
Russia arboretum
N.V. Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden
AlixSaz · CC BY-SA 4.0
42% trees around it and 908 species recorded.
- trees within 3 km42%
- wild within 10 km45%
- species recorded908
- Altitude171 m
The forest around
42% trees.
Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.
Trees, ring by ring
- 0–1 km83%
- 1–3 km37%
- 3–6 km39%
- 6–10 km44%
What covers the land (1–3 km)
- Trees37%
- Grassland1%
- Water1%
- Bare ground0%
- Cropland2%
- Built-up59%
ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.
Who lives here
908 species recorded.
The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

































Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.
In numbers
The forest, measured.
Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).
- 42%Treesof the land within 3 km
- 45%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
- 908Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
- 171 mAltitudeabove the sea
When to walk
Best for walking from May to June.
How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.
- Jan-14°48 mm
- Feb-13°42 mm
- Mar-8°42 mm
- Apr0°49 mm
- May8°86 mm
- Jun11°86 mm
- Jul14°93 mm
- Aug12°75 mm
- Sep7°64 mm
- Oct1°69 mm
- Nov-4°58 mm
- Dec-10°52 mm
- Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
- Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
- Rain: monthly total.
The place
N.V. Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden.
Botanical garden
N.V. Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden is an arboretum in Russia.
Seen from space, 42% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 45% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.
908 species have been recorded around it: 775 plants, 7 fungi, 120 birds and 6 mammals.
The most recorded plants are: Perennial Honesty, Slender speedwell and Broadleaf enchanter's nightshade.
The best time to walk is from May to June.

Get there and walk
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- Сокольникиcampsite · 5.4 km · 1 within 10 km
- Максима Заряplace to stay · 1.3 km · 672 within 10 km
- Ostankinskiynearest town · 1.4 km in a straight line
- Sheremetyevo International Airport (SVO)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 19 km in a straight line
Plan the visit
A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The forest and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 2marked trails within 5 kmДорога в Лавру, Зелёное Kольцо Москвы
- 10named and notable trees within 6 kmКапитан Гастелло, Букетная липа, Леоновский дуб and 7 more
- 57picnic sites within 4 km
- 229shelters and huts within 6 km
- 18viewpoints within 5 km
- 4visitor centres within 6 kmИнфоцентр ВДНХ and 3 more
- 1,181car parks within 3 km
- 1campsites within 10 kmСокольники
- 672places to stay within 10 kmМаксима Заря, Байкал, ХостелРус ВДНХ and 669 more
- 274restaurants and cafés within 3 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
Around N.V. Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden.
The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.
Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.
Other forests nearby.
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q894653) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Land cover | ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0 |
| Species | 19,253 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only) |
| See these records | gbif.org |
| Names and photos | Wikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Temperature and rain | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Viewyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
The family
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