geneticist nikolai vavilov and today contains more than two hundred, samples, agricultural crops, on the basis of which hundreds of thousands of new varieties are bred from watermelons to nuts sergey pin saw the golden reserve with his own eyes. only when you are here do you understand why this place is called? not just a repository, but a genebank, seeds, all so-called safes or cells, deep underground everything is locked and guarded, and here it is always plus four dark and a certain humidity food security. it is not in gold and currency. and so in jars and flasks. here are collected the most life-capable specimens that have been stored here for decades. some of them were laid down by the babyl himself. it was nikolai ivanovich vavilov, a russian soviet scientist, geneticist, botanist, collector chemist, who personally chose a place for a bank in the kuban , now there is the largest collection of wheat. watermelon cabbage pumpkin corn, cotton, magician, more than two hundred crops in total. and hundreds of thousands of samples in the first place. everything. this is intended for scientists who, on the basis of collections, develop new varieties of the collection that is stored.