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Alexander Garden

Max Dawncat · CC BY 2.0

8% trees around it and 892 species recorded.

36Forestyas Score

ProtectedFungiBirds

  • trees within 3 km8%
  • wild within 10 km44%
  • species recorded892

The forest around

8% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 9%Water 20%Cropland 0%Built-up 70%Trees 8%Grassland 0%Water 12%Built-up 79%Trees 19%Grassland 1%Water 14%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 65%Trees 24%Grassland 3%Wetland 0%Water 23%Bare ground 1%Cropland 2%Built-up 48%8%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km9%
  • 1–3 km8%
  • 3–6 km19%
  • 6–10 km24%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees8%
  • Grassland0%
  • Water12%
  • Bare ground0%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up79%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

892 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

European bird cherry
European bird cherryPrunus padus111 recordsИгоревич · Public domain
Japanese rose
Japanese roseRosa rugosa103 recordsVihljun · Public domain
Bishop's goutweed
Bishop's goutweedAegopodium podagraria80 recordsBeko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common dandelion
Common dandelionTaraxacum officinale79 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
White Dead-nettle
White Dead-nettleLamium album71 recordsJohann Georg Sturm (Painter: Jacob Sturm ) · Public domain
Coltsfoot
ColtsfootTussilago farfara68 recordsAndreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5
Ground-ivy
Ground-ivyGlechoma hederacea66 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
Yellow pondlily
Yellow pondlilyNuphar lutea61 recordsHans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 3.0
Common Barberry
Common BarberryBerberis vulgaris53 recordsgailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K · CC BY 2.0
Greater Plantain
Greater PlantainPlantago major52 recordsEpgrande · CC BY 4.0
Shrubby Cinquefoil
Shrubby CinquefoilDasiphora fruticosa51 recordsWalter Siegmund · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lesser Celandine
Lesser CelandineFicaria verna50 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

36out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 8%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 44%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 892Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking in June and in August.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan-5°-10°45 mm
  2. Feb-5°-10°38 mm
  3. Mar0°-6°40 mm
  4. Apr7°0°46 mm
  5. May15°6°60 mm
  6. Jun18°11°78 mm
  7. Jul22°14°88 mm
  8. Aug20°13°90 mm
  9. Sep15°9°58 mm
  10. Oct7°3°67 mm
  11. Nov1°-2°59 mm
  12. Dec-3°-7°54 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Alexander Garden.

Park in St Petersburg, Russia

Alexander Garden is a protected forest in Russia.

Seen from space, 8% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 44% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

892 species have been recorded around it: 665 plants, 61 fungi, 158 birds and 8 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: European bird cherry, Japanese rose and Bishop's goutweed.

The best time to walk is in June and in August.

Saint Petersburg 2015-06-27 21-04-26 IMG 6063 (32663949681)
Max Dawncat · CC BY 2.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Alexander Garden seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 32named and notable trees within 6 kmКлëн СПбГАСУ and 31 more
  • 2picnic sites within 4 km
  • 54shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 38viewpoints within 5 kmСтрелка Васильевского острова, Невская панорама, Вид на дом Капустина and 35 more
  • 13visitor centres within 6 kmГородское туристско-информационное бюро, Информационно-туристский центр Ленинградской области, Кассы and 10 more
  • 882car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 kmAurora, Елизар
  • 1,269places to stay within 10 kmCentral-Inn, Пушка Инн, Dolce Vita and 1,266 more
  • 2,117restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Alexander Garden.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Pulkovo Mountain74 m · 18 km
Lakeyas4 lakes within 15 km
Ivanovsky Quarry0.3 km² · 9.6 kmLakhtinsky Razliv0.9 km² · 10 kmOkhta Reservoir0.3 km² · 11 kmShuvalovsky Quarry0.3 km² · 12 km
Darkskyas4 dark-sky places within 30 km
Observatory of Kunstkamera, Saint PetersburgBortle 9 · 0.6 kmSaint Petersburg PlanetariumBortle 9 · 2.0 kmThe Voeikov Main Geophysical ObservatoryBortle 9 · 6.5 kmPulkovo ObservatoryBortle 8 · 18 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Neva74 km · 2,500 m³/sVolkovka25 kmDachnayaPulkovka

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Den goroda SPb 29May2010 70
Peterburg23 · CC BY 3.0
Moscow - 2026 - A summer view of the Kremlin and the Alexander Garden from the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge1
Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
Aleksander garden and Neva River
AndreyA · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Alexander Garden

Russia

  • 36Forestyas Score
  • 8%Trees
  • 44%Wild
  • 892Species

Kovalevsky Forest

Russia · 15 km

  • 72Forestyas Score
  • 89%Trees
  • 76%Wild
  • 173Species

See the guide

Shuvalovsky Park

Russia · 15 km

  • 52Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 62%Wild
  • 343Species

See the guide

Peter the Great Botanical Garden

Russia · 4 km

  • 34Forestyas Score
  • 20%Trees
  • 45%Wild
  • 201Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q3162435) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species33,379 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Riveryas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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