This paper presents the first comprehensive survey of the ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from the Váté písky National Natural Monument, including the banks of the Morava River (the Osypané břehy Natural Monument), the adjacent floodplain forest, the surrounding pine forests on the sands and the sand quarry area of Bzenec-Přívoz. The whole area is part of the Strážnické Pomoraví Nature Park. 242 species of ground beetles were documented in the studied area, which represents about 40 % of all species known from all over the Czech Republic. Of this amount, 37 species figure in the Red List of threatened species of invertebrates of the Czech Republic (Hejda et al. 2017). For the species Cymindis macularis (Fischer von Waldheim, 1824), the monitored area is currently the only known locality where this beetle occurs throughout the Czech Republic. The Bzenec-Přívoz sand quarry is the only locality of the species Dyschiriodes benedikti (Bulirsch, 1995) in the Czech Republic with the last record in 2000 and Miscodera arctica (Paykull, 1798) has so far been proven in Moravia only in pine forests near the villages of Bzenec-Přívoz and Vacenovice. The studied habitats in the surroundings of the village of Bzenec-Přívoz are zoologically and botanically very valuable areas, which would undoubtedly deserve a higher degree of protection than the currently classification (Natural Monument, respectively National Natural Monument).Zkratky a použité pojmy at light -na světlo, pitfall trap -zemní past, coll. -sbírka, det. -určil, lgt. -sbíral, revid.revidoval, spec. -jedinec/jedinci, CR -kriticky ohrožený (critically endangered), EN -ohrožený (endangered), NT -téměř ohrožený (near threatened), VU -zranitelný (vulnerable), R -reliktní druh (relict), A -adaptabilní druh (adaptable), E -eurytopní druh (eurytop), ZCHD/O -zvláště chráněný druh zařazený do kategorie ohrožený, PP -přírodní památka, NPP -národní přírodní památka, NPR -národní přírodní rezervace,