Gladyshevsky Sanctuary

The Gladyshevsky Nature Reserve is located on the coast at the mouth of the Chernaya River, in the vicinity of Zelenogorsk and the settlement of Molodyozhnoye. Its territory contains middle-aged coniferous and deciduous forests, heavily disturbed by the Second World War and subsequent forestry, and on the sandy shore of the Gulf of Finland there are valuable plant communities with lyme grass, honkenya, and sea pea. Hunting, collecting, and extraction of protected species are prohibited in the reserve, as is the movement of motorized watercraft on Lake Gladyshevskoye and the Velikaya and Gladyshevka rivers. The name of the area comes from the former village of Vanhasaha, which translates as "Old Sawmill," where a sawmill was built in the 18th century by decree of the Russian monarch, and later a paper mill and a mill operated.