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Botanic Garden of Petrozavodsk State University
Russian Federation - Karelia - Petrozavodsk
Institution Code: PZV
BGCI Member: No
The famous place of Botanic Garden called «Devil’s Chair» is the shore outcrops and rock terraces with the abruption of volcanic formations of Suysar volcanic complex aged
approximately 1900 million.
Main Address:
Botanic Garden of Petrozavodsk State University
Lenina av., 33
Petrozavodsk
Karelia 185910 Russian Federation
Telephone: (8142) 765482
Fax: (8142) 789448
URL: hortus.karelia.ru
Primary Email: alpro@onego.ru
Staff Details
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Director's Name: Dr Alexei A. Prokhorov
Curator's Name: Alexei Falin
Plant Records Officer's Name: Elena Platonova, Ph.D.
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Total Staff:
Horticultural Staff Number: 5
Educational Staff Number:
Research Staff Number: 10
Administration Staff Number: 3
About the Garden
- Institution Type: Botanic Garden
- Date founded: 1951
- Physical Data
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Latitude: 61.7822
Longitude: 34.3620
Altitude: 0.00 Metres
Features and Facilities
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Herbarium: Yes
Arboretum: Yes
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Micropropagation/ Tissue Culture Facilities: No
Seed Bank: No
Published Plant Catalogue: Yes
Computer Plant Record System: Yes
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Open to public: Yes
Friends society: No
Retail Outlet: Shop: No
Retail Outlet: Plant Sales: Yes
Plant Collections
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Cultivation Taxa Num: 1200
- Special Collections:Arboretum is the oldest picturesque part of
Botanic Garden with more than half a century
history. Its beauty is accentuated by natural
landscape in combination with the elements of
regular and scenery styles. The collection consists
of 218 species, 109 cultivars and 5 forms.
The leading families are Rosaceae (63 species),
Pinaceae (28 species) and Salicaceae (27 species).
By their origin the woody plants are accommodated
in European, North-American and
Asian sectors.
Collection of Perennial Plants includes a wide assortment of
decorative, herbal, nectariferous, aromatic and
vitaminous plants which adapted to northern
conditions. The test of new taxons of agriculturally-
useful plants are held in this Department,
specialized collections of highly-decorative
species and cultivars are created here, practical
work of students of Biology and Medical
Faculties of Petrozavodsk State University is
conducted here, and assortment of perspective
decorative plants for Karelian town planting is
chosen here, too.
At present, the Department contains 325
species and cultivars. The majority of them are
perennial plants-introducents, which are characterized
by diversity in taxonomic, ecologicalbiological
composition, geographical origin and
agriculturally-useful qualities. The largest number
of taxons have such families as Iridaceae (9 species,
38 cultivars), Ranunculaceae (26 species),
Lamiaceae (16 species), Saxifragaceae (14 species,
22 cultivars).
The exposition «Sunny Garden» presents the
main part of collection of perennial plants for
high light conditions. These are the representatives
of genus Iris L., Paeonia L., Dianthus L. and
many others.
The exposition «Shady Garden» includes a
complex of ornamental perennial species and
cultivars which grow better in the conditions of
scattered light. Among them of particular interest
are collections of Funkia Endl., Astilbe Buch.-
Ham. ex D. Don and Hemerocallis L. Considerable
attention is paid to the choice of actual for
northern gardens groundcover and wintergreen
plants.
The exposition «Medicinal Plants» includes
the species of natural flora. The plants are placed
in accordance with the display of medicinal
qualities of treatment and prophylaxis of the
main groups of diseases.
Collection of Fruit and Berry Plants represents 155
cultivars of 22 species of fruit- and berry plants.
The collections of raspberry-bush, black currant,
apple tree and gooseberry-bush possess the
largest number of cultivars: 34, 25, 30 and 16 accordingly.
Some new for Karelia species such as
honeysuckle, cherry-plum, plum, pear, blackberry
bush, actinidia and others have passed introduction
lately.
The collection «Apple Orchard» is presented
on the territory of one hectare and numbers approximately
100 specimens of apple-tree (Malus
domestica Borkh.). It also includes perspective
cultivars of this species (‘Anis seryi’, ‘Borovinka’,
‘Grushovka Moskovskaya’, ‘Kalvil belyi letnii’,
‘Papirovka’, ‘Wealthy’, ‘Uralskoe nalivnoe’,
‘Baltika’, ‘Melba’, ‘Langworthy’, ‘Pamyat Voinu’,
‘Borovinka’ x ‘Babushkino’, ‘Borovinka’ x ‘Borsdorfskoe’,
and others).
Highly-decorative is pear-leaf apple (Pyrus prunifolia
‘Hyvingiensis’) with its umbrel-like crown.
The collection of raspberry-bush (Rubus idaeus
L.) is noted for the variety of taxons on morphological,
taste characteristics, crop capacity, precocity
and length of ripening. New macrocarpous
cultivars of raspberry-bush are ‘Zgeltiy Gigant’,
‘Skromnica’, and ‘Meteor’.
Liana is a group of fruit- and berry plants
which is not widely spread in the North. Perspective
are kolomikta actinidia (Actinidia kolomikta
Maxim.) and magnolia-vine (Schisandra chinensis
K. Koch.) which have nutritional value and at the
same time are herbs and highly-decorative plants.
Of special interest are southern cultures like
blackberry bush of ‘Aqavam’ sort and blackberry–
raspberry bush hybrid of ‘Tayberri’ sort which had
berries in this conditions.
The growing of new nontraditional horticultural
crops singled out among local wild-flora is one of
the modern directions of Russian gardening. In cooperation
with the Gardening Council of Finland «Puutarholito», Botanic Garden conducts a research of Rubus arcticus L., an exotic horticultural crop.
Conservation Programmes
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Conservation Programme: Yes
Medicinal Plant Programme: Yes
Ex Situ Conservation Programme: Yes
Reintroduction Programme: No
Research Programmes
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Biotechnology: No
Plant Breeding: No
Conservation - Biology: Yes
Conservation - Genetics: No
Data Management Systems and Information Technology: Yes
Ecology: Yes
Ecosystem Conservation: Yes
Education: Yes
Ethnobotany: Yes
Exploration: No
Floristics: No
Invasive Species Biology and Control: No
Molecular Genetics: No
Pollination Biology: No
Restoration Ecology: No
Seed/Spore Biology: No
Sustainability: No
Pharmacology: Yes
Agriculture: Yes
Land Restoration: No
Urban Environments: Yes
Education Programmes
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Visitor/Education Centre: No
Education Signs in Garden: Yes
Public Lectures/Talks: Yes
Education Booklets/Leaflets: No
Guided Tours: Yes
Permanent Public Displays: Yes
Special Exhibitions: No
Courses for School Children: No
Courses for University/College Students: Yes
Courses for General Public: No
Education Programme: No