A tourist taking pictures of a blossoming plum tree in the Yuyuan Garden of Delight in Shanghai.11.03.2013#1408784
A mock-up of a Triceratops dinosaur, part of the American Dinosaur Land exhibition at the Sokolniki Exhibition Center.10.05.1994#8267850
A horticulture expert at the Sever (North) dacha cooperative in the Moscow Region tends to a clematis (Clematis florida) shrub.25.08.1993#8263022
A horticulture expert at the Sever (North) dacha cooperative in the Moscow Region mows a lawn.25.08.1993#8263020
Ginseng ("a root of life"), a perennial medicinal plant of the Araliaceae family. In Russia, it primarily grows in the Far East.01.07.1991#8329310
Employees of a forestry plant saxaul bushes to stop the movement of sands from the Hungry Steppe to the west of the Fergana region, Uzbek SSR.12.10.1990#6655623
Left: Alexander Zhukov, Director of the Anapa Regional Experimental Viticulture and Wine-Making Station, in a greenhouse.01.10.1989#8218252
The island of Saaremaa, Estonian SSR. The Viidumäe Nature Reserve, founded in 1957 for the preservation of rare species of plants. A sweetgale (Myrica gale), a rare shrub listed in the Red Book of endangered species.01.06.1986#2862561
Seasons is an exhibition of works by Vologda taxidermist artist Nikolai Kochin, who makes fragments of living flora from unnatural materials (fabric, paper, wax). Exhibition hall of the All-Russian Society for Nature Conservation. Fragment of the Cornflowers in Rye exhibition composition.01.03.1986#8955492
Moscow. The Four Seasons Exhibition of works by artist-taxidermist Nikolai Kochin from Vologda at the Exhibition Hall of the All-Russian Nature Conservation Society. Kochin manufactures elements of living flora from non-natural materials, including fabrics, paper and wax. This photo shows a detail of the Spring Flowers composition.01.03.1986#8955483
Members of the Zhukovka School Forestry in the Bryansk Region patrol the most fire-prone forest sections.01.07.1985#8367519
Siskins in shrubs searching for food in a winter forest. The Belovezhskaya Pushcha State Nature Reserve.01.02.1985#23683
The Georgian SSR. Staffers of the Gagra Arboretum, a subsidiary of the Main Botanical Garden of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.01.06.1983#8145756
The Georgian SSR. Vladimir Rossinsky, Ph. D. (Biiology), a staffer of the Gagra Arboretum, a subsidiary of the Main Botanical Garden of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.01.06.1983#8145784
Illustration reproduction from children’s magazine Veselye Kartinki (Funny Pictures).01.01.1981#534350
The botanic park in Palanga, the former park of Count Felix Tyszkiewicz. Lithuania. 1979.01.08.1979#839196
Kiev, the capital of the Ukrainian SSR. Kiev's boulevards are shrouded in greenery thanks to the efforts of the unit of tree planting at Kievzelenstroi municipal agency (currently Kiev municipal agency of landscaping and urban vegetation management Kievzelenstroi). Trees are planted in Kiev's new district.27.10.1977#6500918
The capital of the Ukrainian SSR is virtually shrouded in greenery thanks to the efforts of the unit of tree planting at Kievzelenstroi municipal agency (currently Kiev municipal agency of landscaping and urban vegetation management Kievzelenstroi). A wide range of trees and shrubs are grown in the nursery to be planted in the city's streets and parks.15.04.1977#6500920
Igor Pogorsky, Kiev's chief "forest ranger," head of the unit of tree planting at Kievzelenstroi municipal agency (currently Kiev municipal agency of landscaping and urban vegetation management Kievzelenstroi), Ukrainian SSR.15.04.1977#6500919
Ukrainian SSR. Igor Pogorsky, Kiev's chief "forest ranger," who heads the unit of tree planting at Kievzelenstroi municipal agency (currently Kiev municipal agency of landscaping and urban vegetation management Kievzelenstroi), helps schoolchildren place birdhouses in one of the city's parks.15.04.1977#6499788
The capital of the Ukrainian SSR is virtually shrouded in greenery thanks to the efforts of the unit of tree planting at Kievzelenstroi municipal agency (currently Kiev municipal agency of landscaping and urban vegetation management Kievzelenstroi). A wide range of trees and shrubs are grown in a special nursery to be planted in the city's streets and parks.28.03.1977#6500927
The "Valdaisky" National Park. Gamekeeper Grigory Kuznetsov walking around the park's territory. Novgorod Region. 1976.04.06.1976#642795
Mangyshlak Peninsula, now Mangistau, in the Kazakh SSR. Photo: Gennady Sergeyev, the director of an arboretum/plant nursery in Shevchenko (Aktau) city, and Engineer-Physiologist Anna Ivanova inspect blooming plants.01.06.1973#5977002
