Amur City Arboretum

About museum

In June 2012 the Amur City Arboretum was established on the grounds of the Botanical Garden, and Gennady Alekseyevich Kuzminykh was appointed its director. The arboretum's primary goal is the preservation and expansion of the vegetation of the Sakhalyan Reserve and the yew grove, as well as the creation of plots with rare and medicinal plants of the Russian Far East and with plants for open-ground cultivation. The arboretum can be especially proud of its collection of Far Eastern plants included in the Red Book (Japanese yew, Microbiota, Sargent's juniper, Weigela amabilis, Schlippenbach's rhododendron). The arboretum was established to protect the precious and protected plants of the Russian Far East, to conduct scientific research, to provide aesthetic education and environmental awareness for the public, to carry out plant acclimatization and introduction work, to implement new landscape architecture techniques, and to grow planting material for greening.