On the 100th anniversary of the Berezina Biosphere Reserve (photographic documents from the collections of the BGAKFFD about the Berezina Biosphere Reserve)

1. 1-007955 Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve is 100 years old

In 2025, it will be 100 years since the foundation of the Berezina Biosphere Reserve.

The history of the creation of the reserve dates back to 1924, when the People’s Commissariat of Agriculture of the BSSR sent a group of scientists to the area of the village of Berezino and the river of the same name, who were to determine the possibility of organizing a hunting reserve in this territory. As a result of the commission’s work, the Berezina State Reserve was created in the Berezina River basin on the border of the Vitebsk and Minsk regions. The center of the reserve was the village of Domzheritsy, Lepel district.

For the 100th anniversary of the Berezina Biosphere Reserve, a promotional video was posted on the YouTube channel of the BGAKFFD.

Currently, the funds of the Belarusian State Archive of Film, Photo, and Sound Documents contain more than 180 units of photographic documents from 1963 to 2018 and about 20 units of film documents from 1951 to 2013, related to the Berezinsky Reserve.

Photo and film documents (stories from the newsreels «Savetskaya Belarus», documentaries «Berezinsky Reserve», 1965, «Forest Motifs», 1975, «Nature’s Temple Not Made by Hands», 1989, «In the Kingdom of Cormorants and Herons», 2001, «Why is the Beaver’s Nose Scratched?», 2002, «The Path of the Wolf», 2007, video programs «Video of the Encyclopedia of Belarus. Byarezinsky Byaspheric Reserve», 2013) allow us to see the inhabitants of the reserve in their natural environment, rangers and researchers of the reserve at work, and enjoy the beauty of untouched nature.

In 1979, the Berezinsky Reserve was granted the status of a biosphere reserve.

Nowadays, nature conservation, scientific, ecological-educational, tourist and commercial activities are carried out in the Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve.

2. 1-006072 In the Berezinsky State Reserve July 29, 1963, Vitebsk region

3. 1-006074 Ranger at the dam built by beavers in the Berezinsky State Reserve July 29, 1963, Vitebsk region

4. 0-086246 A family of bison on the territory of the Berezinsky State Reserve August 7, 1968, Vitebsk region

5. 0-105470 Senior Researcher of the Berezinsky State Reserve V. Litvinov 1973, Vitebsk region

6. 0-129039 Preparing fodder for the inhabitants of the Berezina Biosphere Reserve June 1979, Minsk Region

7. 1-008047 In an oak grove of the Berezina Biosphere Reserve July 1979, Vitebsk Region

8. 1-007955 View of the Berezina River on the territory of the Berezina Biosphere Reserve /photo study/ July 1979, Vitebsk Region

9. 1-009656 In the Berezina Biosphere Reserve, located on the territory of the Dokshitsy, Lepel and Borisov districts July 1979, Vitebsk Region

10. 0-120007 Background monitoring station in the Berezina Biosphere Reserve October 31, 1979, Vitebsk region

11. 1-011593 Participants of the 1st International Congress on Biosphere Reserves at the Chernaya Rechka biological station of the Berezina Biosphere Reserve October 1983, Minsk region

12. 1-012778 Senior engineer E.N. Srytnaya during a study of snow samples in the chemical laboratory of the background monitoring station of the Berezina Biosphere Reserve 1985, Minsk region

13. 1-012792 An employee of the Berezina Biosphere Reserve during soil temperature measurements in a raised cotton grass-sphagnum bog in the absolute inviolability zone June 1985, Minsk region

14. 1-012765 View of the hydrometeorological raft of the Domzheritsky station of the Berezina Biosphere Reserve June 1985, Minsk region

15. 1-016943 Ornithologist of the Berezina Reserve I. Byshnev during the ringing of black stork chicks August 1989, Minsk region

16. 0-139714 Schoolchildren assisting the staff of the Berezina Biosphere Reserve in their work, while taking readings from instruments at the hydrometeorological site of the reserve 1996, Minsk region

17. E022861 Photo study «Palette of Autumn». View of the Berezina River in the Berezina Biosphere Reserve October 2004, r. Berezina

18. E011565 View of the Plavno hotel complex of the Berezina Biosphere Reserve, located on the shore of Lake Plavno in the Vitebsk region. October 2006, Vitebsk region.

19. E022528 In the Berezina Biosphere Reserve 2009, Minsk region.

20. E022529 In the Berezina Biosphere Reserve 2009, Minsk region.

21. E023094 Head of the only background monitoring station in Belarus, the Berezina Reserve in the Lepel district, A. Srybny (right) and 1st category meteorologist T. Kurilenok take readings at the station’s research and observation site March 2010, Vitebsk region.

22. E042546 Beaver – an inhabitant of the Berezina Biosphere Reserve December 2013, Minsk region

23. E042544 View of the swamp of the Berezina Biosphere Reserve October 2014, Minsk region

24. E049166 A family of brown bears in an area sown with oats for their food, on the territory of the former village of Postrezhye, located in the Berezina Biosphere Reserve August 27, 2015, Vitebsk region

25. E063105 The Daughter of the King of Dinner – an installation of the ecological trail «In the Land of Myths» of the Mythological Tourism Center in the Berezina Biosphere Reserve August 22, 2017, Vitebsk region

26. E063127 An employee of the state nature conservation institution «Berezina Biosphere Reserve», geographer and soil scientist, candidate of agricultural sciences Vasily Natarov (in the foreground) studies the hydroecological state of the catchment area of the upper reaches of the Berezina River August 23, 2017, Vitebsk region.