Nikitsky Botanical garden

Christian Steven, a Russian academician, founder and the first Director of the Nikitsky Botanical garden. The garden was established in 1812 near the village of Nikita – hence the name.
In the opinion of the founder of the Nikita garden "Taurian state garden will have in mind a threefold purpose:





1) if possible, a complete collection of all without exception in this climate and able to grow in any kind of economy is useful, or only for decoration of the employees of the trees, shrubs and grasses, to the knowledge of all different kinds on the outside the signs and way;





2) extraction of seeds and breeding as the importance of larger or smaller schools such (of plants), which in other Russia to grow can;





3) cultivation of large plantations of such plants, which one a warm climate, tend to receive from these income and encouragement to those inhabitants of Tauris, and other places able to those spaces".



   

In the collections of the Nikita Botanical garden has 30 thousand species, varieties and hybrids of plants. Amazing, beautiful, rich and interesting for its green decoration alleys every year travels more than 700 thousand tourists and tourists from all corners of the earth. Nikitsky garden carries a wide scientific contacts with 550 different institutions from 80 countries.

Nikita is an urban-type settlement, which is located on the eve of Yalta. There is a major research center of the Crimean Peninsula. 1984 was the year when the village appeared in the Research complex, designed to deal with the problems of geological environment protection of the Crimea.





Here, even in summer, on the hottest day, you can feel the breath of cold. The answer is somewhat simpler than it might seem at first glance. The fact is that due to the natural characteristics of these rocks became a kind of battery, and a moisture condenser. Nikitskaja the cleft has three outputs. They are all cluttered majestic cliffs pyramidal shape. Here, in the beautiful romance of the rocks is the inspiration for filmmakers and artists, and climbers push their limits on steep walls of the gorge.





Its creation was timed to coincide with the XXVII International geological Congress, because in the Crimea was held by his scientific excursions. Home for the center was a beautiful building that attracts with its originality.



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