Lake Seliger
After the trip, Innokenti Gerasimov returned to the idea of creating nature parks in the USSR, in 1965 he proposed the creation of a Baikal nature park. A similar natural park was also designed in the Lake Seliger area on the Valdai Hills. In 1966, the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda published an article by Innokenti Gerasimov and Vladimir Preobrazhensky, which said about the need to create a system of natural parks in the USSR. Natural parks were thinking of as places for tourists to relax, but to protect animals and plants in some territories of parks tourists would not be allowed to visit without a guide.