The main Botanical Garden named after N. V. Tsitsin of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, the largest botanical garden in Europe. Founded on April 14, 1945, Nikolai Vasilyevich Tsitsin became the first director. It has the richest collections of plants representing the diverse flora of almost all continents and climatic zones of the globe. The living collections comprise 8220 species and 8110 forms and varieties of plants — a total of 16,330 taxa.