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Krasny Bor Forest, Karelia

Semenov.m7 · CC BY-SA 3.0

64% trees around it and 7 species recorded.

59Forestyas Score

ForestWild

  • trees within 3 km64%
  • wild within 10 km99%
  • species recorded7
  • Altitude60 m

The forest around

64% 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 82%Water 18%Built-up 0%Trees 62%Grassland 2%Water 35%Cropland 0%Built-up 1%Trees 61%Grassland 3%Wetland 0%Water 34%Cropland 1%Built-up 1%Trees 56%Grassland 1%Wetland 0%Water 42%Built-up 0%64%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km82%
  • 1–3 km62%
  • 3–6 km61%
  • 6–10 km56%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees62%
  • Grassland2%
  • Wetland0%
  • Water35%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up1%

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

7 species recorded.

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

Bishop's goutweed
Bishop's goutweedAegopodium podagraria4 recordsBeko · CC BY-SA 4.0
Annual knawel
Annual knawelScleranthus annuus3 recordsFornax at German Wikipedia · Public domain
Yellow pinesap
Yellow pinesapHypopitys monotropa2 recordsHolger Krisp · CC BY 3.0
Prickly rose
Prickly roseRosa acicularis2 recordsRavedave · CC BY-SA 3.0
Corn spurrey
Corn spurreySpergula arvensis2 recordsRasbak · CC BY-SA 3.0
Dwarf honeysuckle
Dwarf honeysuckleLonicera xylosteum2 recordsDaniel Fuchs · CC BY-SA 2.5
Lesser butterfly-orchid
Lesser butterfly-orchidPlatanthera bifolia2 recordsHans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

59out of 100

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

  • 64%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 99%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 7Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 60 mAltitudeabove the sea

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-9°-15°49 mm
  2. Feb-8°-14°41 mm
  3. Mar-2°-9°47 mm
  4. Apr5°-1°54 mm
  5. May14°6°77 mm
  6. Jun18°10°97 mm
  7. Jul21°14°100 mm
  8. Aug19°12°115 mm
  9. Sep13°7°76 mm
  10. Oct5°1°72 mm
  11. Nov-2°-6°67 mm
  12. Dec-6°-11°57 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Krasny Bor Forest, Karelia.

Forest and a memorial cemetery in the Republic of Karelia, Russia

Krasny Bor Forest, Karelia is a forest in Russia.

Seen from space, 64% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 99% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

7 species have been recorded around it: 7 plants, 0 fungi, 0 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Bishop's goutweed, Annual knawel and Yellow pinesap.

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

КрасныйБор
Semenov.m7 · CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Krasny Bor Forest, Karelia 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

  • 2picnic sites within 4 km
  • 1shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 11campsites within 10 kmполянка, небольшая поляна, большая поляна and 8 more
  • 3places to stay within 10 kmHause, База отдыха "Уя", Загородный клуб "Серебро Онеги"
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 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 Krasny Bor Forest, Karelia.

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.

Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Uvarovo0.6 km² · 8.5 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Bolshaya Uya16 km

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

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

КрасныйБор.Крест
Semenov.m7 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ф.В.Рендницкий-мемориал жертвам Красного террора в Красном бору
Федор Рендницкий · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Krasny Bor Forest, Karelia

Russia

  • 59Forestyas Score
  • 64%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 7Species

Sandarmokh

Russia · 138 km

  • 69Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 8Species

See the guide

Kovalevsky Forest

Russia · 285 km

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

See the guide

Shuvalovsky Park

Russia · 290 km

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

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4239674) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species42 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 atlasesLakeyas, 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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