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National Park "Belavezhskaya Pushcha"

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National Park "Belavezhskaya Pushcha" (380 km from Minsk). Located part in Belarus and part in Poland Belavezhskaya Pushcha is a National Park, a Biosphere Reserve and an Europe's last surviving primeval forest which has preserved its prehistoric nature with relic plants and animals, the European bison in the first place. And as such it is placed on the United Nations World's Heritage list. UNESCO gave the Pushcha the status of biosphere reserve. Thus Pushcha entered a world system for surveying changes in the environment. This National Park located in the southwest of Belarus, at 340 km from Minsk. Its territory is about 90,000 hectares. The flora and fauna of the Belavezha Forest Reserve is remarcable because of the great number of various types of plants and animals. Experts registered here more than 1000 oaks aged 300-700 years, 450-year-old ash-trees, 220-year-old pine-trees, 150-year-old junipers. You can also find here white firs, various types of spruce, pines, hornbeams. The governmental residence was built in the part of Pushcha called Viskuli. The World learnt about Viskuli in December 1991 when the USSR ceased to exist. It is in Viskuli where the leaders of three Slavonic republics of the USSR were summoned to dissolve the Soviet Union.

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