The Lokno Lake

The nature monument is located within the boundaries of the municipal area "Pozherevitskaya volost" in the Dedovichi district. A unique, irreplaceable, distinctive, hilly-morainic landscape, a habitat for waterfowl and waterbirds with a rich and unique vegetation, which has a scientific and aesthetic value.

The floristic complex of the nature monument "Lake Lokno" is formed by water, coastal-water, and meadow and forest higher plants growing within the protected zone. It includes 303 species belonging to 184 genera and 70 families. Among the terrestrial vertebral species the most interesting area such as the Great Bittern and the Gray Heron.

There are data that the famous Russian poet Pushkin visited his friend Nikolai Bukharov in his Mikhalevo mansion. Until now, in the Mihalevo park on the shore of Lake Lokno, there is a natural stone sofa, which people call "Pushkin's Stone". According to his contemporaries, Pushkin liked to sit in the shade of a thick giant oak on a sofa embroidered in a natural stone, looking at the waves of Lake Lokno. Tradition says that this giant oak is the very same "An oak tree greening by the sea" (У лукоморья дуб зеленый) sung by the poet in the prologue to the poem "Ruslan and Lyudmila".

The area of the natural monument is 257.5 hectares.

It was declared a specially protected natural area of regional importance in 2007.