Attractions of Bohdanivka

National Nature Park "Zalissya" offers visitors outdoor recreation, wildlife observation, cycling routes, horseback riding and other activities in a pine-oak forest near Kyiv, 40 kilometers from the center of the capital along the Chernihiv highway.

This protected area on the left bank of the Desna River covers an area of ​​14,836 hectares. Most of it, fenced off, is one giant enclosure, where about 1,500 deer live in semi-free conditions, as well as hundreds of fallow deer, roe deer, elk, wild boars, hares, etc.

The park was created in 1957 as Zalissya State Forestry and Hunting Farm to organize recreation and hunting entertainment for senior state officials and official delegations of foreign countries. Soviet general secretaries Mykyta Khrushchov and Leonid Brezhnyev, as well as the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, had their country residences here. Their houses are located in the closed part of the national park, which is still one of the presidential residences as part of the State Administration of Affairs.

Since 2014, the main territory of the Zalissya National Park has been open to all visitors. Tourist routes and eco-trails for hiking, cycling and car tourism have been laid across its territory. There is an opportunity to visit the Museum of Nature, see the Big and Small Lakes, visit the stables with thoroughbred horses, etc.

But the main attraction of the park is the opportunity to see large herds of wild animals up close. The best conditions for this are in winter, when the animals approach the feeders located along the roads, and the green mass of the undergrowth does not interfere with observations.

The Zalissya National Park remains a restricted object, so visiting it must be agreed with the administration in advance. You can only move around the territory accompanied by a gamekeeper. Visiting the closed territory of the residence is possible only by organized groups according to previously agreed lists.