ISU Botanical Garden in the city of Irkutsk
d. Irkutsk, Koltsova Street, 93
Description:
The Botanical Garden of Irkutsk State University is spread over 27 hectares. It was established in 1940, and in 1941 the first plant collections were laid. Today it is the only botanical garden in the Baikal region included in the International Register of Botanical Gardens of the World. This is a real museum of wildlife in the open air.
The Botanical Garden is an important educational and scientific tool not only for university students, but also for students of other educational institutions of Irkutsk, is popular among schoolchildren and adults in the city and region. The structure of the botanical garden includes several departments.
The department of educational programs contains more than 600 species of ornamental and tropical plants, about 300 wild Siberian herbaceous species, as well as a herbarium, a seed bank and a library. The arboretum presents about 400 species of trees and shrubs growing in Eastern Siberia and the Far East. A separate block is devoted to biotechnologies - here you can find more than 200 types of fruit crops for agricultural needs.