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Main Botanical Garden, Russian Academy of Sciences

Main Address:
Main Botanical Garden, Russian Academy of Sciences
Botanicheskaya ul, 4, 127276 MOSCOW
Russian Federation
Moscow
Russian Federation
Telephone Number: (095) 9779044, 9779145
Fax Number: (095) 9779172
Web Site: www.gbsad.ru
Institution Email Address: info@gbsad.ru; lander@aha.ru

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• Staff Details
  • Director: Dr. A.S. Demidov
    Curator:
    Plant Records Officer:
    
• About this Garden
  • Institution Type:
  • Status
  • State: Yes
    
  • Date Founded: 1945
  • Physical Data
  • Natural Vegetation Area (inside BG): Yes
    Size of Area: 340 hectares
    
  • Landscaped Area: Yes
    
  • Latitude: 55.7557
    Longitude: 37.6176
    
• Features and Facilities
  • Herbarium: Yes
    Arboretum: Yes
    
  • Micropropagation/Tissue Culture Facilities: Yes
    Seed Bank: Yes
    Published Plant Catalogue: Yes
    Computer Plant Record System: Yes
    
  • Open to the Public: Yes
    Society of Friends: Yes
    Retail Outlet (plant sales): Yes
    
• Plant Collections
  • Special Collections:Native flora of the former USSR, trees and shrubs, ornamental perennials (roses, lilacs, daffodils, tulips, iris, gladioli, peonies etc), tropical and subtropical plants, cacti and succulents. An extensive collection of economic plant resources, including over 300 fruit, berry and nut cultivars, including the following: strawberry (20 species - Fragaria- 325 cultivars and hybrids), plum (c.20 cultivars), gooseberry (60 cultivars), black currant (126 cultivars), red and white currant (32 cultivars), raspberry (54 cultivars), Pyrus (40 cultivars), Malus (161 cultivars), Vaccinum corymbosum (26 cultivars), Lonicera edulis (several cultivars), Corylus (5 cultivars), Schizandra chinensis (a number of threatened varieties), Actinidia kolmikta (several varieties and selections), Hippophae rhamnoides (+20 cultivars), Cerasus tomentosa (37 cultivar), Sorbus (many species and varieties), Rosa (many species and varieties). The economic plant collection includes 2,874 accessions of 887 species and forms and 1987 varieties. 2,288 native plant species are cultivated. About 5,000 taxa are maintained under glass. In the arboretum 1,599 species and 453 cultivars are cultivated. The (outdoor) ornament plant collection includes 928 species and 5,230 cultivars.
• Conservation Programmes
  • Medicinal Plant Programme: Yes
    
• Research Programmes
  • Biotechnology: Yes
    Data Management Systems and Information Technology: Yes
    Ecology: Yes
    Education: Yes
    Ethnobotany: Yes
    Floristics: Yes
    Horticulture: Yes
    Seed/Spore Biology: Yes
    Systematics and Taxonomy: Yes
    Urban Environments: Yes
    
• Education Programmes
  • Visitor/Education Centre: Yes