Tsytsin Main Botanical Garden of Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)

Russia / Moscow / Moscow / Botanicheskaya ulitsa
 pedestrian area, botanical garden, object of cultural heritage of regional importance (Russia), ecological park
Главный ботанический сад имени Н. В. Цицина РАН
Tsytsin Main Moscow Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences, founded in April 1945, is the largest in Europe. It covers territory of 3.61 km² bordering the All-Russian Exhibition Center and contains a live exhibition of more than 20 thousand of different species of plants from different parts of the world as well as scientific research laboratory. It also contains a rosarium with 20 thousand rose bushes, dendrarium and an oak forest with average age of trees exceeding 100 years as well as a greenhouse on more than 5000 square meters.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Botanical_Garden_of_Academy_of_Sciences
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Coordinates:   55°50'18"N   37°36'22"E