Botanical Garden of

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— the northernmost

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with an exhibition of steppe plants, only one of its kind in the

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. Located in Zavolzhsky Tver region, near the confluence of the Volga Tvertsa. It is valued as a site of historical, cultural and natural heritage besides being an archaeological monument. The garden includes about 350 species of trees and shrubs. An impressive total of 2,000 herbs grow here. One of the major attractions in the gardens is a pond dating back to the 18th century.

Garden History

Originally the garden belonged to Otroch monastery. It was located in Zavolzhsky Posad

Tver Tver ( rus, Тверь, p=tvʲerʲ) is a city and the administrative centre of Tver Oblast, Russia. It is northwest of Moscow. Population: Tver was formerly the capital of a powerful medieval state and a model provincial town in the Russian ...

. In 1879, the merchant guild I I. Bobrov was founded private garden. Trees (

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larch Larches are deciduous conifers in the genus ''Larix'', of the family Pinaceae (subfamily Laricoideae). Growing from tall, they are native to much of the cooler temperate northern hemisphere, on lowlands in the north and high on mountains furt ...

), put in the time, preserved to this day. Otroch monastery

In 1898, the owner of the garden was the teacher of a secondary school science

and female school Maksimovic Leonid A. Kolakowski. At the garden (1.5 ha), he gathered an extensive collection of trees and

shrub A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ...

s, formed by the exposure of plant geography. The garden Kolakowski often conducts workshops with students of the school Maksimychka. Bequest Kolakowski (1930) garden was handed City Department of Education. Before 1938, was used as a child care Children's park, recreation and games. In 1938, the executive committee of the city council passed it Pedagogical Institute for Botanical Gardens. Organization engaged in botanical institutions Tver known botanist A.A. Lebedev and M.L. Nevsky. By 1941, laid the basic collections, landscaped area, made new planting. During the occupation, Kalinin garden suffered. His recovery began only in 1949 in accordance with the scheduled program M.L. Nevsky. Was landscaped area, laid new expositions, to complete your collection of plants, built a greenhouse and a building for employees. The program includes: * Training and experimental work with the students of botany; * Popularization of botanical knowledge * Experiments on the introduction and acclimatization of individual species. In 1973, the territory was transferred to the city garden 'Trust of green building. " Gradually became neglected garden square. Many unique plants were spared from death by V.V. Veselov, who volunteered to take care of a garden. Since 1989, the Botanical Garden is a division of the

. In 1997, the Botanical Garden of Tver State University became a member of Botanic Gardens Conservation ( BGCI). From August 2, 1996 the garden was opened to the public. In 2009, the garden turned 130. On 1 September 2009 the garden has a new status - "Research and Education Center" Botanical Garden "".

The structure of the garden

In the Garden identified the following sectors: * natural

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dendrology Dendrology ( grc, δένδρον, ''dendron'', "tree"; and grc, -λογία, ''-logia'', ''science of'' or ''study of'') or xylology ( grc, ξύλον, ''ksulon'', "wood") is the science and study of woody plants (trees, shrubs, and lianas), ...

* ornamental

horticulture Horticulture is the branch of agriculture that deals with the art, science, technology, and business of plant cultivation. It includes the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs, sprouts, mushrooms, algae, flowers, seaweeds and no ...

herbarium A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (called ...

The following departments: * Department of Plant

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and

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The Division is divided into sub-sections: Small-leaved

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, broadleaf forests,

, the site of the South European

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* Department of

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and Altai * Division plants in the

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and

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* Division plants in

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* Mined area

Exposure garden

* Plants in the

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Placed on the territory of some 350 species. The most widely represented the family

Araceae The Araceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix. The spadix is usually accompanied by, and sometimes partially enclosed in, a spathe (or leaf-like bract). Also ...

(about 50 species),

Orchidaceae Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering ...

(about 20 species),

Polypodiaceae Polypodiaceae is a family of ferns. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), the family includes around 65 genera and an estimated 1,650 species and is placed in the order Polypodiales, suborder Polypodiineae. A broader ...

(about 30 species),

Arecaceae The Arecaceae is a family of perennial flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales. Their growth form can be climbers, shrubs, tree-like and stemless plants, all commonly known as palms. Those having a tree-like form are called palm trees ...

(15 species),

Bromeliaceae The Bromeliaceae (the bromeliads) are a family of monocot Monocotyledons (), commonly referred to as monocots, (Lilianae ''sensu'' Chase & Reveal) are grass and grass-like flowering plants (angiosperms), the seeds of which typically contain o ...

(10 species),

Agavaceae Agavoideae is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, order Asparagales. It has previously been treated as a separate family, Agavaceae. The group includes many well-known desert and dry-zone types, such as the agav ...

(10 species),

Gesneriaceae Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almost all Didymocarpoideae) and the New World (most Gesnerioideae), with ...

(10 species),

Liliaceae The lily family, Liliaceae, consists of about 15 genera and 610 species of flowering plants within the order Liliales. They are monocotyledonous, perennial, herbaceous, often bulbous geophytes. Plants in this family have evolved with a fair ...

(10 species). * Plants European steppes At the station placed 135 species. Most of the species collected in the collection of natural habitats. Represented by steppe species, for which the Tver region is the northern boundary of the range. Some of the plants are from isolated populations located far enough away from the northern border of the range. * Systematic plot Collected more than 260 species of plants from 42 seymeystv located in Engler. Plants exposure are morphological and taxonomic diversity within the family. Collection is used for the educational process and educational outreach. *

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* Plot of useful plants The foundations for exposures: * Starytska gate * Vyshnevolotskko-Novotorzhsky shaft ( Valdai) * Mineratrofnoe swamp *

Valdai Hills The Valdai Hills (russian: Валда́йская возвы́шенность, Valdáyskaya vozvýshennost'), sometimes referred to as just Valdai (russian: Валда́й, Valdáy), are an upland region in the north-west of central European Ru ...

References

Official site of the Botanical Garden of Tver State University

Essays on the activity of botanical gardens
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Green areas of Tver

130th anniversary of the Botanical Garden of the TSU

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Botanical gardens in Russia Cultural heritage monuments in Tver Oblast