Order No. 2n of the Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations validating the Regulation on the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution the Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences named after N.V. Tsitsin as protected natural area of federal significance.

This Order validates the Regulation on the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution the Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences named after N.V. Tsitsin (located in Moscow) as protected natural area of federal significance, defines tasks, scientific profile, the particulars of legal status, organizational structure, applicable special protection regime as protected natural area of federal significance. The main purpose of the Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences named after N.V. Tsitsin shall be performance of fundamental research and applied developments in the field of experimental botany. Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences named after N.V. Tsitsin shall perform the following tasks: (a) development of theoretical foundations for the introduction and acclimatization of plants; (b) introduction of rare and economically valuable plant species of the flora of Russia; (c) development of scientific foundations of decorative gardening and greenery; (d) development of theoretical foundations and methods for preserving plant gene pool; (e) creation of special collections of plants in order to preserve biodiversity and enrichment of flora, preservation of natural environment and natural landscapes, preservation of a unique forest area of oak forests; (f) development of theoretical foundations and new methods of remote hybridization with the purpose of creating new species and forms of economically important plants; (g) development of scientific foundations of immunity and protection of plants from pests and diseases; (h) development of methods for environmental education; (i) popularization and propaganda of bioecological knowledge; (j) 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 significance; and (k) conducting educational, pedagogical and scientific work in the fields of botany and nature protection, plant growing and selection, decorative gardening and landscape architecture.