Description of the attraction
The nature reserve is located 2 km north-east of Luga. It was organized in 1976. The reserve includes two areas, one to the south, the other to the north of the Luga River. The area of the Shalovo-Perechitsky reserve is 5, 272 thousand hectares.
The nature reserve was created in order to preserve the landscape of the middle reaches of the Luga with glacial relief, fragments of deciduous forests, pine forests, and rare southern-pine forests. This area is promising for family recreation, ecological tourism, sports, amateur, exclusive fishing.
The reserve has a very picturesque territory, the beauty of which is made up of the surface of lakes, sandy hills and ridges, a variety of forests with rare plants. On the watershed, centuries-old pine forests have survived to this day, which are mostly represented by green moss, heather and reindeer pine forests, among them the territories of dry grass forests, rare for this region, are of particular value. They are also called "forest-flower beds", because many relict southern-pine forest, steppe and ornamental forest-steppe plants grow here. A colorful carpet of "flower beds" against the background of green moss and reindeer moss ground cover is created by lumbago, including meadow lumbago, which is included in the Red Book, sand carnation, sandy sainfoin and other species.
On the banks of the Oredezh and Luga rivers, along the coast of the lakes, there are lime forests, elm forests, oak groves with a typical set of companions of broad-leaved forests for them: wolfberry, noble liverwort, spring rank and other early flowering ornamental plants. There are also areas of coastal vegetation.
The local avifauna is characterized by a large number of species of southern origin, which are quite rare for the Leningrad region. This is a white stork, and a black kite, and a kestrel, and a klintukha, and a green woodpecker, and a hoopoe, and an ordinary and ringed dove. A wolf was encountered on Lake Merevskoye, which is not part of the reserve. For the reserve "Shalovo-Perechitsky" such mammals as wild boar, hedgehog, hare are common. Four species of bats have been spotted here: long-eared bat, northern leather jacket, water bat and baleen bat. Some of them hibernate along the banks of the river in adits. Brook trout lives in Oredezha, which is not part of the reserve.
Specially protected objects include areas of deciduous forests located along the slopes of the Luga River, dry-grass pine forests, rare plant species: meadow lumbago, open lumbago, weaving tuft, sandy cloves, sandy sparts, young shoots, marsh turkey, green-flowered resin, Ruysha snakehead variegated horsetail, scepter-shaped mytnik; rare species of animals and fish: brook trout, white stork, eager lizard, green woodpecker, kestrel, ringed dove, bats of all kinds.
On the territory of the reserve "Shalovo-Perechitsky" it is prohibited to: harvest bark; tapping trees, launching fires, making fires in places not designated for this; parking and passage of motor vehicles - only along the existing network of highways, staging of motor vehicles in the water protection zone of rivers and lakes - only in specially designated places; it is forbidden to set up landfills and pollute the territory of the reserve, lakes and rivers.
