Natural Park "Vepsian forest" was organized in 1970. It located in Podporozhsky, Tikhvin, and Boksitogorsk Lodejnopolsky districts of the Leningrad region, in the south-east of the village of Courbet, villages and Ladva Myagozero (Minitskaya). Area of ​​the reserve is 7, 392 thousand hectares.

Nature park created to preserve forest ecosystems, oligotrophic bogs and lakes, dystrophic lakes, especially the conservation of valuable natural objects and complexes, restoration of disturbed ecosystems. The nature park is expected to create a network of "environmental trails" of varying degrees of complexity. The village is located Ozorovich guest house.

The sanctuary is a classic area of ​​glacial deposits, the last section of the Valdai glaciation. At an altitude of 200-290 m is the band edge glacial formations with a characteristic hilly terrain. In the east, the park covers a large area of ​​undulating plain. The park is rich in unique landscapes. On its territory you can see reminiscent of mountain lakes picturesque lake pits; river valleys, to the outputs of groundwater; a hill covered with pines and firs; open bogs, Tracts interfluvial valleys. In one section of the park are visible manifestations of a glacier, moving huge blocks of coal deposits is 14 km away from their original location.

Territory cuts a dense network of rivers: Lower Courbet Aschina, Sogndal, Tyanuksa, Upper Courbet Urjala, Genoa, Kapsch, Koloshma, Kanji. The area is rich in lakes, differing in shape and size: Pechevskoe, Ozersk, Yandozero, Ashozero, Ladvinskoe, Kurbozero, Kapshozero, Sarozero, Ulozero, Dolgozero, Haraginskoe, Alekseevskoe, Lerins, marsh, and other loons. Most of the lakes are interconnected by short streams and canals.

The forest area is 59% of the territory of the reserve, 37, 5% - bogs 2, 8% - streams and lakes. In the Nature Park is dominated by spruce forests. Most of them - are typical of the middle taiga blueberry spruce on binary deposits and drained loams. Less common bilberry-sphagnum spruce on poorly drained peat soils and torfyanistoperegnoynyh. Almost all of the spruce stands are more than 150 years. A significant part of the area occupied by indigenous spruce, with the age of 200-270 years, which are in different phases of the cyclical natural dynamics. Pine forests occupy a quarter of the forest area is dominated by wetlands. In the southern and western part of the reserve - birch saplings, which were formed in the field of continuous felling of 1970-1980.

Connection forests, different in composition, origin and age is a prerequisite for carrying out research aimed at studying biogeocenotic cover and a comparative study of its dynamics. Research work is underway with 1971-1972 years. The park is a base not only for conducting research, but also for environmental education and education of the population. Ongoing work at the park assist study and restoration of historical and cultural values ​​of this region.

Specially protected objects are very rare in the Russian Northwest old-indigenous spruce and other forest species are not affected by human activity, bogs, dystrophic and oligotrophic lakes, rare plants: bentgrass clavate, polushnik kolyuchesporovy, puhonos turfy, epipogium aphyllum, sphagnum Lindbergh honeysuckle Pallas and others. It found 57 species of birds, many of them protected. It - lun field, goldeneye, peregrine falcon, kestrel, kuksha, grouse, gray heron, nuthatch, black kite, three-toed woodpecker.

The reserve is prohibited to carry out exploration work and develop mineral resources; to conduct an activity that involves a violation of the soil; perform actions that can change the hydrological regime of water bodies and territories .  It is prohibited felling and intermediate use, commercial hunting, harvesting of oleoresin, commercial fishing, commercial harvesting of fruits, wild plants, berries, seeds, fungi of bark, peat and other types of animal and vegetable raw materials, an activity that leads to a breach of data objects flora and fauna, the introduction of living organisms, as well as the placement and construction of industrial, agricultural enterprises, buildings, roads and other communications, except for the relevant activities of the reserve; the use of pesticides and fertilizers, traffic; timber floating, mass recreation .