my name is vladimir nikolaevich reshetnikov, i am an academician of the national academy of sciencesworker of science of the republic of belarus, head of the department for chemistry and plant biotechnology central botanical garden. how do botanic gardens differ when evaluating activities? 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 the royal garden of great britain to yugan their lectures - this is a record of about 34,000 plant species. we currently have 15,000 of them. that's a lot. we are among the top ten gardens, therefore an indicator of the european and even north american region. the formation of the botanical garden occurred in the pre-war period 1932, when scientists in st. petersburg , belarus and moscow made the main global strategic layout of the central botanical garden, which was that from the central parterre is the center of the botanical garden. in a radial direction there were alleys that divided the territory of the botanical garden into natural plant complexes. this