In the Leningrad region, 10 km from the city of Primorsk is a group of islands and a peninsula Kiperort. The beautiful nature is preserved intact, giving thanks in 1976, the status of the territory of the State of the complex nature reserve. Its area - 11295 hectares, more than half of which is - the Gulf of Finland. The task of creating the reserve "Vyborg" - the protection of the landscape area, the preservation of the coastal areas of vegetation and unique species of plants and rare animals Kiperort Peninsula.

The reserve is famous for its berry places. In Sosnovik a lot of strawberries, cranberries, blueberries. In the lowlands you can find bogs with a variety of rare species of mosses and lichens. Among the unique plants - amfiatlantichesky gale marsh views.

The territory is covered by forests of linden, oak, ash. In the reserve there are places free of trees and shrubs, it is - meadows, sandy coast, where tourists often like to have a rest. With a spinning rod or they arrange fishing hunt different fish that are left to spawn: perch, bream, whitefish, herring, smelt perch, eel. It happens here and Baltic cod, garfish, lumpfish. Because amphibians are inhabited crested newt, and from this kind of as the reptile was prescribed too ordinary.

In the spring you can see a massive parking waterfowl. In shallow stop transiting whooper swans and tundra, merganser, dabbling and diving ducks, geese, black and barnacle goose, various shorebirds, gulls, gray cranes and other birds. Autumn stop here to rest and sustenance land birds: pigeons (wood pigeon, klintuha), woodpeckers, owls. They live here and several species of bats, especially the number reaches a peak in the spring and autumn migration. For permanent nesting chosen Vyborg Reserve Oystercatcher, Turnstone, herbalist, scaup, black brant, polar, black and little tern, gull, dunlin, Caspian tern.

Hilly terrain - perfect. It found valuable rocks on some islands are composed of granite rocks, the locals gave them a beautiful name - Selga.

For those who like to enjoy the diverse flora and fauna of the forest entrance is always open here. In a picturesque corner of nature leisure travelers, including entire families, many fishermen. For lovers of travel reservoirs have a special tourist route. On the ship, guests can enjoy the natural areas of the Gulf of the Karelian Isthmus. However, there are limitations in the reserve, which can not be violated. It is forbidden here to collect birch sap, mushrooms, fruits, berries, harvest the bark, medicinal raw materials for industrial purposes. You can not make a mess, to arrange illegal dumps, parking in the wrong place, campfires on unequipped areas. It is also forbidden to hunt game birds in the spring, the use of snares completely excluded.

However, there are always fans disrupt the environmental legislation of the Russian Federation, and the poachers have chosen tidbit fauna natural complex. Therefore, Leningrad Security Institution "Cancer lake" strictly follows the order. But guests who comply with the rules set out in the environmental committee of the reserve north of the capital and the country's laws, there are always waiting. To get to the reserve "Vyborg" is possible by car, bus or train from St. Petersburg to the Pribilof station. Further arranged on the peninsula Kiperort vehicles and boats - on the island.