Botanical Garden was created as a " school garden " in 1917 on the initiative of GM Sadowski agronomist at the place where the oldest park in the city of Vitebsk , which went down several terraces to the valley of the river floodplain . Vitba . Rugged terrain , the presence of soil differences , as well as the southern slope of the upper and lower terraces pripoymennyh , good watering (b. Vitba and two ponds ) favored the cultivation of plants of different environmental conditions. In 1953-1954, . Botanical Garden reorganized and transferred to the regional station naturalists and agrobiostation Vitebsk Pedagogical Institute. Kirov (now Vitebsk State University ) . Now under the Botanical Gardens busy area of 4 hectares , located on the upper terrace . Of particular interest here is the arboretum, broken down by geographical , and greenhouses .