity of species of birds live in the forest. Squirrels and hares lived there formerly, but today anthropogenic influence have aggravated the condition of vegetation and fauna.

In 2005 Municipal Establishment "Perm City Forestry" put up 80 artificial nests .

Recreation park "Balatovo"

At the territory of forest Recreation park "Balatovo" is situated. It was founded February 1, 1967. Its area is 19 ha

Hectare

The hectare is a metric unit of area defined as 10,000 square metres , and primarily used in the measurement of land. In 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the are was defined as being 100 square metres and the hectare was thus 100 ares or 1/100 km2...

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