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Greenhouses to visit in Russia

The Verrière atlas lists 26 greenhouses in Russia, built between 1834 and 2018.

Russia's greenhouses hold some of Europe's oldest living collections: Moscow's Aptekarsky Ogorod and St Petersburg's Peter the Great Botanical Garden descend from apothecary gardens founded under Peter the Great. The Soviet era added large scientific complexes such as Novosibirsk's.

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1834Oldest — Historic Orangery of the Kazan Zoo-Botanical Garden

2018Newest — Orangeries of the Kemerovo State University Botanical Garden (Botanichesky sad KemGU)

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All 26 greenhouses, oldest to newest

Historic Orangery of the Kazan Zoo-Botanical Garden

🇷🇺 Kazan, Tatarstan

Built in stone in 1834–1836 for Kazan University, it still holds palms planted in the nineteenth century.

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Orangeries of the Saint Petersburg State University Botanical Garden (Botanichesky Sad SPbGU), Saint Petersburg, Vasilyevsky Island

Orangeries of the Saint Petersburg State University Botanical Garden (Botanichesky Sad SPbGU)

🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg, Vasilyevsky Island

Its great palm house, said to be the tallest in Saint Petersburg, shelters plants that lived through the Siege of Leningrad.

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Palm Greenhouse, Aptekarsky Ogorod, Moscow

Palm Greenhouse, Aptekarsky Ogorod

🇷🇺 Moscow

Russia's oldest botanical garden shelters, beneath its glasshouse, a cycad over two centuries old, brought back around 1807.

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Palm House, Peter the Great Botanical Garden, Saint Petersburg

Palm House, Peter the Great Botanical Garden

🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg

Bombed during the Siege of Leningrad, the glasshouse saved only about a thousand plants; its collections now exceed 12,000 taxa.

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Palm Orangery of the Tauride Garden (Flowers exhibition hall), Saint Petersburg

Palm Orangery of the Tauride Garden (Flowers exhibition hall)

🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg

A palm house of 1900 from Tsarskoye Selo, reassembled in the 1930s in the Tauride Garden and now a tropical garden and concert hall.

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Orangeries of the Ushinsky Pedagogical University Botanical Garden (Yaroslavl), Yaroslavl (Kotorosl embankment), Yaroslavl Oblast

Orangeries of the Ushinsky Pedagogical University Botanical Garden (Yaroslavl)

🇷🇺 Yaroslavl (Kotorosl embankment), Yaroslavl Oblast

Founded in 1927, the garden grows orchids, palms, citrus and coffee in two orangeries, one tropical and one subtropical.

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Orangery of the Samara University Botanical Garden (Botanichesky Sad)

🇷🇺 Samara, Samara Oblast

At 1,200 m² it is billed as the largest orangery on the Middle Volga, and nearly a third of its plants are threatened species.

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Orangery of the Lobachevsky University Botanical Garden (Botanichesky Sad NNGU)

🇷🇺 Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

A southern magnolia raised from seeds given by Nikolai Vavilov has grown here since 1936, the orangery's very first year.

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Fondovaya Orangery (Collections Orangery), Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden, Moscow

Fondovaya Orangery (Collections Orangery), Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden

🇷🇺 Moscow

Its founding collections came from Germany after the war: a first train of 48 wagons carried 10,660 tropical plants.

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Orangeries of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Botanical Garden

🇷🇺 Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast

The central glasshouse was raised by five metres for a Livistona brought from Moscow in 1959, now nearly 14 m tall.

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Orangery of the Botanical Garden-Institute, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Oranzhereya BSI DVO RAN), Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai

Orangery of the Botanical Garden-Institute, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Oranzhereya BSI DVO RAN)

🇷🇺 Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai

Grown from two small 1950s glasshouses whose walls still show inside, it holds Russia's largest collection of Cymbidium orchids.

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Glasshouses of the Botanical Garden of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Botanichesky Sad UrO RAN), Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast

Glasshouses of the Botanical Garden of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Botanichesky Sad UrO RAN)

🇷🇺 Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast

Four glasshouses built between 1952 and 1983 keep some 2,000 tropical taxa alive on the edge of the Urals.

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Winter Garden and Orangery of the Palace of Pioneers (Vorobyovy Gory), Moscow (Kosygina Street, Vorobyovy Gory)

Winter Garden and Orangery of the Palace of Pioneers (Vorobyovy Gory)

🇷🇺 Moscow (Kosygina Street, Vorobyovy Gory)

Three triangulated glass domes 8 m wide, recreated from the original plans, light the winter garden of the Palace of Pioneers.

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Siberian Botanical Garden Orangeries, Tomsk State University, Tomsk

Siberian Botanical Garden Orangeries, Tomsk State University

Its 31-metre central orangery ranks among the tallest in the world, and plants that arrived in 1885 are still alive inside.

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Central Siberian Botanical Garden Glasshouses

🇷🇺 Novosibirsk (Akademgorodok)

More than 7,000 species, forms and varieties of tropical and subtropical plants grow in glasshouses built when the garden moved to Akademgorodok.

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Glasshouses of the N. A. Avrorin Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute, Kirovsk, Murmansk Oblast

Glasshouses of the N. A. Avrorin Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute

🇷🇺 Kirovsk, Murmansk Oblast

At 67°38′ N, beyond the Arctic Circle, its glasshouses grow tropical plants in Russia's northernmost botanical garden.

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Ufa Lemonarium (Ufimsky Limonariy), Ufa, Bashkortostan

Ufa Lemonarium (Ufimsky Limonariy)

🇷🇺 Ufa, Bashkortostan

Russia's first attempt at growing lemons in the ground under glass: 1,300 trees here yield 20 to 22 tonnes of fruit a year.

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Saratov Lemonarium (Saratovsky Limonariy)

🇷🇺 Saratov, Saratov Oblast

Fifteen lemon varieties and some fifty tropical species fruit all year under the glass roof of a 500 m² greenhouse founded in 2001.

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Tsaritsyno Orangeries, Moscow

Tsaritsyno Orangeries

🇷🇺 Moscow

By the mid-1780s Catherine II's orangeries here held ten thousand trees, tended by the German botanist Johann Rack.

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Orangery of the Moscow Zoo (Оранжерея Московского зоопарка)

🇷🇺 Moscow

A glass rotunda at the heart of Moscow Zoo, devoted to the tallest tropical trees, built in 2012.

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Florarium of Zaryadye Park (Флорариум, "Заповедное посольство" pavilion)

🇷🇺 Moscow (Zaryadye Park, Varvarka Street 6, building 1)

A glass funnel 8 m deep, partly underground, where more than 300 Russian species grow without soil, their roots misted.

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Zelyony Dom ('Green House') Orangery, Tver State University Botanical Garden

🇷🇺 Tver (Zavolzhsky District), Tver Oblast

Opened in late 2017, an orangery of about 120 m² whose centrepiece is an olive tree more than 140 years old.

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Orangeries of the Kemerovo State University Botanical Garden (Botanichesky sad KemGU), Kemerovo (Lesnaya Polyana district), Kuzbass

Orangeries of the Kemerovo State University Botanical Garden (Botanichesky sad KemGU)

🇷🇺 Kemerovo (Lesnaya Polyana district), Kuzbass

Two glazed orangeries, tropical and subtropical, opened in Kemerovo in 2018 and hold over 1,000 species under ceilings 11 to 13 m high.

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Orangeries of the Botanic Garden of Irkutsk State University (Ботанический сад ИГУ)

🇷🇺 Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast

More than 3,000 tropical species, the richest collection in Eastern Siberia according to the garden's audio guide, under the glass roofs of a university garden.

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Orangeries of the Southern Federal University Botanical Garden (Oranzherei Botanicheskogo Sada YuFU), Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast

Orangeries of the Southern Federal University Botanical Garden (Oranzherei Botanicheskogo Sada YuFU)

🇷🇺 Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast

Four glasshouses covering 1,064 m² hold the largest collection of tropical and subtropical plants in southern Russia.

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Orangery of the South Ural Botanical Garden-Institute (Oranzhereya YuUBSI), Ufa, Bashkortostan

Orangery of the South Ural Botanical Garden-Institute (Oranzhereya YuUBSI)

🇷🇺 Ufa, Bashkortostan

A banana plant has broken the roof glazing several times and has to be cut back, which stops it from fruiting.

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Architecture in Russia

Tsentrosoyuz building, Moscow

Tsentrosoyuz building

🇷🇺 Moscow

Three blocks on pilotis framing a club, threaded over six levels by ramps: an "architectural promenade" born of the idea that "architecture is circulation".

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