In the Vyborg district, not far from the villages and Ozerskoye Balahanovo, located state natural reserve "Shallow Lake", covering an area of ​​about 4000 hectares, of which more than 1,000 hectares occupied by water.

The reserve was founded in 1976. He is the subject of regional importance. To reach the sanctuary rail station Losevo is necessary for road transport through the villages and Daisies New Village to get to the left bank of river. Vuoksa. The reserve is located nearby.

The main purpose of the reserve - to keep intact the place of the annual breeding waterfowl.

Reserve Located in the south of the Baltic shield and includes a lake Meadow and shallow with the surrounding water areas. Both lakes and their tributaries are linked and are part of Vuoksinskie system. Lake - shallow, their territories are small island and Ludy, which serve as the basis huge boulders. Surface of the lake has a quagmire of wild cinquefoil. Here grow manna grass, horsetail, water lilies, reeds, Potbelly, cattail, telorez. The coastal flora consists mainly of small-leaved Lesniak and pine groves on the hills. In the undergrowth growing juniper, wild cherry, honeysuckle, mountain ash. The lowlands are birch groves and olshanovye. The territory has depleted grasslands, on which you can often find the wood kupyr.

Since the lakeside and lake area rich in food, are arranged during the spring and autumn migration of waterfowl flocks. Here you can meet nesting whooper swans and Bewick's Swans, almost any type of dabbling ducks, tufted duck and sea, flocks of Gogol, pochards, coots, moorhens and numerous clusters of riparian passerines, shorebirds. Particularly numerous in the annual reserve population of dabbling ducks, coots, Gogol, and Tufted Duck. Often you can see on the lakes colony gulls bird species, among which are blue-gray and black-headed gull, black tern and the river. Part of the "guests" of lakes and lakeside areas are water shepherdess, crake, corncrake, herbalist, moorhen, porucheyniki. Shallow lakes and meadows, is a favorite hunting ospreys, whose nests are located in the woods near the lake.

Muskrat, mink, beaver and river water vole are common inhabitants of these places. On the shore of the lake you can find elk and wild boar family.

Specially protected objects of the reserve are nesting colonies of birds, the feeding of birds during seasonal migrations, spawning bream, perch, burbot, roach. State protected plants listed in the Red Book, rare plants and fauna, such as living here ospreys, Nuphar pumila, corncrake, porucheynik, water shepherd, Crake, bittern, gray cranes, all kinds of birds of prey, owls, swans (mute, small), Lesser White-fronted Goose and Greylag Goose, Brent Goose, Barnacle Goose, red-eyed and the ferruginous dive, large and medium-curlew, snipe.

The reserve "Lake Shallow" is strictly prohibited to use outside the carriageways of roads and near lakes vehicles, grazing livestock from nearby farms and farms, the use of motorized vessels, visiting the lake islands, reed beds, splavinah, starting from 1 April to 15 July, any types of hunting game, the use of snares and traps, bait with poison, fires, descend burns, use for any purpose, pesticides or insecticides, mowed (until July 6), fishing outside the designated zones, which are located in the south of shallow lakes . Under the ban - tourist parking, construction on the islands and shores of lakes bivouacs. In addition, the reserve is prohibited to pass the dogs of any breed (from April 1 to July 15).