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Botanical Garden
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Botanical Garden
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Botanical Garden
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Botanical Garden
Botanical Garden
Botanical Garden
Botanical Garden
Botanical Garden
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Koltsova St., 93, Irkutsk 664074, Russia

The Botanic Garden of the Irkutsk State University is a botanic garden in Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia. It is the only botanic garden in Baikalian Siberia and is known as the Irkutsk Botanic Garden. Its mission is to protect and enrich the flora of the Lake Baikal area and the world for people through public education, collection, propagation, research, and conservation of plants. The garden is principally an educational and scientific tool for the university and maintains the largest living plant collection in the region , an herbarium and a seedbank. It occupies 27 hectares within Irkutsk city, 70 kilometres west of Lake Baikal. It has the status of being federal strictly protected land and a nature memorial of Irkutsk. Irkutsk Botanic Garden is now used as a cross-disciplinary educational and research facility by different departments and faculties of Irkutsk State University and other universities of the Lake Baikal region, in a broad range of disciplines including botany, zoology, ecology, agronomy, soil science, geography, landscape architecture, management, economics, mathematics, informatics, service and marketing, psychology, social sciences and sociology, and tourism. On the basis of environmental resources of the university Botanic Garden and Kaya Grove, the Irkutsk Mayor office along with the Irkutsk State University are going to establish a public Irkutsk Botanic Garden as ecological techno-park and tourism and recreation center on the territory of 100 hectares. It is a member of the BGCI and the EABGN .
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