Сосновый Лес, Protected natural area in Lipetsk, Russia

Sosnovyy Les is a protected forest area in Lipetsk that spans approximately 11 hectares across two districts of the city. Pine trees form the main forest composition, mixed with maple, chestnut, birch, and apple trees throughout the terrain.

Sosnovy Les is a local nature monument in Lipetsk, covering both banks of the upper Lipovka River in the Oktyabrsky and Sovetsky districts. Its ravine slopes are bounded by road embankments. The site is studied as an example of how artificial basins develop in gullies, and it forms a green corridor with Kameny Log, Verkhny Park, Nizhny Park, Victory Park and Petrovsky Pond.

The tract is a local nature monument where the Lipovka River's upper reaches have drawn kingfishers, waders and ducks, including mallards, into the city. Its birdlife also counts the grey partridge, hawfinch and black swift, and the river holds fish in summer.

The tract lies in the 19th microdistrict on both banks of the upper Lipovka River, its edges running along the ravine slopes and bounded west and east by an asphalt road embankment and a dirt road. Access is from the surrounding residential streets of Oktyabrsky and Sovetsky okrugs.

The Lipovka, a small river flowing through the upper reaches of the gully, has brought a rise in bird variety: ducks, waders and kingfishers are now recorded here, and fish have been noted in the water in summer. The site also shelters the common pheasant's relative, the grey partridge, alongside the common European viper and the red-bellied fire-bellied toad.