Lisino

Lisino lies amid the spruce and pine forests south of Saint Petersburg. In the eighteenth century these woods were reserved for the supply of shipbuilding timber. The Lisino forest estate became a state holding in 1805, and students of the forestry institute began practising their work there. In 1834 an instructional forestry establishment was formally created, bringing the management and planting of trees into the training of foresters on land once valued for the ships it could supply.