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This botanical garden with the area of 876.6 hectares, one of the country's oldest, is known all over the world. The first trees brought from other continents were planted there, near the Greek settlement of Nikita in 1812. The founder and first director of the garden was Ch. Steven, a Swede by origin, the famous scientist and researcher of the Crimean flora.
The collection of the Nikits'kyi Botanical Garden numbers 240,000 species, kinds and forms of plants. Unique and very valuable monuments in 'the park are the bamboo grove planted in 1912, a thousand-year old turpentine tree, a 700-year old olive tree, a 500-year old common yew, an evergreen sequoia planted in 1840, the 100-year old alley of pyramidal cypresses, and a mammoth tree 33 m high and 1.7 m in trunk diameter.
The Nikits'kyi Gan.;en maintains close contacts with numerous foreign scientific institutions. Here function departments of flora, nature protection, dendrology and decorative gardening, floriculture, pomiculture, subtropical and nuciferous cultures, new industrial plants, mobilisation and introduction of plant resources, biochemistry of plants, physiology of plants, agro-ecology and plant nutrition, plant protection, cytogenetics, and research-organisational.