Khvalynsky National Park, National park in Saratov Oblast, Russia

Khvalynsky National Park is a nature reserve in Saratov Oblast featuring chalk hills along the Volga River. The landscape displays mixed forests of oak and linden trees alongside coniferous woodlands, with elevations reaching about 369 meters at the highest points.

Khvalynsky National Park was created by a Russian government decree on 19 August 1994, initially covering 25,514 hectares of state forest land. It was assembled from three forest districts: Khvalynsky (7,357 ha), Alexeyevsky (8,527 ha) and Sosnovo-Mazinsky (9,630 ha). On 23 April 2004 a protected buffer zone of 114,924 hectares was added by the Saratov Oblast government, bringing the total to 140,438 hectares.

The park's museum called Derevenskoe Podvorye displays tools, household items, and craft techniques from villages surrounding the Volga. You can see how local people lived and worked in past times through these objects and their arrangement.

The park offers guided tours through Khvalinskoe safari experiences and overnight stays in family-run guesthouses. Information centers located in recreation zones help visitors plan their time and find the areas they want to explore.

The park's bedrock is chalk and marl, not limestone, and its recorded insect fauna numbers 339 species. The chalk hills are the highest part of the Volga Uplands, with Mount Belenkaya reaching 369 m and five other summits above 250 m. The Volga also reaches its greatest depth, 22 m, within the park.