The Botanical Gardens of Novosibirsk is the pride of the famous Siberian city. Given the climatic conditions, the presence of such an institution is, rather, the achievement of science and advanced agricultural technology, than a place to attract tourists.
The history of the botanical garden of the city of Novosibirsk
Founded in early 1946 at the initiative of Academician Komarov, the Botanical Garden (Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk) acquired the title of a research economy in the 50s of the last century. By the end of the 50s, the Siberian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences was established, which was called the Central Siberian Botanical Garden.
If at the beginning of its history the botanical garden (Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk) occupied an area of only 250 hectares in the Zaeltsovsky district, where an arboretum was created and a large number of plants were grown, then since 1964 he moved to the Academy of Sciences of the Novosibirsk Academgorodok.
At the same time, the garden area grew to 1000 hectares, and laboratory and production buildings appeared in it.
Thus, the botanical gardens of Novosibirsk occupy a vast territory, directly related to Akademgorodok. There are greenhouses with various types of plants, greenhouses and storage rooms.
Projects and expositions of the botanical garden of Novosibirsk
The main task that the botanical gardens of Novosibirsk jointly with America, Canada and the countries of Europe solve is the training of worthy personnel for working with rare plant species.
Here you can defend a doctoral dissertation, which guarantees a successful career in the institutes of Siberia. For example, at the botanical garden there is a special council that collaborates with graduate students and doctors specializing in botany and ecology.
The staff and students of the botanical garden of the Novosibirsk Academgorodok have patented more than 70 discoveries and inventions related to the production of new varieties of food, medicinal and even decorative plants.
For example, the Botanical Garden of Novosibirsk (work schedule from 8.30 to 16.30) presents such expositions as “The Garden of Constant Flowering”, which is famous for its perennial plants blooming at different times of the year. This creates the illusion that the garden is constantly in bloom.
The Herbarium branch, with more than 800 thousand plant species, is especially popular with visitors.
Standing apart is unfamiliar, but even more interesting, Japanese culture in the style of "Bonsai Park." Here, visitors can not only admire the plants, but also listen to how the wind sounds in pendant-pendants. Plants are interspersed with balls made of various materials. Rather, this composition was created not for observation and study, but for contemplation.
In Bonsai Park, plants are grown in handmade containers made by local craftsmen manually from ceramics. Also among the author's works are decorations of the botanical garden: various figures of birds and animals made of clay.
Saplings of the botanical garden of Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk Botanical Gardens are not only a favorite place for locals and tourists, but also a research center for the cultivation of new varieties of plants that can be purchased.
Each owner of a personal plot can buy and plant in his garden plants grown in the famous Academgorodok throughout the country.
The Botanical Garden in Novosibirsk, the seedlings of which can be purchased by every amateur gardener, offers not only decorative plants, but medicinal and endangered species. Thus, it contributes to their distribution and conservation.
