The Curonian Spit is a national park and a sandy peninsula separating the freshwater Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea. In fact, the Curonian Spit is a sandy beach with a width of 400 meters to almost 4 kilometers, stretching for 98 kilometers from Zelenogradsk Kaliningrad region to the city of Klaipeda in Lithuania. The territory of the spit belongs to both countries.
For 200 years, the Curonian Spit is one of the favorite vacation spots for Russian, German and Lithuanian tourists. They are attracted by long clean sandy beaches on the coast of the Baltic Sea and the unique nature of the area. So in a small area of the spit there are mobile and fixed sand dunes, pine, spruce forests, birch forests covered with moss and lichen meadows ... In one day you can swim in the fresh waters of the Curonian Lagoon and the salty ones - the Baltic Sea.
On the Russian part of the spit there are settlements Rybachy, Morskoye and Lesnoy, whose population amounts to almost one and a half thousand people. They belong to the territory of the Zelenograd district. The national park "Curonian Spit" was established in 1987 - it is one of the oldest and smallest national parks in Russia. But, despite the "miniature", the Curonian Spit annually meets hundreds of thousands of guests.
For the convenience of guests in the park there are pedestrian paths with several routes. In the way tourists will meet signs, maps and schemes and information boards that help to better orient themselves. Containers for garbage and biotoilets are also provided.
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How to get here
The Curonian Spit is located on the territory of the Zelenograd District of the Kaliningrad Region. Entry here as a unique natural national park is paid, but prices do not "bite". Passengers of minibuses, buses, trucks pay 30 rubles per person. Entry on the motorcycle - 130 rubles. The entry of cars (up to 6 seats), minibuses (up to 8 seats) in category "B" - 250 rubles, on motor vehicles of category "C" - 500 rubles.
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Climate
A characteristic feature of the spit is the prevalence of good weather: when it rains in Kaliningrad, the sun shines most often here. The whole strip is covered with a dense pine forest, protecting it from the vagaries of nature.
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Dunes of the Curonian Spit
The history of the area is more than a thousand years old. Presumably, the Curonian Spit was organized from several islands. On their coast, the sand brought by the sea settled, the shoals increased in size, and then merged into the peninsula. Today the so-called body of the spit consists of sand, covered with a thin layer of vegetation just a few centimeters thick. To many it seems amazing how a layer of grass is kept in the sand and not blown away by the wind.
The sand brought by waves to the shore is blown away by winds to the land, forming numerous dunes of the Curonian Spit. There are a lot of them here, and they are the highest in Russia. On the one hand - this is a very curious natural phenomenon, on the other - a big problem of local residents. Over time, under the influence of the wind, the dunes move, so the history of the Curonian Spit is largely the history of the struggle with mobile dunes.
Until the 16th and 17th century, the movement of the dunes was restrained by densely planted forests, but by the 19th century they were practically cut down. As a result - the rapid advance of dunes to villages and villages, some even were covered with sand. To save the remaining settlements, it was decided to plant trees again. Catch in the sand could only pine. With their crowns, they protect the sand from the wind, thus creating a kind of protection for people.
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