First Post-war Years of L. I. Rubtsova – a New Stage in Life and Work. Botanical Secrets of Mezhigorie near Kiev

The beginning of a new stage in the life and work of the outstanding landscape architect, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Leonid Ivanovich Rubtsov is analyzed. An experienced landscape architect L. I. Rubtsov was invited from Leningrad to Kiev to participate in the construction of an academic botanical garden (now the N. N. Grishko National Botanical Garden of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) in 1946. He began his work in Kiev as the head of the department of floriculture and greenhouse crops, and also studied the Trostyanets arboretum in the Chernihiv region. In 1946 L. I. Rubtsov took part in an expedition to Germany to acquire plants for the construction of a botanical garden. In 1946-1947 L. I. Rubtsov also performed a responsible task - landscaping the dacha of N. S. Khrushchev in Mezhigorie near Kiev. A modern study of the territory of the former government dachas of Mezhigorie made it possible to assume that a certain number of plants brought to the botanical garden in 1946 from Germany were planted as well at the dacha of N. S. Khrushchev under the project and guidance of Leonid Ivanovich Rubtsov. The plantations preserved on the site of the former government dachas have a significant scientific value as a dendrological collection and as an example of the landscape composition of the late 1940s.