nikolai vavilov has collected a bank of genetic resources of cultivated plants of the planet, crossingeeds from it, and now it is possible to return any disappeared plant. some scholars say that the vavilov collection is the most expensive property in russia in general there are now 1750 such banks in the world, but all of them are small, weakly protected, and therefore vulnerable, for example, in 2001, during the fighting in afghanistan , a seed bank was destroyed, where ancient varieties of walnuts were stored. whom almonds and peach nuts in 2003 during the us invasion in iraq destroyed a bank with rare varieties of wheat, and in the philippines such an object was flooded during a typhoon and the locals considered it. it 's almost a curse that seed supplies are so important to survival. yes, but it is not carved in the rock - the flagship collection of the belarusian gene pool bank plants and crops keeps behind its walls. our academy of sciences. it has a scientific and practical center for agriculture, and its headquarters is located in zhodino. there is a room with sophisticated eq