Zapovednik Kivach is situated in the southern part of Republic Karelia. It was
established in 1931. Its area is 10.9 thousand ha.
The Zapovednik is located northwest of Lake Onezhskoye between Lake Eundozero in the
north and Lake Pertozero in the south.
The topography features selga protrusions of the crystalline shield combined with
hilly-moraine and flat water-glacier plains. The Zapovednik is named after the waterfall
on the Suna River, 10-7 m high. It ranks the second among the plain waterfalls in Europe
after the Rhine waterfall.
The plant cover is middle-taiga forests, pine forests prevailing on bedrock outcrops
and pine-spruce forests on a hilly moraine and spruce forests on water-glacier deposits.
There are numerous mires. The mammal dwellers are the brown bear, wolf, red fox,
badger, marten, European polecat, otter. In the avian fauna waterbirds are the most
abundant, including loons, Anseriformes, waders, cranes and gulls.
