The mission of the Garden:  “To preserve and enrich the flora of the Baikal region and the world for people by means of educational outreach to society, and by collecting, breeding, studying, and preserving diversity of plants.”

Chief focus of activities:

• Protection of nature and biodiversity;

• Introduction of species and varieties of plants;

• International seed exchange;

• Restoration of damaged populations of rare and endangered plants:

• Education and outreach;

• Raising seedlings in the nursery for the “greening” of urban areas.