http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/10/26/land/
Chamber on the audit recommended leaving at least 25 hectares of land Pavlovski station near St. Petersburg, in whose territory the plant gene bank, founded Nikolai Vavilov. This writes "Russian Newspaper ".
Pavlovsk Experimental Station of All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Vavilov (VIR) was founded in 1926, and the main ideologue of its creation was an outstanding Russian geneticist Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov. At the station was planted a huge number of varieties various plants (including fruit, berry and ornamental plants).
In 2009, the Government Commission on Housing Development has decision to confiscate the Pavlov station two plots of land area of 71.4 and 19.5 hectares for the construction of low-rise housing economy class. Plots were in permanent use at the station were the order of Rosimushchestvo transferred to the Federal Fund for Housing Development (RZHS). Representatives of the Pavlovsk station tried to challenge this order in the Arbitration Court in Moscow, but the final decision was rendered in favor of RZHS.
As a result, the smaller of the two sites was put up for auction, which are currently suspended. Audit of the Joint Commission The Chamber and the Ministry of Agriculture showed that a large plot of 20 hectares of land (about 28 percent of the area) took the crops currant, honeysuckle, wild strawberries and other crops, and the total number of samples is four thousand pieces. On a smaller area is less common nursery silage cultures, and its area is about half a hectare.
According to the Foundation RZHS Alexander Braverman, formerly Pavlovskaya station and the RAAS is not bother to "prove the fund that the disputed sections of them really have a unique collection of plants. Braverman's words the newspaper "Izvestia" .
This is not the first test, which is held in Pavlovsk station. In September, the commission recommended the Ministry of Economic Development keep the station twice less land than the commission of the Accounting Chamber and the Ministry of Agriculture (13,2 hectares). According to the auditor the auditor of the Accounting Chamber of Russian Federation Mikhail Odintsov contradictions in the decisions of the commissions is not because they were "not aimed to compete with each other." In addition Odintsov said "injustice collection Legally, since the legislation of the Russian Federation there is no such thing as "genetic collection. In early October in support of the Pavlov station by a group of foreign scientists, which published an open letter .