Липичанская пуща, Nature reserve in Grodno Region, Belarus

Lipichanskaya Pushcha is a landscape reserve of republican significance in the Grodno Region, covering 15,153 hectares across the Mostovsky, Dyatlovsky and Shchuchinsky districts. It lies on the left bank of the Neman in the lower reaches of the Shchara, on a flat floodplain with oxbow lakes and low hills, crossed by a meandering channel with sandbars and sandy islands. Heather-and-moss pine stands grow on water-glacial and ancient alluvial sands, with blueberry and wood-sorrel spruce forests, birch and black alder woods, and floodplain oak groves along the Neman whose trees reach 230 years.

The Lipichanskaya Pushcha massif was crown forest from the 14th–15th centuries, later granted to noble families. In the 18th century the Radziwiłłs and Chreptowicz families mined bog iron near the Pad'yavarka and Chernyavka rivers, founding the villages of Ruda Yavarskaya and Ruda Lipichanskaya; the forest took its name from the Chreptowicz estate of Lipichna. From December 1943 to 12 July 1944 the partisan brigade "Pobeda" operated here under Pavel Bulak. The reserve was created on 8 October 2002 by government decree No. 1387.

The reserve's name comes from the Lipichanskaya Rudnya iron-ore works, founded by the Chatsviartynski family, whose manor Lipichna stood on the right bank of the Neman; the name later covered the whole forest between the Neman and Shchara. Among the sites visitors can reach are a Neolithic burial mound, a dwelling site of ancient people from the middle of the 1st millennium BC, an old hillfort and the Holy Trinity Spring.

The reserve has multiple entry points and trails that lead through different habitat zones for wildlife viewing. The best conditions for visiting occur during warmer months when trails are dry and easier to walk.

The reserve contains sand dunes covered with pine forests that showcase natural wind-shaped landforms. These dune formations with their forest cover represent a rare combination that reveals how wind has molded the landscape over time.