Аннотация:On 8–11 July 2019 the N.V. Tsitsin Main Botanic garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences heldan all-Russian scientific conference with international participation “Academician N.V. Tsitsin’s Legacy. Current state and development prospects”, dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the birth of Academician N.V. Tsitsin (1898–1980), founding director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Main Botanical Garden. The staff of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University presented their reports on the history of plant collections at the MSU Botanical garden at the plenary session as well as at the session on “Botanic gardens as centures of integrated study and conservation of plants”.