Nizhnyaya Kama National Park

Nizhnyaya Kama is a national park of Russia located in the Republic of Tatarstan. The park was founded in 1991 on a territory of 265 km². The border of the park runs near Elabuga and the Embankment of Chelny and Nizhnekamsk. The terrain is wavy, divided by rivers and streams, as well as divided into two by the Kama River, on which there is a hydroelectric dam, forming a large Nizhnekamsk reservoir. Further dams have been preserved by rare flood communities, where there are many ancient lakes that reach a length of 1,500 meters.

The park is located at the junction of the broad-leaved forest zone and meadow steppes. This arrangement gave a rich relief and biological abundance. For example, in the Kzyl-Tau tract, located in the Belous Forest, the southernmost habitat of the Siberian fir is located.

Rare plants grow in the park like jugs of clean white, cubes yellow, toothed straw. Some of them, like shoes, large-flower and pollen are in the Red Book. The typical inhabitants of the forest part of the park are: moose, lynx, badgers, proteins, marten; in rivers and lakes, you can meet beavers, ondatra, otter. Of the rare animals in the park you can find a flight, chipmunk, cedar, fishing rod, ligamentary. You can also see: storks, skop, snake-eaters, balbans, swans-chipuns, filins, shortcuts, moons that are listed in the Red Book.

Lower Kama National Park is closely associated with the native of Elabuga, the great painters Ivan Shishkin. Here he painted pictures: « Holy key near Elabuga », « Landscape with pine », « Ship Grove ». A trip to Elabugu will be no less entertaining, since the city is a museum-reserve of architecture and culture.

Lower Kama National Park has many sightseeing and hiking trails.

• « Red Hill near Elabuga » - Out of ancient times, the townspeople walked along the Red Hill, so named for their beauty. They are attracted to this: views of the Kama River, lakes, city mosques.
• « Holy Key near Elabuga » - The tour originates on the road built by order of Catherine II. Passes through the pine forest, peat bogs, lakes, floodplain meadows, introduces travelers to the historical component of the park and its ecosystem.
• « Big Bor » - Walking along this route will be interesting for botanical lovers, since the trail runs along the growing areas of rare and "red-book" plants
• « Forest Lakes » - Continuation of the tour « Big Bor », introducing visitors to geological features, its vegetation and the world of animals, as well as passing by a network of small forest lakes.
• « Ancestors TAKA » - The path runs through places where archaeologists discovered the parking lots of ancient people, burial grounds.
• « Ship Grove » - The route is interesting from the point of view of science and history, since the border of the habitat of the Siberian fir passes here. These forests were noticed even in time by Peter I, making them the Ship Grove of the Kazan Admiralty.
• « Shishkinsky Krai » - The route passes through those places that inspired the landscape painter to write paintings, and also introduces lakes, sources, and antiquities of archeology. The length of the track is approximately 65 km.
• Water route - A dietary route passing along the rivers Toima, Kama and Kriusha.