Moscow University Herbarium

[4] The Moscow University Herbarium added a millionth specimen to the collections in June 2016.

[1] Since 2005, major accessions originated from Eastern Europe, Siberia and Russian Far East, the Caucasus, and South Asia (vascular plants); Taimyr, Russian Far East, and North Caucasus (bryophytes).

The Moscow University Herbarium has gained budget for the digitisation of collections within the Program of the National Depository Bank of Live Systems, and around 911,000 specimens (89%) were scanned since May 2015.

All these records are published already online,[5] including JPG images and metadata required for indexing.

[6] Currently, the Moscow Digital Herbarium holds the largest digitised herbarium collections from Russia, Ukraine, Mongolia, Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, Latvia, as well as from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan.