Beautiful green area with exotic plants and a pond under the guise of the Botanical garden of the Baltic Federal University of Immanuel Kant is located in the heart of Kaliningrad. Park area of about fourteen acres is a nursery for 2, 5 thousand plants, of which 39 species listed in the Red book.

The Botanical garden was founded in 1904, the head of the Department of higher plants University Professor Paul Keber in the city of königsberg gardening. Green zone was established for practical training of University students and provided school Koenigsberg plants for botany class. In honor of the founder of the garden was a memorial plate, preserved to our days. In 1938 the German Foundation hothouse plants had more than four thousand names. At the end of the Second world war, the Botanical garden was completely destroyed.

In Soviet times, on the territory of königsberg Botanical garden was organized by the research station of green building, which workers have built new greenhouses, restored greenhouses and cleared the pond. In 1959, the green economy were brought tropical and subtropical plants from the Botanical gardens of Moscow, which served as the impetus for further expansion of the collection of rare species. In 1967, the nursery was transferred to the Kaliningrad University and remains its science division.

In our day Kaliningrad Botanical garden is a landscaped green area with a complex of greenhouses, nurseries woody plants, greenhouses, collectible plots of woody and herbaceous plants and a picturesque pond in the center. The most noteworthy plants in the garden are two sixty-year-old date palms and 110-year-old long - time resident, Livistona Chinese, the height of which exceeds fourteen feet. For the latter was the superstructure in the greenhouse.

Every year in the Botanical garden hosts more than two hundred thematic and sightseeing tours.