Well-known throughout the former Soviet Union in Sukhumi botanical garden has retained popularity among tourists visiting Abkhazia and in our days. The Botanical Garden has a complicated but interesting story began almost 200 years ago in the distant 1838. On the southern borders of Russia were numerous garrisons, one of them was in the fortress of Sukhum. Dr. Sukhumi garrison Bagrinovsky drew attention to the favorable humid subtropical climate coastline and a chance to recharge servicemen diet vitamin plant food, especially since it was very popular among the locals. At the same time a luxurious garden planted fruit of subtropical crops, and with this began the next botanical garden.

By the way, this place is associated with the name of the hero of the Patriotic War of 1812 N.N.Raevskogo, due to the fact that his son, Lieutenant-General NN Rajewski was the commandant of the fortress of Sukhum and its supply area garden Bagrinovsky expanded and transferred to the Defense Ministry. Garden and vegetable livestock survived two Russian-Turkish war, the Abkhaz war of 1992-93, numerous natural and economic shocks, but still pleasing riot of tropical vegetation and chirping birds. On thirty hectares of the Black Sea coast, Caucasus Mountains sheltered from north winds, it grows several thousand species of plants.

The entire exhibition is divided into fifty curtains (plant areas), joined the shady paths for tourists. There is great taken root tea bushes, thickets of laurel tree, many magnolia and water lily, citrus and olive trees. The pride of the garden is a 250-year-old linden tree, preserves the history of Sukhumi on biological media - annual rings.