belarus, professor, honored worker of science of the republic of belarus, head of the department for plant chemistry and biotechnology of the central botanical garden. how do botanic gardens differ when performance is assessed? the first is, of course, what kind of biodiversity is preserved in the collection, i want to say that the first such garden in the world is, uh, the royal garden of great britain to the yugans in their collections. this is a record of about 34.000 plant species 15.000. this is a lot. we are included in the top ten gardens, therefore the indicator for the european and even north american region. the formation of the botanical garden took place in the pre-war period in 1932 , when scientists in st. petersburg, belarus and moscow made the main global strategic planning of the central botanical garden, which was that from the central partner - this is the center of the botanical garden. e, in a radial direction, there were alleys that divided the territory of the botanical garden into natural plant complexes. this is a natural plant complex of europe, asia, america, the far east