ACADEMY 

Forest Technical Academy occupies four study buildings surrounded with beautiful park (65 ha) founded in the far 1827. Academy park is one of the old sightseeings of Petersburg, the monument to the park and gardening art of XIX century, and it is also one of the favorite recreational areas of citizens.

There are Botanical Gardens within the park, one of the oldest botanical gardens in Russia, they are 175 years old. Now they represent an educational, research, cultural unit of the Academy and a part of botanical gardens system of Russia. The Botanical Gardens have the richest collection of trees, bushes and herbage gathered at 60th parallel North.

One of the main objects of Botanical Gardens is seed exchange and publication of exchange seed catalogue. Now the delectus is being sent to botanical gardens of Russia and to botanical establishments of 43 countries of four continents. This electronic catalogue contains about 400 names and addresses. The most intensive exchange is that with botanical gardens of Germany, USA, Italy, France and Czechia.

The Academy has several unique museums in its disposal: Forest Entomology Museum, Zoology and Hunting Museum, and soil, geological, and vast herbal collections as well (more than 150 thousand samples).

The fundamental FTA library is of same age with the Academy. From the yery beginning the purpose of the library was to gather Russian and foreign forest literature as much completely as possible. At the present the library is stocking about 1,5 million volumes from the whole forestry complex. Today the library tends to perform also as a scientific information center.

For more than 40 years the publication polygraphic department has been working as an independent unit. At the moment the department annually publishes about 150 names of study methodical and scientific literature, the whole volume being for about 600 typographical sheets.
Periodic FTA editions: "SPbFTA News" (issued since 1898), "Collected reports of young scientists on FTA annual scientific conference" (since 1997), newspaper "Lesotechnik" (since 1929).