Tashkent Botanical Garden

Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan

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The Tashkent Botanical Garden, officially named the Botanical Garden named after Academician F. N. Rusanov, is the oldest and largest botanical garden in Central Asia, with origins dating back to the 1920s when the first garden in the city was created in 1922, and its modern 66-hectare site founded in 1950 under academician Dr. Fedor Rusanov's leadership.

Located in the south-eastern part of Tashkent near the Tashkent Zoo, it functions as a separate 65-hectare ecosystem and is managed by the Uzbek Academy of Science's Botanical Institute, specifically the Institute of the Gene Pool of Plants and Animals.

The garden houses over 4,500 species and varieties of plants including trees, shrubs, dwarf shrubs, vines, grasses, and aquatic plants across approximately 40-43 hectares of arboretum, plus greenhouses containing over 800 varieties of tropical and subtropical plants and a special nursery for medicinal herbs. 

It is divided into five geographic zones corresponding to Central Asia, Crimea and the Caucasus, Europe, the Far East and East Asia, and North America, allowing visitors to experience flora from five parts of the world through the garden's unique microclimate.