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economic (food, rubber, textile plants, etc.), morphologic-ecologic 
(for schools). Arboretum and Fruticetum being established 
(1938). Publication: Seed List. Special department for botani- 
cal education for school children; collections and living material 
for study supplied to local schools. Affiliation: Board of Instruc- 
tion ot the Kooibucsheff Re egio 
KUJASHIZA (BELORUSSIA) 
BoTANIC GARDEN (BOTANITSCHESKIJ SAD) 
LENINGRAD (1) 
INSTITUTE AND BOTANIC GARDEN OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
OnGEHE Wise on he 
(BoTANICESKI INSTITUT I SAD VsEsoyuUSNoI AKADEMII 
AUK 
Pessochnaya 2, Leningrad, 22 
Established: 1st, about 1713 by Peter the Great as a Druggist’s 
Garden. 2nd, 1824, reorganized as the Imperial Botanic Gar- 
den. 3rd, 1917, again reorganized as the Main Botanic Garden 
of the U. S.S. R. In 1930 the Garden was amalgamated with 
the Botanical Museum of the Academy of Sciences and received 
its present name. Area: 16 hectares. 
Directors: 
Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1843-1850) 
Karl Anton Meyer (1850-1855) 
K. K. Ktister (1855-1857) 
Eduard August von Regel ee 1865) 
Ernst Rudolph von Trautvetter (1865-1875) 
Eduard August von Regel (1875-1892) 
Alexander Batalin (1892-1896) 
Alexander Fischer de (von) Waldheim (1896-1917) 
Boris Lawrentjewitsch Issa¢enko (Issatschenko) (1917- 
1930) 
10. D. V. Vassiliev (1930-1931) 
11. Boris Aleksandrovi¢é Keller (1931-1937) 
12. Boris K. Schischkin (1937— ) 
Serves as a ee park. Open daily, May 1—-October 1, 10 am.— 
dusk. Admission to grounds, 25 kop. C onservatories: Open 
every day in aie year, 11 am—4 p.m. Admission, 75 kop. Vis- 
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