The Botanical Garden of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow is the largest in Europe, with the richest collection of plants of open and closed ground with over 17 thousand species and varieties. It was founded in 1945. Today its territory totals more than 330 hectares of land.

The main task of the Botanical Garden is the preservation of biological diversity. The Garden Arboretum is almost 2000 species of trees and bushes from around the world, in the expositions "Rosary", "Garden of Continuous Flowering", "Garden of Coastal Plants" and "Shadow Garden", a chic collection of floral and ornamental plants is collected, in the greenhouse the number of species and forms tropical and subtropical plants has exceeded 6 000.

It is, in fact, more like a park than a botanical garden . Nearly there are almost no name plates near the plants, and visitors, in spite of located on the territory of the warning, still sit on the grass, sunbathe and ride on bicycles or rollers . So the botanical garden at first glance rather resembles a wonderful place for outdoor recreation - except in a few more exotic conditions . If you are more inte esuyut signed and systematized rare plants would be wiser to go after them in the Pharmaceutical Garden on Prospekt Mira .

Cognitive excursions are conducted around the garden, but you can wander here and yourself - by studying name tags plants, wandering into the dense forest, feeding the squirrels, resting near small ponds and breathing atypical for the outskirts of Moscow, oxygenated air. The only thing you should not forget when visiting the garden is that it is not an ordinary city park, and careful attitude to the unique flora is especially important here

Interesting Facts

There is one rather important point that many visitors miss. You can get to the garden from the VDNKh and from the metro Vladykino, but if you do not care about finding a detailed map before visiting, you may need quite a lot of time to find the entrance. It is surprisingly well hidden and, as a rule, none of the passers-by knows exactly where it is located.

With the exit about the same trouble. There are almost no signs inside, and the territory of the botanical garden is so large that you can easily get lost there. It is better to get acquainted with the map of the garden in advance, so that you can certainly get out on time.

However, overcoming all these difficulties is worth it, because inside the botanical garden is simply charming. Walking along it you will be able to visit both a neat forest park, a wild forest, and a cozy garden with fruit trees. In addition, completely hand-held squirrels live in the botanical garden, and if you have the patience, you may even be able to feed the forest birds from the hands.

Information

Address and phone: st. Botanical, 4; information (499) 977 91 45, booking excursions 8-906-775-75-44

How to get there: m. "Vladykino", "VDNH" avt. No. 24, 85 and 803 or TB No. 9, 36 and 73

Working hours: May to mid October. from 10.00 to 20.00. In April and October, planting works are carried out in the garden. Mon. and quat. - weekend. In the winter, the garden is closed.

The operating mode of the greenhouse: from 10.00 to 16.00. Weekends - Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Visiting the greenhouse is possible only as part of the excursion

Working hours of the exposition "Japanese Garden": Sat, Sun and holidays from 29 April. on the 31st of August. from 12.00 to 20.00; from 1 Sept. on the 19th of October. from 12.00 to 19.00; Tue, Wed, Fri from 12.00 to 18.00

Entrance to the garden: 50 rubles., Bicycles 100 rubles., Students and students 30 rubles., Preschoolers and pensioners - free of charge, season ticket (for the period 01.05-01.10) - 300 rubles; Japanese garden: everyday / sun, holidays 100/150 rubles., Schoolchildren and students 50/80 rubles., Pensioners 10/20 rub.

The cost of excursions: 250 rubles. from a person, schoolchildren, students, pensioners, discounts

The Botanical Garden of Moscow

Japanese Garden, Moscow Botanical Garden

Reviews of the Botanical Garden in Moscow (3)

Evaluation 1

Bicycle garden July 14, 2014

Garden visitor

was here in July 2014

Were with her friend on July 13, 1944 in the botanical garden. now it's a place for bikers, rollers. It's impossible to walk and rest calmly: you have to jerk all the time, bounce off to the side afraid of being knocked down.

Evaluation 1

Association of the Botanical Garden and VDNH. April 27, 2014

Vadim.

was here in April 2014

For decades, the Botanical garden was slowly dying (the trees were drying and rotting, the buildings were collapsing) from federal underfinancing. Finally, he will be killed by a merger with VDNH. The botanical garden will be turned into a PARK, combed with it, rid of all "superfluous", will make free round-the-clock uncontrolled access, ponastavit lanterns, will start mowing lawns and rare species will die, the last living creatures will die out, birds will fly away.
After all, it is known even the youngster, that the botanical gardens work regime and visiting rules are different from the park!

Evaluation 10

A wonderful place for a quiet and relaxing holiday. April 17, 2014

Vlad128

was here in May 2013

It is clear that the Main Botanical Garden named after Nikolai Vasilievich Tsitsin, belonging to the biological department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is good in its own way at any time of the year, but it should be borne in mind that in winter it is closed. He especially likes me in late spring, when, filled with young greenery of trees and grasses, he smells like a variety of flowering plants.
I may be objected that there is a site of continuous flowering, where this phenomenon continues throughout the summer. But, first, the indicated territory ... Read the entire review