title: Mapping Asia Plants: The brief historical overview of botanical studies in European Russia
abstract: European part of Russia covers ~1/3 of Europe, an area of approximately 3742,000 sq km. Systematic floristic research of this area began in the 19th century, with the first complete flora of European Russia by Fedchenko and Flerov (1908–1910), which contained 3542 species and many varieties. The most important modern source of floristic information on this territory are Flora partis Europaeae URSS (Tsvelev et al., 1974–1989) with Flora of Eastern Europe (Tsvelev, 1996–2004), which contain about 
journal: Global Ecology and Conservation