Alexey Konstantinovich Skvortsov was a Soviet botanist and biologist, a specialist on amentiferous plants—willows, poplars, and birches as well as plants of the evening primrose family. A.K. Skvortsov

The Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences was founded in April 1945, and claims itself to be the largest botanical garden in Europe. It covers a total territory of approximately 3.6 km²