Order No. 27n of the Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations validating the Regulation on the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution Botanical Garden of Peter the Great of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution Botanical Institute named after V.L. Komarov of the Russian Academy of Sciences as protected natural area of federal significance.

This Order validates the Regulation on the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution Botanical Garden of Peter the Great of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution Botanical Institute named after V.L. Komarov of the Russian Academy of Sciences as protected natural area of federal significance (located in St. Petersburg) defines tasks, scientific profile of the institution as natural science, legal status, organizational structure and applicable protection regime. The main purpose of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution Botanical Garden of Peter the Great of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution Botanical Institute named after V.L. Komarov of the Russian Academy of Sciences shall be performance of fundamental and applied research in the field of botany, ecology, forest management, plant protection, conservation of nature. The main tasks of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution Botanical Garden of Peter the Great of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution Botanical Institute named after V.L. Komarov of the Russian Academy of Sciences shall be as follows: (a) development of scientific foundations and methods for preserving and protecting the gene pool of plants of natural and cultural flora, introduction and acclimatization of plants; (b) creation and preservation in artificial conditions of collections of living plants (especially rare and endangered species) and other botanical species of great scientific, educational, economic and cultural importance, and also exhibitions in order to preserve biodiversity and enrich flora; and (c) conducting educational, pedagogical and scientific and educational work in the fields of botany and nature protection, ecology, plant growing and selection, decorative gardening and landscape architecture.