Nikita Travel Guide

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  Westwards to the Seaside Park, nearer to Yalta, another park is situated on Cape Ay-Todor. Aboriginal species - downy oak, tall juniper - grow together with relic coniferous exotic plants: numerous species of pine-tree from different countries of the world, metasequoia with... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  The Seaside Park is the best protected by neighboring mountain crests. The climate is milder here and that is why the most heat-loving evergreens are presented in this part of the garden: various palm-trees, cedar and osmantuses, mastic pistachio-tree, numerous brightly... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  In the Lower Park of the garden grows Californian oak (it cannot be met anywhere else in Russia and Ukraine). In Nikitsky garden there are also Allepian pine-tree, Numidian (Algerian) silver-tree, grass-leaved Californian oak and Arizonian cypress, Virginian juniper and the... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  The excursion around Nikita gardens begins in the Upper Park, where along the skillfully put into shape alleys, one can meet the plantations, the species of which were delivered from all the continents of the Earth: bamboo from Nothern China, evergreen stone oak, powerful... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  You’d better make it from Yalta by a fixed-route taxi N34, trolley buses N2 and N3. Boats from Yalta, but the road from a mooring up to the park is rather long and tiresome. There are two roads - old (Lower) and new (Upper). Nikitski Botanical Garden is situated about 7 km.... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  I often ask this question having appeared in clean and well-groomed Europe. I ask this question having appeared in any fine place in Russia (or Ukraine just the same), littered and dirtied by locals or tourists. The Nikitsky garden is just such a place. It is possible to... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  Characteristic parts of the Crimean landscape are skeletons of buildings which did not completed even from the Soviet times. These constructions began 15-20 years ago. They had to be turn to sanatorias and rest houses. But the Soviet Union disintegration has not allowed... 

 bugulma Says:  The garden is the place of scientific studies where some new sorts of plans were produced for special territories of the former USSR, including Middle Asia and southern part of European territory of Russia. Besides some new sorts of flowers were got in the garden. In 1962... 

 bugulma Says:  The bothanical garden's first aim was to collect some plants in one place but several years later it becomes a scientific center as well as the center of the horticulture and viticulture. The special school of horticulture was opened here in 1869. There were several times... 

 bugulma Says:  The garden was founded in order of Aleksander I in 1811 (the real foundation and works were in 1812. The garden was founded due to petition of the local administration A.Rishelle and the scientist M.Biberstein. The first director was H.Steven who chose the place for the... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  We recommend beginning a survey with the Upper Park. Then you will go downwards, and excursion will not be such tiresome if it begins with the Lower Park and you have to rise upwards.It is opened daily 8.00-19.00. The greenhouse is opened 9.00-16.00. Entrance fee 20 grivnas... 

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  The Garden is about 200 years old.The edict of the founding of Imperial botanical garden at the public cost in the Crimea was signed in Petersburg on the 10th of June, 1811 with the active participation of scientist-botanist, inspector in silkworm breeding on the South of...