Moscow Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences

The Tsytsin Main Moscow Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences was founded in April 1945, and claims itself to be the largest botanical garden in Europe.^[1] It covers a territory of approximately 3.61 km², bordering the VDNKH Exhibition Center, and contains a live exhibition of more than twenty thousand different species of plants coming from various parts of the world. The garden also has a scientific research laboratory and contains a rosarium with twenty thousand rose bushes, a dendrarium (arboretum), an oak forest with the average age of the trees exceeding 100 years, and a greenhouse of more than 5000 square meters.

Gallery

• Moscow Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences
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  Main botanical garden, main building

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  Garden fence

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  Greenhouse

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  Garden

References

1. (Russian) The Official Site of the Main Moscow Botanical Garden. Retrieved on 2006-07-18.

Additional sources

• Washington, Tom (August 11, 2011). "Tramp camp at the Botanical Gardens". The Moscow News. Retrieved August 6, 2012.
• "Europe’s largest botanical garden hides in Moscow’s concrete jungle". RT TV. 28 July 2011. Retrieved 10 August 2012.

External links

• Photo of the "Japanese garden" (1024x768)
• (Russian) The Official Site of Russia Museums
• (Russian) The Site in the Landscape of Gardening Guidebook

Coordinates: 55°50′20″N 37°36′04″E / 55.839°N 37.601°E