EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

Within the territory of the Uzhansky National Nature Park, the beech primeval forests at
the territory 3.000 ha are under protection. The large massifs of the undisturbed primeval
forests are situated in the Novo-Stuzhytske forestry (north-western mesoslope of the Ravka
Mt.), Lubyanske forestry (Vezha Mt.) and also in the Uzhotske forestry (Rozsypanets,
Kinchyk-Bukovskiy Mts. and some others).
2.b.8 Svydovets (Ukraine)
The first reserve here was established is 1936 by the Government of the Czech Republic,
and it was restored by the Government of the Soviet Union in 1974 only as the Svidovets
Reserve. Approximately at the same time the “Blyznytsy Rocks Reserve” was arranged for
conservation of the High-Mountain flora. In 1997 these two sites were united into the
foregoing Svydovets cluster of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve which covers areas on the
north-western and north-eastern macroslopes of the Svydovets Ridge. At present time this
cluster close to the Chornohora cluster represents one natural-territorial complex. Besides, in
the nearest future it is planned to unite this cluster to the Kuziy-Trybushany cluster located to
the south.
2.b.9 Uholka-Shyrokyi Luh.
The great role of the virgin ecosystems of the “Uholka-Shyrokyi Luh” cluster for science
and nature protection was noted by many outstanding botanists a lot of years ago, since 30-th
of the XIX century. While the Transcarpathia was an essential part of the Czech Republic,
Zlatnik (1930) proposed to arrange here the Luzhanskyi Virgin Forest Reserve at the territory
1.404 ha. Afterwards the Uholka Reserve was arranged only in 1958 and the close Shyrokyi
Luh Reserve in 1964 (in limits of the former Soviet Union). Exactly in 1968 the Carpathian
State Reserve was arranged, and the Uholka Reserve was included into it. In 1980 the
Shyrokyi Luh Reserve was joined to the Carpathian State Reserve. At last in 1993 the
Carpathian Biosphere Reserve was arranged at the base of the Carpathian State Reserve, and
its buffer zone was extended to 4.650 ha. As a whole, this action of the Government of
Ukraine has evidently had a great advantage for protection and conservation of the virgin
forests within the Ukrainian Carpathians, Ukraine and Central Europe as a whole.
2.b.10 Vihorlat
In the Vihorlat Mts., several thousand hectares of beech primeval forests remained
untouched due to low demand for beech wood and other factors, such as remoteness or use of
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