400 species van local plants!

Beside the park area van het Polar-alpine Botanical Garden is a protected area; a form van a natures reserve. The vegetation van all altitudinal belts van Khibiny bergen is preserved within the area van 1.250 ha (out van 1.670 ha). There are special nurseries van local flora in de gardens. One can see more than 400 species van local plants groeien in our regio (Moermansk Oblast). These are tree species like small birches en crawling dwarf birches, shrubs, Kustal, toendra, en bog species.

Wild animals!

The forests en bergen around Kirovsk are a nice place voor wild animals naar live. Hairs, foxes, squirrels, martens en even bears are usual
habitants van that area. van course, they are very careful en it is very difficult naar see them. But, voor example, last zomer one bear came directly naar de main avenue van the Polar-alpine Botanische tuin en was walking there without hurrying up while all employees were hiding themselves. But mostly this animal is very cautious en only what we can see is heaps van his excrements. A lot van birds as ptarmigan, heath-cock, capercaillie, Siberian jay en many others live there.

Werelds Noordermost en oldest Polar-alpine Botanical Garden
on the Kola Schiereiland in Noordwest Rusland!

The Polar-alpine Botanische tuins-Institute is situated 7 km van Kirovsk op de slope van Khibiny bergen en founded op 26th van August 1931.

Here you may get not only acquainted met the local flora but also met trees en plants which are not peculiar naar het Kola Schiereiland area. Sometimes it is really wander naar see inhabitants van the South parts van het country groeien en feeling very comfortable in the Noorder severe circumstances! You will walk surrounded by blossoming plants en among beds van flowers along the paths van het unusual place. In additional you will see a piece van real jungle under a glass roof. Unique peculiarity van this place is that these tropical plants have naar survive in our regio in zomer when there is no darkness at nacht.

The Polar-alpine Botanische tuin has a special Ecologisch path leading naar de top van a berg en you can en watch how types van plants are changing passing the five different zones.
 

1. The foothills.

It is typical van this zone naar have spruce, pine en birch forest; moss en motley grass are spread in topsoil. This zone ends in de middle van het slope.

2. The berg en forest zone.

It consists van het same forest too, but the topsoil is berry bushy.

3. The curved birch zone.

These birches are not trees but some kind van bushes.

4. berg en toendra zone.
It has dwarf (arctische) birch what is not more than 60 cm high en has small round leaves like one cent coins.

5. The stony toendra.

Here different lichens can grow, only.

To watch all this diversity van zones tijdens one comparing short hike is only possible in Noorder countries en specially in this unique Polar-alpine Botanische tuin.