Minsk Botanical Garden

The Botanical garden in Minsk was recognized as truly outstanding in the USSR in the mid-50s under the direction of N.V. Smolski. There were made plant gathering reserves.

A few examinations in the circle of the acclimatization, choice, the ecological insurance and the normal recourses propagation additionally occurred.

In view of the decreased financing in the midst of the post-soviet conditions, the Botanical garden began to do some little piecework, which extended its fields of activity For example, some exceptional for Belarus berries were produced cowberries, ginseng. There seemed extra business – the generation of wine, home grown tea, syrups, stick et cetera.

At present the famous botanical garden in Minsk is one of the largest botanical gardens in Europe both by the composition of the collection as well as by area.