The Botanical Garden in Saint Petersburg is a research institute and horticulture garden. This is one of the oldest existing gardens in Russia. The official name of the research center is Botanical Garden of the V.L. Komarov Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The location of the garden is in the Petrograd region of Saint Petersburg, Russia. The Garden was rechristened to Saint Petersburg Botanical garden in the year 1823 and was included in the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1931.
The Collection in Botanical Garden, Saint Petersburg
Peter the Great, after whom the city has been named had ordered for the development of the Botanical garden. The aim was to create a Chemists horticulture reserve. In course of time, it gained the most important status among institutes of its kind in all of Russia and Europe. In the initial days, the Botanical garden grew plants of medicinal value only but later on rare collections of plants and cactii too were maintained.
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The saplings of the plants were collected from all over the world. Green houses are maintained to grow plants from the temperate zone of Russia. The botanical collection includes ferns, orchids, conifers, palms and a large variety of land and water plants.
During the world war, the Botanical Garden in Saint Petersburg was badly damaged by bomb raids. Much of the collection had been completely ruined but post war the Botanical garden has been renovated. A lot of research work is executed in the V.L. Komarov Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Visiting the Saint Petersburg Botanical Gardens
The Botanical Garden, Saint Petersburg is located in 2, Ulitsa Professora Popova and remains open for public viewing from eleven in the morning till four in the evening. On Fridays, the institute and garden remains closed for the whole day. The nearest metro station from the Botanical Gardens is Petrogradskaya metro station.
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