Buzuluksky Bor National Park

Buzuluksky Bor National Park
Бузулукский бор (Russian)
IUCN category II (national park)
Borovka River in Buzuluk forest
Location of Park
Location	Samara Oblast and Orenburg Oblast
Nearest city	Samara
Coordinates	53°00′N 52°07′E / 53.000°N 52.117°E / 53.000; 52.117
Area	106,000 hectares (261,932 acres; 1,060 km2; 409 sq mi)
Governing body	Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (Russia)

Buzuluksky Bor National Park (Russian: Бузулукский бор) encompasses the Buzuluk Pine Forest, which is the largest grove of isolated high pine trees in the world.^[1] It is surrounded by steppes on the East European Plain east of the Volga River and west of the foothills running up to the southern Urals. This makes it an important habitat for scientific study, and is the site of the earliest forest management area in Russia. It is about 70 miles east from the city of Samara, Russia, and 15 km north of the town of Buzuluk, Orenburg Oblast.

About 106,000 hectares (261,932 acres) in size, Buzuluksky is a triangular patch of forest measuring roughly 53 km North-South, and 34 km West-East.^[2] It straddles the border of Samara Oblast (Region) and Orenburg Oblast (Region), with approximately half of its area in each. The park was officially constituted as a National Park in 2007, but has been a forestry management area since the early 1800s.