Central Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

The Central Botanical Garden, owned by the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, is one of the oldest in the country. It was established by the decision of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Belarusian SSR in 1932.

The Botanical Garden is recognized as the largest center in Belarus dedicated to the conservation of plant biodiversity. Specializations of this advanced scientific institution are physiology, introduction, biochemistry, ecology, plant acclimatization, environmental protection.

The area of the garden is 153 hectares, the collection is more than 9 thousand copies, of which 2.3 thousand are covered ground – according to these indicators, the botanical garden is considered one of the largest in Europe.

According to the decision of the administration of Pervomaysky district of Minsk since 2006, the Central Botanical Garden is a smoke-free territory.

In 2007, an exhibition greenhouse was opened here, which began to be built in 2004. The greenhouse has a collection of over 500 species of exotic plants from all climatic zones of the world.

The objects of the institution are natural monuments of the republic and monuments of landscape architecture of the second half of the 20th century. In 1999, by the decision of the Government of Belarus, the collections of the Central Botanical Garden were recognized as a national treasure.