06/08/2021
A construction scandal broke out near Kyiv. Activists and locals fear that a plot in the Black Forest will be built for a cottage town
One week ago, about 300 people, including artists Ruslan and Pavel Zibrov, opposed the construction of a site near Kiev in the Black Forest. They fear that the tenant of 19 hectares of forest will cut down trees for the construction of a cottage town. The company has already paved the road to the site, installed a fence around its perimeter and states that there will be no mass felling.The monastic forest grows on an area of 420 hectares and is located between the villages of Khodosovka and Lesniki, five kilometers south of Kiev. The forest is part of the Boyar Forest Research Station, which occupies 17,000 hectares of pine and oak forests, uniting a narrow corridor of the Dnieper and Irpen river valleys.
The monastic forest is a historically significant part of the station. Here are snake shafts, with which they defended Russia from the nomads, and during the Second World War, the "Stalin line" passed through the forest - the defensive line in the USSR. In addition, the forest is considered "light" in the southern part of Kiev. Here are the oldest trees in the area - some about 300 years old. And along the forest corridor during seasonal migrations, forest birds from northern Europe bypass Kiev. There are many Red Book animals and plants - rare mahogany butterflies, deer beetles, forest lilies, meadow shots, etc ..