Yugyd Va National Park
Yugyd Va National Park was established in 1986 and is located in the Komi Republic. This park thanks to its territory of 18,917 km2 is the largest national park throughout Russia, which is also on the UNESCO World Heritage List as the « Komi Forest ».
Yugyd wa is indeed a very large – area of the park spread immediately in 3 districts of the Komi Republic: Pechorsky, Intinsky, as well as Vuktylsky and are located on the western parts of the sub-district of the Polar and Northern Urals. About 60 percent of the park is occupied by a remote forest. On the south side, the park is adjacent to the Pechoro-Ilychsky reserve.
Birch, larch, spruce and cedar grow in the forests of Yugyd. In addition, this park is considered the largest mass of dark-faced taiga in Europe. The landscape of this area is very beautiful: mountain, foothill, field zones. I would especially like that industrial facilities did not reach these places - nature is really not mutilated by people, here is all one village of the Underline.
Yugyd Park is famous for its vast diversity of mammals, approximately 43 species, as well as 190 species of birds. « Yugyd wa » in translation from the Komi language means « clean / light water ». Huge rivers, tributaries of Pechora, begin in the foothills of the mountains of the Urals. The most respectable of them are Shchugor, Kozhim, Podcherem, Big Son and Kosya. The water in these rivers is so clean that you can quite easily examine its bottom at a depth of about eight meters. Naturally, such pure water was not left by the uninhabited marine inhabitants of – Pechora salmon, harius, sig, cheese, timen and so on live in the rivers. However, fishing is strictly prohibited in this territory. In addition to rivers, the park also has more than 80 lakes, but most of them are located in the highlands.
Tourists are most attracted by the mountainous regions of this park Yugyd va. The spurs of the Northern Urals are located in the southern part of this zone, here the peaks of the mountains are smooth and lack of forest. This area is not quite high – the highest point here is a mountain called Telpos, which is located at an altitude of 1617 meters. The circumpolar Urals are the most picturesque. Some of the most impregnable points of the Urals are here: Mount Narodnaya - at an altitude of 1895 meters, Kolokolnya – at an altitude of 1640 meters, Saber – at an altitude of 1425 meters, as well as Mount Manaraga – at an altitude of 1662 meters, which is a kind of symbol of the park.
Yugyd Va National Park is increasingly popular from year to year. The park management is trying in every possible way to develop more and more tours for tourists, as well as viewing platforms and tour parks. Often, Czechs, Poles, Finns, and bellows come to the park to admire the local species and conquer the mountains, swim along the Kozhim, Shchugor River or Podcherem.
