Main wealth Of the velikobereznyansky district – this is the forest. Even at the beginning of the twentieth century, the authorities began to think about the issue of preserving these forests of the Carpathians. In 1908 it was founded reserved territory beech forest “Quiet” and “cold”. Now these territories are part of the international biosphere reserve “Eastern Carpathians”. In 1999, the uzhansky national nature Park was created, which is now part of the international reserve “Eastern Carpathians”.
Uzhansky nature Park stretches along the upper reaches the Uzh river from Uzhotsky pass the village of Zabrod is 45 kilometers away. The area of the Park is as much as 39,159 ha. Hundreds of species grow on the lands of this unique reserve medicinal plant, a significant part of which are listed in the Red book of Ukraine. On the territory parkathere are dozens of rare species animals, birds and fish.
In 2007, a significant part of the Park’s forests was included in the UNESCO list.
On the territory of the Uzhansky national natural Park, eight species have been studied cave. Most likely, there may be much more caves in these places and they are still waiting for their discovery. Five of the most famous caves are located on Menchil mountain, namely: “Zigzag” (length-7.2 meters, depth-4 meters), “branched” (length-41 meters, depth-3-4 meters), “terrarium “(8 meters long, 2 meters deep),” deep “(31.7 meters long, 8.5 meters deep) and” Rolling Stones ” (113 meters long, 21 meters deep). Near the villages of Novaya Stuzhitsa and Zagorb there are caves a Meter-long pit and a Small One. Tourists these caves are rarely visited, and therefore they are almost intact preserved flora and fauna and environmental purity. Most of these caves are places where bats spend their days and winter. Transcarpathians sometimes called these caves “ivanskii wells,” that is the robber’s hiding places. During bothFirstduring the Second world war, the caves were used as blindages’.
Uzhansky nature Park 
