Azov-Sivash National nature Park - national park located on the Biryuchiy Ostrov spit, in the western part Sea of Azov, within the territory of Kherson region Ukraine.
It was created on February 25, 1993 by transforming the Azov-Sivash reserve into a national natural park.
The total area of the park is 57.4 thousand hectares. All land is owned by the park.
Zoning: reserved zone - 38975.3 hectares, regulated recreation zone - 599.1 hectares, stationary recreation zone - 108.7 hectares, economic zone - 12473 hectares.
Flora: the total number of plant species growing in the park is 308, of which 12 are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine.
Fauna: 250 animal species live on the territory of the NPP, of which 48 are included in the Red Book of Ukraine.
The entire territory of the reserve belongs to the park without other nature users. The protected area is 38 970 hectares, and the economic zone is 12 473 hectares. The park is located within the Prisivash-Priazovskaya lowland region of the Black Sea-Priazovskaya dry-walled province and the Prisivash-Crimean lowland region of the Crimean steppe province of the dry-steppe subzone of the steppe zone of Ukraine.
The issue of granting the status of protected areas to these territories and water areas was raised already in late XIX Art., when their active economic development began. At the end of the 20s of the last century, extensive comprehensive research began here, and already in 1923, Fr. Churyuk, located in the central Sivash. In July 1927, the Nadmorskie Spit reserve was created at the Askania-Nova reserve (in January 1933 it became an independent reserve), which included, in addition to the northern Black Sea coast, the Sivash and the Azov Sea coast. Later (in July 1937), two state nature reserves: Black Sea and Azov-Sivash. After 20 years, the Azov-Sivash reserve was reorganized into the Azov-Sivash state reserve-hunting economy as part of the island. Biryuchy and four more islands of the Central Sivash: Kuyuk-Tuk and Churyuk, Martynyachiy and China. The status of a protected area was also granted to the water area of the 1-kilometer sea strip around the island. Biryuchy and partly the water area around other islands. And, in the end, by the Decree of the President of Ukraine dated February 25, 1993, on the basis of the protected hunting economy, the Azov-Sivash National Natural Park was created in order to preserve the nesting of birds, flora and fauna, unique natural complexes Northern Azov region and for their rational use for scientific, environmental, economic and recreational purposes.
The Sivash-Priazov region is characterized by certain types of landscapes, which do not have continuous distribution within the park and, in addition, are of various types. Biryuchiy Island, together with the Fedotov Spit, belongs to the type of seaside landscapes and is characterized by modern seaside sandy-shell estuary-marine plains with underdeveloped sod-archery saline soils and salt marshes. A special place in the landscape structure of the island is occupied by landscapes of sea and inland bays.
Central Sivash is a brass-type sea bay. Within its boundaries, the so-called "droughts" are distinguished - areas of periodic and constant flooding, which, in anhydrous state, look like hard-loamy sor salt marshes. Its islands are represented by weakly drainage forest-like plains with chestnut medium and strongly solonetzic soils in combination with solonetz and archery saline soils.
The climate of the park territory is moderately continental with sultry long dry summers and relatively short winters with unstable snow cover 5-10 cm thick. The average July temperature is approximately + 24 ° С, with a maximum of + 40 ° С. The amount of precipitation is insignificant and has the smallest indicator - about 260 mm per year. The region is characterized by prolonged droughts with dry winds.
In such climatic and soil conditions, a relatively poor desert steppe and saline vegetation is formed. The coenotic diversity of the park is represented mainly by feather grass and wheatgrass steppes and psammophytic vegetation. According to the dominant classification, there are four bog associations, 10 coastal water associations, 21 salt marshes, and 42 archer associations. Seven steppe associations are included in the Green Book of Ukraine. There are 308 species of vascular plants growing in the park. The Red Book of Ukraine includes 12 species, of which bryophytes and lichens - one species each, and mushrooms - three species.
On the reserved islands of the Central Sivash - Churyuk and Kuyuk-Tuka, which were the least susceptible to anthropogenic influence, true steppe phytocenoses have survived. Here grow the Scythian October, the violet marvel, dry-steppe sage, bristly trinia. Such endemic and narrowly endemic species as Kermek Churyuk, Sivash Scratch, Sivash Smelevka, Biryuchansky Yarrow, as well as Pleistocene relict species, which are found on the territory of Ukraine only in the Sivash region, are widespread: ofaistron monochromatic, tetradiklis tender; in the watersheds there are desert steppes with a significant amount of xerophytic dwarf shrubs in the herbage - Crimean wormwood, kurai modrino, as well as cereals - Becker's boar, Lavrenkov's wheatgrass, Lessing's feather grass and Ukrainian. On many spits, there are the Caspian-Kermek and plantain formations, and on the wet solonchaks of the littoral zone, there is a fairly widespread desert-halophytic vegetation: herbaceous solonetz, sodnik prostrate, tritichinka petrosimony, semi-shrub Kermek, knobby sarsazan and other lutiga tatar.
The coastal regions of the Azov and Black Seas, especially the Sivash with its numerous islands and peninsulas, are home to many birds, which are attracted by the mild climate, rich foraging grounds and well-protected nesting areas from generation to generation. Numerous birds stop here for respite and feeding. It is no coincidence that they say that there is a long flight path here.
Back in 1976, the territory of Sivash (Sivash Bay) with a total area of 45,700 hectares, along with three others, was declared a wetland of international importance, i.e. became the subject of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, mainly as a habitat for waterfowl (Ramsar, 1971). In 1995, by a resolution of the Government of Ukraine, 22 wetlands of international importance were identified, including the Central Sivash with an area of 80,000 hectares (this list also mentions the Eastern Sivash with an area of 165,000 hectares).
The characteristics of sites that meet the criteria of the Ramsar Convention are as follows:
if more than 1 million birds are found in seasonal concentrations throughout the year (gulls, ducks, marsh marshes, waders, mute swan, galagaz, herons and others)
if the rarest endangered species are registered, which are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine: sea plover, stilt, oystercatcher, warbler, black-headed gull and white-tailed eagle.
Near the steppes of the Sivash region and on about. There are bustard, little bustard, steppe and gray crane, field harrier and steppe, golden eagle, spotted eagle, balaban, peregrine falcon, steppe kestrel. There are a total of 30 bird species listed in the Red Book of Ukraine in the park. White-tailed eagle and little bustard are also European Red List items; there may be more than 1% of individuals of the populations of the red-headed goose and the mud-squirrel, which winter here.
At the same time, the poor ornithological complex was at one time the main basis for the creation of a protected hunting economy. Steppe forbs about. Biryuchy contributed to the formation here of numerous populations of acclimatized red deer (in 1992, the maximum number of it was recorded on the island - 830 heads), fallow deer (in 1991 there were 1425 heads), mouflon (987 heads in 1992) and kulan (in 1994 it was 37 heads). Acclimatization work began in 1928. The common pheasant is acclimatized here from hunting birds, the number of which periodically reaches several hundred. Also on about. Biryuchiy created wonderful conditions for the existence of aboriginal species of fauna, for example, the European hare, fox, raccoon dog. Their number, especially given the tense epidemiological situation in the region, has to be constantly regulated.
In general, there are over 5 thousand animal species within the park, including 250 vertebrates. Among the amphibians, the green toad and the lake frog are often found, among the reptiles there are numerous nimble lizards, colorful lizards, common and water lizards. Of the fish, the glossa and kalkan flounders, leopard gobies, boby and Knipovich, Russian sturgeon and stellate sturgeon, as well as the recently acclimatized Far Eastern species of mullet, pilengas, are of industrial importance.
Insects find various ecological niches in the park. For sandy soils, first of all, jumpers, quail, earwigs, bembidions and roveworms are characteristic. Hymenoptera (pompilids, spucida, bees) dig their nests here. Larvae of dragonflies and dipterans develop in the water. There is a wide variety of swimmers, water lovers, whirligig, water meter bugs. There are many oligochaetes and polychaetes with annelids in shallow waters. Meet different types ciliates, sponges, crustaceans, molluscs and representatives of other groups.
In general, the fauna of the park includes: mammals - 17 species, birds - 197, reptiles - 8, amphibians - two species, fish - 26 species, molluscs - 6, arachnids - 3 species, crustaceans - 5 species, ringed worms - 1 species, hydroid polyps - 2 types.
The park also protects many species of animals listed in the Red Book of Ukraine: the great jerboa, the steppe ferret, the azovka dolphin and the four-striped and yellow-bellied runners, the copperhead, the steppe viper, as well as two types of hydroid polyps, one annelid worms and crustaceans, and 5 species insects, including praying mantises (sand empusa and orthoptera iris), hymenoptera (reddish road wasp cryptocholus and swarming gray wasp), as well as snow-white levkomigus of solid-winged animals.
Recently, in the Azov region, work has been carried out to expand the territory of the existing park, primarily at the expense of the water areas of the Central Sivash wetland of international importance, and to create a new national park in the Crimean part of the Sivash ("Eastern Sivash"). This will greatly contribute to the preservation of natural complexes, the restoration of desert-steppe and shallow-water ecosystems, and will be the beginning of a new page in the life of these extremely attractive territories and water areas of southern Ukraine.
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It is located in the Northern Azov region, within the Novotroitsky and Genichesky districts of the Kherson region and the nearby waters of the Azov Sea. It stretches 94 km from west to east, and 33 km from north to south. The total area of the park is 57.4 thousand hectares, of which almost 49 thousand hectares are under the water areas of the central Sivash and a 1-kilometer strip of sea around about. Biryuchiy. The dry land areas assigned to the park have a total area of 8469 hectares, including 7528 hectares in the Genichesk region (Biryuchiy Island and part of Kuyuk-Tuk Island) and 941 hectares in Novotroitskiy (part of Churyuk Island with nearby small islands).
The whole territory nature reserve belongs to the park without other users of natural resources. Protected area is 38 970 hectares, and the economic - 12 473 hectares. The park is located within the Prisivash-Priazovskaya lowland region of the Black Sea-Priazovskaya dry-walled province and the Prisivash-Crimean lowland region of the Crimean steppe province of the dry-steppe subzone of the steppe zone of Ukraine.
The issue of granting status protected these territories and water areas rose already at the end of the 19th century, when their active economic development began. At the end of the 20s of the last century, extensive comprehensive research began here, and already in 1923, by a single at that time nature reserve in the south of Ukraine "Askania-Nova" along with the Black Sea islands annexed about. Churyuk, located on the central Sivash... In July 1927, the Nadmorskie Spit reserve was created at the Askania-Nova reserve (in January 1933 it became an independent nature reserve), which included, in addition to areas of the northern Black Sea coast, areas Sivash and the coast of the Azov Sea.
Later (in July 1937), two state nature reserve: Black Sea and Azovo-Sivash... In 20 years Azov-Sivash reserve was reorganized into Azovo-Sivash state protected hunting economy as part of about. Biryuchy and four more islands of the Central Sivash: Kuyuk-Tuk and Churyuk, Martynyachiy and China. The status was granted protected also the waters of a 1-kilometer sea strip around about. Biryuchy and partly the water area around other islands. And, in the end, by the Decree of the President of Ukraine dated February 25, 1993, on the basis of the reserve-hunting economy, Azov-Sivash National Natural Park in order to preserve the nesting of birds, flora and fauna, unique natural complexes of the Northern Azov region and for their rational use for scientific, environmental, economic and recreational purposes.
The Sivash-Priazov region is characterized by certain types of landscapes, which do not have continuous distribution within the park and, in addition, are of various types. Biryuchiy Island, together with the Fedotov Spit, belongs to the type of seaside landscapes and is characterized by modern seaside sandy-shell estuary-marine plains with underdeveloped sod-archery saline soils and salt marshes. A special place in the landscape structure of the island is occupied by landscapes of sea and inland bays.
Central Sivash is a brass-type sea bay. Within its boundaries, the so-called "droughts" are distinguished - areas of periodic and constant flooding, which, in anhydrous state, look like hard-loamy sor salt marshes. Its islands are represented by weakly drainage forest-like plains with chestnut medium and strongly solonetzic soils in combination with alkaline soils and archery saline soils.
The climate of the park territory is moderately continental with sultry long dry summers and relatively short winters with unstable snow cover 5-10 cm thick. The average July temperature is approximately + 24 ° С, with a maximum of + 40 ° С. The amount of precipitation is insignificant and has the lowest indicator in Ukraine - about 260 mm per year. The region is characterized by prolonged droughts with dry winds.
In such climatic and soil conditions, a relatively poor desert steppe and saline vegetation is formed. The coenotic diversity of the park is represented mainly by feather grass and wheatgrass steppes and psammophytic vegetation. According to the dominant classification, there are four bog associations, 10 coastal water associations, 21 salt marshes, and 42 archer associations. Seven steppe associations are included in the Green Book of Ukraine. There are 308 species of vascular plants growing in the park. The Red Book of Ukraine includes 12 species, of which bryophytes and lichens - one species each, and mushrooms - three species.
On protected islands of Central Sivash- Churyuka and Kuyuk-Tuka, which were the least susceptible to anthropogenic influence, preserved true steppe phytocenoses. Here grow the Scythian October, the violet marvel, dry-steppe sage, bristly trinia. Such endemic and narrowly endemic species as Kermek Churyuk, Sivash Scratch, Sivash Smelevka, Biryuchansky Yarrow, as well as Pleistocene relict species, which are found on the territory of Ukraine only in the Sivash region, are widespread: ofaistron monochromatic, tetradiklis tender; in the watersheds there are desert steppes with a significant amount of xerophytic dwarf shrubs in the herbage - Crimean wormwood, kurai modrino, as well as cereals - Becker's boom, Lavrenkov's wheatgrass, Lessing's feather grass and Ukrainian. On many spits, there are the Caspian-Kermek and plantain formations, and on the wet solonchaks of the littoral zone, there is a fairly widespread desert-halophytic vegetation: herbaceous solonetz, sodnik prostrate, tritichinka petrosimony, semi-shrub Kermek, knobby sarsazan and other lutiga tatar.
Coastal areas of the Azov and Black Seas, especially Sivash with its many islands and peninsulas, it is a concentration of many birds, which are attracted by the mild climate, rich foraging grounds and well-protected nesting areas from generation to generation. Numerous birds stop here for respite and feeding. It is no coincidence that they say that there is a long flight path here.
Back in 1976, the territory Sivash(bay Sivash) with a total area of 45,700 hectares, together with three others, was declared a wetland of international importance, i.e. became the subject of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, mainly as a habitat for waterfowl (Ramsar, 1971). In 1995, by a decree of the Government of Ukraine, 22 wetlands of international importance were already identified, including "Central Sivash"with an area of 80,000 hectares (this list also mentions" Vostochny Sivash"with an area of 165,000 hectares).
The characteristics of sites that meet the criteria of the Ramsar Convention are as follows:
- if more than 1 million birds are found in seasonal concentrations throughout the year (gulls, ducks, marsh marshes, waders, mute swan, galagaz, herons, etc.)
- if the rarest endangered species are registered, which are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine: sea plover, stilt, oystercatcher, warbler, black-headed gull and white-tailed eagle.
Near the steppes of the Sivash region and on about. There are bustard, little bustard, steppe and gray crane, field harrier and steppe, golden eagle, spotted eagle, balaban, peregrine falcon, steppe kestrel. There are a total of 30 bird species listed in the Red Book of Ukraine in the park. White-tailed eagle and little bustard are also European Red List items; there may be more than 1% of individuals of the populations of the red-headed goose and the mud-squirrel, which winter here.
At the same time, the poor ornithological complex was at one time the main basis for the creation reserved-hunting economy. Steppe forbs about. Biryuchy contributed to the formation here of numerous populations of acclimatized red deer (in 1992, the maximum number of it was recorded on the island - 830 heads), fallow deer (in 1991 there were 1425 heads), mouflon (987 heads in 1992) and kulan (in 1994 it was 37 heads). Acclimatization work began in 1928. The common pheasant is acclimatized here from hunting birds, the number of which periodically reaches several hundred. Also on about. Biryuchiy created wonderful conditions for the existence of aboriginal species of fauna, for example, the European hare, fox, raccoon dog. Their number, especially given the tense epidemiological situation in the region, has to be constantly regulated.
In general, there are over 5 thousand animal species within the park, including 250 vertebrates. Among the amphibians, the green toad and the lake frog are often found, among the reptiles there are numerous nimble lizards, colorful lizards, common and aquatic lizards. Of the fish, the glossa and kalkan flounders, leopard gobies, boby and Knipovich, Russian sturgeon and stellate sturgeon, as well as the recently acclimatized Far Eastern species of mullet, pilengas, are of industrial importance.
Insects find various ecological niches in the park. For sandy soils, first of all, jumpers, quail, earwigs, bembidions and roveworms are characteristic. Hymenoptera (pompilids, spucida, bees) dig their nests here. Larvae of dragonflies and dipterans develop in the water. There is a wide variety of swimmers, water lovers, whirligig, water meter bugs. There are many oligochaetes and polychaetes with annelids in shallow waters. There are different types of ciliates, sponges, crustaceans, molluscs and representatives of other groups.
In general, the fauna of the park includes: mammals - 17 species, birds - 197, reptiles - 8, amphibians - two species, fish - 26 species, molluscs - 6, arachnids - 3 species, crustaceans - 5 species, ringed worms - 1 species, hydroid polyps - 2 types.
The park also protects many species of animals listed in the Red Book of Ukraine: the great jerboa, the steppe ferret, the azovka dolphin and the four-striped and yellow-bellied runners, the copperhead, the steppe viper, as well as two types of hydroid polyps, one annelid worms and crustaceans, and 5 species insects, including praying mantises (sand empusa and orthoptera iris), hymenoptera (reddish road wasp cryptocholus and swarming gray wasp), as well as snow-white levkomigus of solid-winged animals.
Recently, in the Azov region, work has been carried out to expand the territory of the existing park, primarily due to the water areas of the wetland of international importance. Sivash, and the creation of a new national park in the Crimean part Sivash("Oriental Sivash This will greatly contribute to the preservation of natural complexes, the restoration of desert-steppe and shallow-water ecosystems, and will be the beginning of a new page in the life of these extremely attractive territories and water areas of southern Ukraine.
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The protected area of national importance is considered the pride of the region. The reserve was founded in the coastal zone of the Kherson region, on a magnificent spit with beautiful nature called Biryuchiy Island. A visit to this untouched site is possible only with a guide and along a clearly marked route.
In 1993, the Azov-Sivash National Natural Park was formed, which united the waters of the Azov and Sivash Lake. The territory of the reserve stretches for 94 km in length and 33 km in width and occupies 57.4 thousand hectares. More than five thousand animals have been recorded here, 48 of which are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine. V different time about a million birds live in coastal areas every year. A unique nature conservation ecosystem with high recreational properties has been formed in the park. Therefore, the administration of the protected area has developed a land route and a sea boat trip. On the territory of the reserve there are a couple of equipped houses where you can stay during the excursion.
The protected area of national importance is considered the pride of the region. We founded a nature reserve in the coastal zone of the Kherson region, on a magnificent spit with beautiful nature called Biryuchiy Island. A visit to this untouched site is possible only with a guide and along a clearly marked route.
In 1993, the Azov-Sivash National Natural Park was formed, which united the waters of the Azov and Sivash Lake. The territory of the reserve stretches for 94 km in length and 33 km in width and occupies 57.4 thousand hectares. More than five thousand animals have been recorded here, 48 of which are listed in the Red Book of Ukraine. At different times of the year, about a million birds live in coastal areas. A unique nature conservation ecosystem with high recreational properties has been formed in the park. Therefore, the administration of the protected area has developed a land route and a sea boat trip. On the territory of the reserve there are a couple of equipped houses where you can stay during the excursion.
The Azov Sea conceals many cozy corners with untouched nature and unique, picturesque landscapes. One of these magical places is and. These lands and water areas received protected status at the end of the 19th century and were carefully protected from that time. Azov-Sivash National Natural Park was created on February 25, 1993 by transformation Azov-Sivash reserve in the national natural park. He spread his possessions on Spit Biryuchiy Island in the Northern Azov Sea, within Novotroitsky and Genichesk districts of the Kherson region and nearby waters of the Azov Sea. 
It stretches 94 km from west to east, and 33 km from north to south, and its total area covers over 57,000 hectares of the territory of the Kherson region. The dry land areas assigned to the park have a total area of 8469 hectares, including 7528 hectares 
in the Genichesk region (Biryuchiy Island and part of Kuyuk-Tuk Island) and 941 hectares in Novotroitskiy (part of Churyuk Island with nearby small islands). The protected area is 38 970 hectares, and the economic zone is 12 473 hectares. 
The park is within Prisivash-Priazovskaya low-lying area Black Sea-Priazovskaya dry-walled province and Sivash-Crimean low-lying area of the Crimean steppe province of the dry-steppe subzone of the steppe zone of Ukraine. History of the formation of the park The issue of granting the status of protected areas to these territories and water areas was raised already at the end of the 19th century, when they began to actively 
economic development. At the end of the 20s of the last century, extensive comprehensive research began here, and already in 1923, Fr. Churyuk, located in the central Sivash. In July 1927 at the "Askania-Nova" .jpg)
a nature reserve was established "Nadmorskie spits"(in January 1933 it became an independent reserve), which included, in addition to areas of the northern Black Sea coast, areas of the Sivash and the coast of the Sea of Azov. Later (in July 1937), two state reserves were organized on its basis: Black Sea and Azov-Sivash... After 20 years, the Azovo reserve was reorganized into the Azov-Sivash state reserve-hunting economy as part of about. Biryuchy and four other islands of the Central Sivash: Kuyuk-Tuk and Churyuk, Martynyachiy and 
China. The status of a protected area was also granted to the water area of the kilometer sea strip around the island. Biryuchy and partly the water area around other islands. And in the end By the Decree of the President of Ukraine dated February 25, 1993 on the basis of the reserve hunting economy was created Azov-Sivash National Natural Park in order to preserve the nesting of birds, flora and fauna, unique natural complexes of the Northern Azov region and for their rational use for scientific, environmental, economic and recreational purposes. Here you can see quaint sandy valleys, sea 
plains and saline formations. The flora of the park can hardly be called rich; it is rather unique in its variety of relict plants. In these feather grass and wheatgrass steppes, there are 12 species of plants listed in the Red Book. On the territories of the protected islands of Kuyuk-Tuk and Churyuk, you can find real rarities: Sivash resin, October Scythian, bristly trinia, violet marvel, Sivash worm and so on. In addition, it is here that rare Pleistocene species grow, which are found on the territory of Ukraine 
exclusively in Sivash region. The climate of the park territory is moderately continental with sultry long dry summers and relatively short winters with unstable snow cover 5-10 cm thick. The average July temperature is approximately + 24 ° С, with a maximum of + 40 ° С. The amount of precipitation is insignificant and has the lowest indicator in Ukraine. Flora in such conditions is formed by relatively poor desert steppe and saline vegetation. The diversity of the park is represented mainly by feather grass and wheatgrass steppes and psammophytic vegetation. For the dominant classification, there are 4 marsh, 10 coastal water, 21 saline.42 archery associations... V
Green Book of Ukraine 7 steppe associations are assigned. Grows in the park
308 species of vascular plants. The Red Book of Ukraine includes 12 species, of which bryophytes and lichens- one species each, and mushrooms - 3 species. On reserved islands Central Sivash - Churyuka and Kuyuk-Tuka, which were the least susceptible to anthropogenic influence, the present steppe phytocenoses.
Here grow the Scythian October, the violet marvel, dry-steppe sage, bristly trinia. Endemic and narrowly endemic species such as kermek are widespread. Churyuk, Sivash scale insect, Sivash smolevka, Biryuchansky yarrow, as well as Pleistocene relict species, which are found on the territory of Ukraine only in the Sivash region: ofaystron single-grained, tetradiklis tender; in watersheds - desert steppes with a significant amount of xerophytic dwarf shrubs in the herbage - wormwood Crimean, kurai fashionable, and .jpg)
cereals - Becker's fossils, Lavrenkov's wheatgrass, Lessing's feather grass and Ukrainian... On many spits, there are the Caspian-Kermek and plantain formations, and on the wet salt marshes of the littoral zone, a rather widespread desert 
halophytic vegetation: herbaceous solonet, prostrate sodnik, tritichinka petrosimonia, semi-shrub kermek, knobby sarsazan, tartar lutiga and others.
Coastal areas Azov and Black Seas, especially the Sivash with their numerous islands and peninsulas, rich forage lands, a favorable, mild climate and well-protected areas - all this attracts many birds to the Azov-Sivash Park, making it popular place nesting. A long flight path passes right here. In one- 
the park's wetlands have become a habitat for many waterfowl - from d Orphus, cranes and golden eagles to the great spotted eagle, balaban and steppe kestrels. Some of them (for example, little bustard and white-tailed eagle) are entered in European red list... Over 5,000 species of various animals live on the territory of the park. Some of them are "aborigines" - fox, hare, raccoon dog, and some were acclimatized in the park - fallow deer and red deer, wild ass and mouflon, from birds - common pheasant. 
Of fish, of industrial importance are plaice glossa and kalkan, leopard gobies, boby and Knipovich, Russian sturgeon and stellate sturgeon and also recently 
an acclimatized Far Eastern species of mullet - pilengas. Insects find various ecological niches in the park. For sandy soils, 
first of all, jumpers are characteristic, quail, earwigs, bembidions and stafffilinids. Hymenoptera ( pompilidae, spucidae, bee). Larvae develop in the water dragonflies and dipterans... There is a great variety swimmers, water lovers, twirls, water meter bugs. Slippery worms there are many oligochaetes and polychaetes... There are different types ciliates, sponges, crustaceans, molluscs and representatives of other groups.
Hunting is permitted here under license (regular and underwater).
The number of rare species of birds and animals is carefully maintained and regulated. Currently, in the Azov region, work is underway to expand the territory of the existing park, primarily due to the water areas of the wetland 
international importance Central Sivash, and the creation of a new national park in the Crimean part of the Sivash ("Eastern Sivash"). This will greatly contribute to the preservation of natural complexes, the restoration of desert-steppe and shallow-water ecosystems, and will be the beginning of a new page in the life of these extremely attractive territories and water areas of the south.
Park administration working hours: daily from 08.00 to 17.00
from 12.00 to 13.00 - lunch
Saturday, Sunday - days off.
Land excursion cost: for an adult - 35 UAH.
for children under 14 years old - 15 UAH.
Price sea excursions on the boat: for an adult - 60 UAH.
for children under 14 years old - 30 UAH.
Inspection natural park possible only with a guide!
Address of Azovo - Sivash National Natural Park:
Ukraine, Kherson region, Genichesk, st. Petrovsky, 54
