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Komarov Botanical Institute
The Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences () is a leading botanical institution in Russia, It is located on Aptekarsky Island in St. Petersburg, and is named after the Russian botanist 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 as well as herbarium collections that house over seven million specimens of plants and fungi. The latter is the
Komarov
Komarov may refer to
- People
- Komarov (surname)
- Places
- Komárov (disambiguation), several villages in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
- Komarov (volcano), a volcano on Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia
- Komarov (crater), a crater on the Moon named after Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov
- 1836 Komarov, an asteroid named after the cosmonaut
- Other
- Komarov Botanical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, named after Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov
- "Kosmonaut Vladimir