The work of the Donetsk Botanical Garden is aimed at solving urgent problems in the field of plant introduction and selection, research on biodiversity in the steppe zone and the development of scientific foundations for its conservation, industrial botany, biological invasions in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. In 2023, the staff of the Donetsk Botanical Garden carried out scientific investigations in 4 directions. Based on the research results, scientists of the Donetsk Botanical Garden published 108 publications, 72 articles are contributions to scientific journals (among them are those indexed in the Web of Sciences and Scopus – 4, in RSCI – 5, RINZ – 49), and 36 works are included in the proceedings of scientific conferences.

S.A. Prykhodko, V.V. Kozub-Ptitsa