Krivoy Rog Botanical Garden
At the heart of Ukraine in Krivoy Rog is unusual garden trees, flowers and shrubs. This Krivorozhsky botanical garden, an area of over 52 hectares. It maintains a unique collection of endangered plants and herbarium specimens. Now Krivorozhsky botanical garden - the object of nature reserve fund of Ukraine national importance, and its arboretum recognized national property of Ukraine.
Initiator laying botanical garden in Kryvorizhzhya became Professor Eugene Kondratiuk. Grand opening of the Botanical Garden in Krivoy Rog as a branch of the Donetsk Botanical Garden was in 1989. And in 1992 it formed the basis of an independent Kryvoriz'ka institution of the National Academy of Sciences.
Despite his relatively young age, Rig Botanical Garden preserves an extraordinary collection of rare plants, including 200 species of medicinal and nearly a thousand of flowers and decorative designs. Here, more than 600 species of trees and shrub species, among which we can find 120 different varieties. In the end, only you can see over 60 species listed in the Red Book of Ukraine, and about 40 samples, which are guarded World and European Red List.
In Krivoy Rog Botanical Garden can be seen as the usual eye for Ukrainian poppies, lilacs and tulips and white kale, sunny yellow sleep-grass, dwarf iris, spring adonis adonis and gold. The most striking garden in springtime, when the bloom more than 50 species of lilacs. If you arrive in Krivoy Rog winter, you must be invited to tour the greenhouses and greenhouses that throughout the year please the eye with a variety of colors and shapes of flowers and shrubs.
Special attention is given scientific activities that are carried out. In Krivoy Rog botanical garden floral study findings documenting new scientific findings and to preserve the unique and do not fully studied herbarium specimens. In addition, conduct genetic improvement of breeding rare ornamental crops. In an industrial region such research is new, which opens up broad prospects for researchers. Finally, workers Botanical Garden Krivoy Rog actively cooperate with Ukrainian research institutions, and foreign. These include the Institute of Botany of forest woody plants and physiological University of Freiburg in Germany, Technical University of Texas and the University of Chicago in the United States.
Located in Krivoy Rog Botanical Garden Ternovskaya near Krivoy Rog outside Marshak, 50. To get here, just get there by bus first to the "ring 44 of the first quarter," and then transfer to trucks bound for the 7th hospital.
