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Pugachov's Oak

Eljah · CC BY-SA 3.0

95% of the land around it is trees.

  • trees within 3 km95%
  • wild within 10 km98%
  • Altitude174 m

The forest around

95% 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 98%Water 2%Trees 95%Grassland 4%Water 1%Built-up 0%Trees 95%Grassland 4%Water 1%Trees 89%Grassland 8%Water 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 1%95%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km98%
  • 1–3 km95%
  • 3–6 km95%
  • 6–10 km89%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees95%
  • Grassland4%
  • Water1%
  • Cropland0%
  • Built-up0%

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

60out of 100

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

  • 95%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 98%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 174 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May.

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

  1. Jan-10°-17°44 mm
  2. Feb-9°-16°37 mm
  3. Mar-2°-9°45 mm
  4. Apr8°-1°45 mm
  5. May18°7°52 mm
  6. Jun22°12°71 mm
  7. Jul24°15°72 mm
  8. Aug23°13°60 mm
  9. Sep16°7°54 mm
  10. Oct7°0°61 mm
  11. Nov-2°-7°48 mm
  12. Dec-8°-15°50 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Pugachov's Oak.

Tree in Mari El, Russia

Pugachov's Oak is a notable tree in Russia.

Seen from space, 95% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 98% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

The best time to walk is in May.

Pugachov's Oak and outdoor tourists around it
Eljah · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • Каньонcampsite · 8.3 km · 42 within 10 km
  • бывшая пасекаplace to stay · 12 km · 1 within 10 km
  • Krasnogorskiynearest town · 9.0 km in a straight line
  • Cheboksary Airport (CSY)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 70 km in a straight line

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.

Pugachov's Oak 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

  • 9picnic sites within 4 km
  • 10shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 4viewpoints within 5 kmШойчандал, Мушанъерская обзорная (Разрушена), Кипящая площадь and 1 more
  • 1car parks within 3 km
  • 42campsites within 10 kmКаньон and 41 more
  • 1places to stay within 10 kmбывшая пасека
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 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 Pugachov's Oak.

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.

Lakeyas4 lakes within 15 km
Glukhoye Lake0.2 km² · 10 kmKichier Lake0.4 km² · 10 kmMelnichnoe0.4 km² · 11 kmLake Yalchik1.0 km² · 14 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.

Other forests nearby.

Pugachov's Oak

Russia

  • 60Forestyas Score
  • 95%Trees
  • 98%Wild
  • —Species

Genko's Forest Belt

Russia · 264 km

  • 11Forestyas Score
  • 16%Trees
  • 26%Wild
  • 1Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q7258907) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
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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