🌳 Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden, main entrance at Vladykino

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The entrance to one of Europe's largest botanical gardens — more than 300 hectares with an arboretum, a greenhouse and ponds.

The garden was founded on 14 April 1945 for the 220th anniversary of the Academy of Sciences; its first director was the breeder Nikolay Tsitsin.
The garden's living collections include more than 16,000 species, forms and varieties of plants.
The arboretum covers 75 hectares: plants of one genus are planted in it as a single stand.
The Japanese Garden was created by the master Ken Nakajima; negotiations about it began in 1978, and in May the cherry blossoms here for about a week.
The core of the tropical plant collection of the Collection Greenhouse was brought in 1947 from the Sanssouci greenhouse in Potsdam.
The garden preserves fragments of the Ostankino oak grove and Leonovo forest, mentioned in chronicles as early as 1584.
In 2014 the garden was merged with VDNKh and Ostankino Park, and the dividing fence was removed.