Main lines of activities:
- studying natural and cultivated flora of the Right-Bank Forest-Steppe of Ukraine;
- preserving collections of living plants, including rare and endangered species, as well as park plantations and landscape compositions, in artificial conditions in the southern part of Right-Bank Forest-Steppe of Ukraine;
- research in the field of plant introduction and acclimatization, vegetaion protection; studying issues of landscape park construction by the example of dendropark;
- developing propagation technologis for the most valuable plant species and introducing them into culture;
- science propaganda and education in botany, environment protection, ornamental gardening and landscape planning.
Principal achievements and developments:
- A prospective research trend has been identified; it involves studies of natural and cultivated flora of the southern Forest-Steppe of Ukraine alongside with plant introduction and acclimatization in the region.
- A plant collection has been assembled, which as of January 1, 2008 included 3430 taxa, including 546 arboreous, 1557 shrub, 115 liana, 1212 herbaceous species; of them 914 of them being introduced and 298 aboriginal.
- A technology for meristem propagation of numerous valuable decorative plants has been developed.
- Technologies for seed and vegetative reproduction of economically valuable plants with lignified and green grafts outdoors, in artificial-mist and in greenhouse have been improved; optimal methods of decorative plant grafting have been identified.
- Relying on studies of basic traditional elements of artistic gardening theory, an essentially new 53-hectare park has been planted, using park designs that meet the present-day standards of artistic landscape planning and the basic collection stock of introduced plants.
An architectural design for constructing and restoring the semantics of NAS ‘Sofiyivka’ dendrological park has been determined on the basis of materialized episodes from Homer’s poem “Odissey” alongside with the names of its heroes, minor architectural objects etc.