The biggest hydro-graphical value is Vistytislake, located in the middle of the hilly surroundings next to the 400-year-old town of Vistytis which has preserved its original structure perfectly.
Biologically, the main value of Vistytis Regional Park are the mature broadleaf forests, especially the mixed stands of oak, horn beam and lime trees.
Vistytis town square and street network of the central part of town are urban monuments.
The name of the Viðtytis Lake has been many time mentioned in chronicles of the Teutonic Order since the 14th century.
The town must have received the name from the lake (that means "chicken") and was built in the beginning of the 16th century during the colonization of southern territories in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
On the other hand nobody denied a hypothesis the old Prussians or the Sudovians might have settled around fleeing from the Teutonic crusaders in the 15th century as dialect of town dwellers slightly differs from the rest dialect group in Southern Lithuania.
While the waters of Lake Champlain continue to cool down and some of her small bays show signs of freezing over for the winter, our efforts to return her to what she once was must continue to move forward.
The Lake District National Park Authority is selling off prime woodland and properties as it faces up to the most serious financial crisis in its 54-year history.
The river is now receiving approximately 33,700 gallons of water per second from the lake, which is polluted with phosphorous and cloudy with suspended sediments.
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At the Vistytis border, Brazauskas met with border servicemen and local population who showed him the border which existed previously.
The segment of border crossing LakeVistytis is the central problem pending in Lithuanian-Russian border talks.
Private boats from Western Europe and especially fishermen whose boats are based in Estonia on Lake Peipus have recently violated the border of the Russian Federation.
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Vistytis regional park is located on the borders of Poland and Kaliningrad region, with the purpose of preserving natural, cultural, and recreational areas in south-western Lithuania.
The region’s plains are fertile, and the woodlands of this flat region, though not large, occupy more than half of the park.
The 400-year-old town of Vistytis has preserved its original structure perfectly and along LakeVistytis there are campsites available.
When the Russian Duma (parliament) will ratify the border treaty Lithuania will lease 525 ha (31,6%) of the Lake of Vištytis for at least 49 years, and the boundary will follow the western map boundary, according to an agreement signed 24 Oct 1997.
To visit their parents they need to go through the border post in Kybartai, 24 km north of Vistytis, to wait in the lines often lasting for five to six hours to be let in to Russia, and then go some 38 km on Russian roads to get practically back to Lithuania.
This approximately border is drawn in to the enlarged 1:130 000 map which already has got drawn on it the Vistytis borderlines of the future.
Wetlands shared by the Kalingrad region of Russia and Lithuania are located along the Neman (Nemunas) River valley and near Lake Vishtynetskoe.
Some other potential Ramsar sites have been identified such as LakeVistytis (Regional Park in Lithuania, Nature Reserve in Russia) and areas located between the Sesupe and Nemunas Rivers in the Kaliningrad Region which border upon the Viesvile Strict Nature Reserve and Ramsar site in Lithuania.
Lakes of the Vishtynetskoe group and adjacent wet forest
Algirdas Brazauskas has stressed he is seeking to have LakeVistytis divided equally between Lithuania and Russia, BNS reported.
The border through LakeVistytis is the only stumbling block to the signing of a border treaty between Lithuania and Russia.
Kaliningrad Oblast is claiming all of the lake, while Lithuania wants to halve it on the basis of the pre-war border treaty between Lithuania and Germany.
The new amendment would enshrine the accreditation of foreign diplomats by the president and not the chairman of Parliament, as ws previously.
To better mark the Lithuanian and Russian border, over 300 buoys were set in LakeVistytis that runs along the southeastern border of the Kaliningrad exclave.
The markings were the first executive actions after ractifying the Lithuanian - Russian border agreement that came into action last year.
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Bilateral talks have been interrupted by a long three-month break.
Disagreement remains largely over the issue of border demarcation along LakeVistytis.
Lithuania is unwilling to accept a 39-hectare area and be deprived of Vistytis waters, whereas Russia does not want to divide LakeVistytis area into equal parts.
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Picture 1: Entering the Lithuanian state border protection zone with Russia at Vistytis.
Here I stand on the shores of the lake, looking at the coastline where Russia and Poland almost meet yet where I cannot visit because I do not have a visa.
Written by been there-again-again on June 23, 2002
Areas surrounding the lake are partly owned by, Lithuania, Russia, Poland.
