The Cherkasy forest is also a source of medicinal raw materials, serves as a base for the development of beekeeping, and is of great landscape, architectural, and aesthetic importance.
They cover the sandy terraces of the right bank of the Dnipro River, preventing the movement and blowing of sands, soil washout and erosion.
The forests of the coastal strip regulate the surface runoff of atmospheric water and protect the banks of the Kremenchuk reservoir on the Dnipro from erosion.
The forest improves the microclimate of the surrounding areas, helps to preserve small rivers and increase crop yields.
The Cherkasy Forest includes 23 objects of the nature reserve fund with a total area of 2,169 hectares (including the Rusko-Polyansky Botanical Reserve — of national importance) — 6 reserves (Dakhnivka, Moshnohirsky, Rusko-Polyansky wetland), 14 natural monuments (Moshenska oak forest, a highly productive pine plantation in Dakhnivka, a forest plantation of centuries-old oaks in Svydivka, a forest plantation of alder and oak in Svydivka, an Amur velvet plantation near the village of Moshny, a Witch's Broom pine in Dubiivka, a six-trunk oak tree on the territory of a game farm, an underground spring in Moshny, a landscape plantation of centuries-old pine "Sosnivka" in Cherkasy) and 3 parks-monuments of landscape art.