The agrobiological station forms an educational and experimental foundation for training sessions and students’ field practices. It also serves as a resource for GASU teachers, post-graduate students, and scientific researchers and provides the corresponding university departments with natural hand-out and demonstration materials.
The agrobiological station has an area of 38,6 hectares and includes the following sectors:
Vegetable growing sector;
Sector of berries and horticultures;
Sector of biology techniques;
Decorative sector;
Sector of rare and disappearing plants;
Botanical site (tree nursery).
The maintenance, direction, and volume of work of each sector are defined by the curricula and research work plans of the corresponding departments: plant growing, agrochemistry and protection of plants, botany, phytophysiology, as well as characteristics of agricultural production.
TREE NURSERY (ARBORETUM)
The GASU arboretum occupies a territory of 2,5 hectares. There are two large alleys in the site center: birch and oak.
In 4 sectors of the nursery - Altai, European, Far East, and North American - there are more than 100 tree species, gymnosperms, floral bushes, and also twinning plants. They unite 46 genera, 21 families and 2 groups: gymnosperms and angiosperms. The arboretum also has about 300 species of natural flora and more than 50 species of decorative-flowering plants.
Updated 07.10.2019 by N. Yurkova