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Kholodny Yar

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87% trees around it and 372 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km87%
  • wild within 10 km61%
  • species recorded372
  • Altitude247 m

The forest around

87% 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 86%Grassland 2%Cropland 12%Trees 66%Grassland 10%Water 1%Cropland 23%Trees 37%Grassland 13%Wetland 0%Water 0%Cropland 49%Built-up 0%87%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km86%
  • 3–6 km66%
  • 6–10 km37%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees86%
  • Grassland2%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water0%
  • Cropland12%

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

372 species recorded.

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

Ramsons
RamsonsAllium ursinum84 recordsAgnes Monkelbaan · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sword-leaved helleborine
Sword-leaved helleborineCephalanthera longifolia54 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Galanthus plicatus
Galanthus plicatusGalanthus plicatus54 recordsNo machine-readable author provided. SiGarb assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domain
Two-lead squill
Two-lead squillScilla bifolia32 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Spring fumewort
Spring fumewortCorydalis solida29 recordsBernd Haynold · CC BY 2.5
Yellow woodland anemone
Yellow woodland anemoneAnemone ranunculoides28 recordsBogdan · CC BY-SA 3.0
Spotted henbit
Spotted henbitLamium maculatum26 recordsTomasz Kuran aka Meteor2017 · CC BY 2.5
Pulmonaria obscura
Pulmonaria obscuraPulmonaria obscura21 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lesser Celandine
Lesser CelandineFicaria verna21 recordsAnRo0002 · CC0
European mistletoe
European mistletoeViscum album20 recordsGeorge Chernilevsky · CC BY 4.0
Yellow star-of-bethlehem
Yellow star-of-bethlehemGagea lutea19 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 2.5
Hollowroot
HollowrootCorydalis cava17 recordsJohann Jaritz · CC BY-SA 3.0 at

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

69out of 100

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

  • 87%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 61%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 372Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 247 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in September.

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

  1. Jan-3°-9°43 mm
  2. Feb0°-8°36 mm
  3. Mar6°-2°39 mm
  4. Apr14°4°32 mm
  5. May22°11°60 mm
  6. Jun26°16°70 mm
  7. Jul29°18°63 mm
  8. Aug28°17°33 mm
  9. Sep22°11°50 mm
  10. Oct14°4°45 mm
  11. Nov6°-1°39 mm
  12. Dec0°-6°40 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Kholodny Yar.

Forest in the Chyhyrynsky district, Cherkasy Oblast, in central Ukraine

Kholodny Yar is a forest in Ukraine, 247 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 87% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 61% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

372 species have been recorded around it: 104 plants, 248 fungi, 13 birds and 7 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Ramsons, Sword-leaved helleborine and Galanthus plicatus.

The best time to walk is in May and in September.

Cold Ravine 3443
Antanana · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Поклик Яру - національно-патріотичний табірcampsite · 3.9 km · 1 within 10 km
  • Яблунева Хатаplace to stay · 4.1 km · 6 within 10 km
  • Medvedivkanearest town · 11 km in a straight line
  • Chişinău International Airport (RMO)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 347 km in a straight lineCar hire at KBP airport (Boryspil)Discover Cars · sponsored link

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.

Kholodny Yar 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

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmЕкостежка "Цікаво про ліс"
  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmДуб Максима Залізняка
  • 3picnic sites within 4 km
  • 16shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 2viewpoints within 5 km
  • 4car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmПоклик Яру - національно-патріотичний табір
  • 6places to stay within 10 kmЯблунева Хата, Фазенда, Дивокрай and 3 more
  • 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

71-254-0005 Kholodny Yar DSC 3051
Haidamac · CC BY-SA 4.0
71-254-0054 Kholodny Yar SAM 2278
Haidamac · CC BY-SA 4.0
Cold Ravine 3444
Antanana · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other forests nearby.

Kholodny Yar

Ukraine

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 87%Trees
  • 61%Wild
  • 372Species

Black Forest

Ukraine · 46 km

  • 65Forestyas Score
  • 98%Trees
  • 52%Wild
  • 411Species

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Millennial oak tree of Maksym Zaliznyak

Ukraine · 3 km

  • 41Forestyas Score
  • 67%Trees
  • 59%Wild
  • 3Species

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Sofiyivsky Park

Ukraine · 153 km

  • 44Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 37%Wild
  • 232Species

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Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4499355) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species4,762 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

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

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