Amur City Arboretum

About museum

In June 2012 the Amur City Arboretum was established on the grounds of the Botanical Garden, and Gennady Alekseevich Kuzminykh was appointed its director. The arboretum's primary goal is to preserve and increase the vegetation of the Sakhalyan Reserve and the yew grove, as well as to create plots with rare and medicinal plants of the Far East and plants for outdoor cultivation. The arboretum can be especially proud of its collection of Far Eastern plants listed in the Red Book (Japanese yew — Taxus cuspidata; Microbiota; Sargent's juniper; Weigela praecox; Rhododendron schlippenbachii). The arboretum was created to protect precious and legally protected plants of the Far East, to conduct scientific research, to foster aesthetic appreciation and environmental education among the public, to carry out acclimatization and introduction of plants, to implement new landscape-architecture techniques, and to grow planting stock for greening.