# Komarov Botanical Institute

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The **Komarov Botanical Institute** of the [Russian Academy of Sciences](/source/Russian_Academy_of_Sciences) ([Russian](/source/Russian_language): Ботанический институт им. В.Л.Комарова РАН) is a leading [botanical](/source/Botany) institution in Russia, It is located on [Aptekarsky Island](/source/Aptekarsky_Island) in [St. Petersburg](/source/Saint_Petersburg), and is named after the Russian [botanist](/source/Botanist) [Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov](/source/Vladimir_Leontyevich_Komarov) (1869–1945). The institute was established in 1931 as merger of the Botanical Garden and the Botanical Museum of the Academy of Sciences.

The institute hosts [Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden](/source/Saint_Petersburg_Botanical_Garden) as well as [herbarium](/source/Herbarium) collections that house over seven million specimens of plants and [fungi](/source/Fungus).[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

The Institute's LE Herbarium has approximately 200,000-250 000 specimens from Latin America in storage. The most known collections from Latin America include those of German naturalist [G. Langsdorff](/source/Georg_von_Langsdorff) (collected between 1814-1817 & 1821-1829) and German botanist [Ludwig Riedel](/source/Ludwig_Riedel) (1821-1828 & 1831-1836) from Brazil, G. Mertens (1826) and German naturalist [Wilhelm Friedrich Karwinsky von Karwin](/source/Wilhelm_Friedrich_Karwinsky_von_Karwin) (1841-1843) from Mexico, and plants collected in expeditions of the Soviet Rubber Trust in 1926-1928.[1]

Among the scientists who have worked there are [Yevgenia Pobedimova](/source/Yevgenia_Pobedimova) and [Modest Iljin](/source/Modest_Iljin).

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Herbarium Russian Academy of Sciences - V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute, Global Plants on JSTOR"](https://plants.jstor.org/partner/LE). *plants.jstor.org*. Retrieved 2 August 2021.

## Further reading

- Shetler, Stanwyn G. *The Komarov Botanical Institute, 250 Years of Russian Research*. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1967.

## External links

- Herbarium Collections Database - [https://www.binran.ru/collections/](https://www.binran.ru/collections/)

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