Leonid Ivanovich Rubtsov's trip to China: 1959 expedition

The article tells about the trip of the head of the Department of Dendrology of the Botanic Garden of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Professor L. I. Rubtsov to China in 1959, as a part of the expedition of a group of scientists: the director of the Botanic Garden of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, the corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Professor F. N. Rusanov; Candidate of Biological Sciences K. Kh. Khodjaev (Botanic Garden of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR), the director of the Pamir Botanic Garden of the Academy of Sciences of the Tajik SSR, Professor A. V. Gursky; the director of the Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the Turkmen SSR, Professor S.O. Ovezmuradov; the director of the Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR, Professor V. Kh. Tutayuk. The experts visited Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and their neighbouring areas. They visited reservation parks, botanical gardens, botanical and forest institutes, seed plots, parks, agricultural exhibitions and museums.