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The main players of the Krylia Sovetov team, Bogdan Ovsyannikov, Benjamin Garre and Amar Rakhmanovich, as well as honored veteran of Krylia Valerian Panfilov, presented the director of the Botanic Garden, Svetlana Rozno, with a T-shirt and a Jogel ball made from environmental materials. It is noteworthy that the age difference between the Botanic Garden and the Krylia Sovetov Club is 10 years.
Svetlana Rozno conducted a tour of the garden and greenhouse for the guests, told about the plants whose seeds had been in space. One of these cosmonaut plants is the thin-leaved peony. At the end of the 19th century, this beautiful flower with bright scarlet petals was widely distributed in the steppe areas of Samara, Saratov, Ulyanovsk and Orenburg regions. It is believed that the thin-leaved peony could become the prototype of the scarlet flower from Sergei Aksakov's fairy tale. The basis of the writer's work were memories and fairy tales that he had heard in childhood, spent in the family estate 200 kilometers from Samara.
In the 20th century, the flower completely disappeared from the territory of the Samara region. Anthropogenic load, hay harvesting, the attitude of people picking wildflowers and digging bushes for private yards led to the destruction of the "scarlet flower". According to the official data of the Red Book of the Samara region, by 2007 the thin-leaved peony had not grown in the region for more than 50 years. However, thanks to the efforts of the staff of the Botanic Garden, the unique plant was not only preserved but also revived in the Samara region. For the last 9 years, it has not been included in the category of endangered plants of the Red Book of the Samara region.
"The story of a rare flower, the thin-leaved peony, resonated with me the most. It became the prototype of the "Scarlet Flower" from Aksakov's fairy tale of the same name, which was one of my favorite children's fairy tales. It's nice to know that this Red Book plant is being successfully revived in our region," Krylia goalkeeper Bogdan Ovsyannikov shared his impressions following the tour.
For reference:
The Botanic Garden is a structural unit of Samara National Research University. It is a specially protected natural area (SPNA) of regional significance and first of all an open-air scientific laboratory of the university’s Faculty of Biology. Research works on biological diversity studies, the return to the wild of plants on the verge of extinction, preservation of the gene pool of rare, red-book and valuable plant species are conducted here.
Four thousand seven hundred taxa (species, forms, varieties) of trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants of various geographical origins grow on the territory of a unique natural and anthropogenic object containing the most valuable collection funds. The collection funds of plants in the botanical gardens of the world are considered a national treasure.
Photo: PFC "Krylia Sovetov"
