Bitsa Park

The Bitza Park (Russian Битцевский парк / Bitzewski Park ) is located on the southwestern outskirts of the Russian capital Moscow and is with over 2200 hectares, the second largest city forest area of ​​the city after the National Park Losiny. The name derives from the Bitza Park, the current flowing through it Bitza Bach is from the river system of the Moscow River.

Location

The park is located on the south-western area of the county and extends from the residential areas of the district Sjusino in the north to municipal satellite Butovo in the south, near which he is cut from the ring road MKAD. To the east of the park, the district Tschertanowo and west is this, the living quarters Beljajewo, Tjoply Stan and Jassenewo. In the latter located since 1990, the metro station Nowojassenewskaja ( Bitzewski Park), immediately adjacent to the park.

Attractions

Because of its relatively rich inventory of plants and animals of the Bitza Park is a nature reserve. For Moscow standards is quite unusual in him found on such the variety of landforms, which includes not only extensive forest areas of various types, but also a number of smaller waters, canyons and ridges. Also, the forest provides habitat species, which otherwise usually are scarce at the Moscow metropolitan area. These include various rodents, hares, foxes, weasels, and - albeit very rarely - the ermine, wild boar and elk; In addition, this breed around 80 species of birds.

Furthermore, there are also several architectural monuments in the park, especially the old country castles Uskoje, Jassenewo and Znamenskoye - Sadki from the 18th and 19th centuries. Also a number of burial mounds dating from the 11th or 12th century were found on the territory of the park, which point to the former settlement of the area by Wjatitschen.

Trivia

In the 1980s there were plans to relocate the Moscow Zoo on a site within the Bitza parks, but were later discarded. In connection with these plans, the Metro station Bitzewski Park received a second, east exit, which leads almost immediately into the woods in their construction. When the plans failed, this output has been closed due to lack of use. The unused, sealed Außenvestibül is, however, until today.

More recently, the park several times went in headlines in connection with the serial killer Alexander Pitshushkin who has allegedly killed on the territory of the park in the years 1992-2006 up to 62 people. This brought him in the local press also nicknamed Bitza killer.