Moscow Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences

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Tsytsin Main Moscow Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences, founded in April 1945, is the largest in Europe.^[1]^{[clarification needed]} It covers a territory of approximately 3.61 km², bordering the All-Russian Exhibition Center, and contains a live exhibition of more than twenty thousand different species of plants coming from various parts of the world. The garden also has a scientific research laboratory and contains a rosarium with twenty thousand rose bushes, a dendrarium,^{[clarification needed]} an oak forest with the average age of the trees exceeding 100 years, and a greenhouse of more than 5000 square meters.^{[verification needed]}