На кладовищах Чорнобильської зони збережені старовікові дерева

03.11.2026, 02:01◉ 02 min readEditorial team “SHCHO STALOSIA”

Кладовища Чорнобильської зони стали рефугіумами для збереження старовікових дерев. — Укрінформ.

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На кладовищах Чорнобильської зони збережені старовікові дерева

This was told in the publication of Ukrinform by the researchers of the Askania-Nova Biosphere Reserve named after f.e. Falz-Fein, Doctor of Philosophy Nadiya Skobel and Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Ivan Moisienko.

According to Moisienko, he was struck by the large number of age-old trees (pines and oaks) in many cemeteries in the area.

As Nadiya Skobel emphasized, the idea of the study was to show the cemeteries of the Chernobyl zone as refugiums for the preservation of ancient trees.

According to her, although this is a protected area, such trees have not been preserved outside the cemeteries, because even in Soviet times they were constantly chopped down for firewood, for example, the same oak. And in the cemeteries, trees were not touched for sacred reasons and they were afraid of damaging the graves. For example, the thickest oak found during the expedition in the cemeteries in this area is 446 cm, it is alive.

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As reported by Ukrinform, at the cemeteries on the territory of the Right-Bank cereal steppe (Mykolaiv, Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk regions), scientists found more than 700 species of plants, of which more than 60 are protected species.

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"The oaks that we found to be more than 4 meters in girth, I think, can be at least 200 years old, or even more. It is clearly visible that there are old oaks in the cemetery, and around there is either a young forest or beds on the site of the fields. Obviously, most of the cemeteries we studied are old, because these age-old trees have been preserved there.