Altai Botanical Garden

The Altai Botanical Garden is located in the southeast of the city of Ridder. The main goal in creating the botanical garden was to develop the basis for the protection and reproduction of rare, endangered and endemic plants East Kazakhstan. The main objectives: the creation of scientific collections of plants, the publication of literature on the activities of the botanical garden, carrying out research work, organizing and conducting educational, pedagogical and cultural-educational work among the population. The Altai Botanical Garden was organized by resolution of the Presidium of KAZFAN USSR dated January 7, 1935 No. 1/2 in the city of Ridder on the southern slope of Mount Sokol. Today, the territory of the botanical garden is 154,2 hexodes and includes territories for scientific purposes, a protected area, public, exhibition and administrative areas.

The soil in the botanical garden includes several varieties and fits well with the relief; chernozem-like silty loams occur here; on steep slopes there are chernozem-like cartilaginous and undeveloped loams. The climate is sharply continental.

The vegetation in the botanical garden is represented mainly by meadow and steppe elements. In early spring, the garden blooms and herbs, flowers and berries bloom here until autumn, among them such as: open lumbago, large-rooted spurge, false stamen cornflower, alpine aster, meadowsweet, green strawberry, and among the shrubs - caragana tree, caragana bush, rose hips prickly, oak-leaved meadowsweet, middle meadowsweet, chokeberry cotoneaster, Tatarian honeysuckle, Siberian barberry, Altai Siberian. The collection funds of the Altai Botanical Garden are a national achievement of Kazakhstan.

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