Batumi Botanical Garden
Batumi Botanical Garden
ბათუმის ბოტანიკური ბაღი | |
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Coordinates: 41°38′45″N 41°38′30″E / 41.64583°N 41.64167°E | |
Country | Georgia |
Website | Official website |
The Batumi Botanical Garden (
History
The Batumi Botanical Garden was started by the Russian botanist Andrey Nikolayevich Krasnov (1862-1914), brother of General Pyotr Krasnov, in the 1880s and officially opened on November 3, 1912. He was aided by two skilled gardeners and decorators – the French D’Alphonse and the Georgian Yason Gordeziani. Krasnov died in 1914 and was interred at the garden which still houses his grave and statue.[2]
Under the Soviet Union, the garden was further expanded and developed, since 1925, into a principal institution for the study of Caucasian maritime subtropical cultures.
Currently, the garden consists of nine floristic sectors, those of Caucasian
The Batumi Botanical Garden had formerly been operated by the
See also
References
- ^ (in Russian) Батумский ботанический сад. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd edition (1969–1978). Accessed on September 23, 2007.
- ^ (in Georgian) Official website of Batumi. Accessed on September 23, 2007.
- ^ Invest in Adjara. Government of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara. Batumi, 2007. Accessed on September 23, 2007.
External links
- Media related to Botanical Garden, Batumi at Wikimedia Commons
41°41′33.78″N 41°43′11.22″E / 41.6927167°N 41.7197833°E