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 (the Lake Baikal region) 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 largest plant collection of living plants in the region (more than 3000 plant taxa), a herbarium, and a seed bank. It occupies 27 hectares within Irkutsk city, 70 kilometers west of Lake Baikal. It has a status of the federal strictly protected land and a nature memorial of Irkutsk.
At present the Irkutsk Botanic Garden is being used widely as a cross-disciplinary educational and research facility of shared use for different departments and faculties of Irkutsk State University and other universities of the Lake Baikal region in a broad range of disciplines (from botany, zoology, ecology, agronomy, soil science, geography to landscape architecture, management, economics, mathematics, informatics, service and marketing, psychology, social sciences and sociology, tourism, etc.)
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 (Botanic Gardens Conservation International) and the EABGN (East Asian Botanic Gardens Network.
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