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N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources is about the plant research institute in Saint Petersburg: its names since 1894, where its collection is kept, its hemp collection, the regrowing of that collection in the 1990s and the terms on which it supplies samples. Herbarium specimens of the institute that have their own accession pages are listed at the foot of the article.

Sourcing

The history comes from Igor Loskutov's Vavilov and his Institute (1999) and the institute's own pages. The hemp collection comes from the institute's database, as it stood on 6 November 2026 (with origins from the accession pages of 4 October 2026), and from the reports on its regrowing in the Journal of the International Hemp Association (1994 to 1998). The terms of supply come from the institute's request page. Discuss sourcing and any figure that has changed here.

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Name

The institute's English pages write "N. I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR)". Under the order of 31 December 2014 its full Russian name begins "Federal Research Center".

Losses in the hemp collection

The sources differ on what the 1990s cost the collection. Robert Clarke's report of 1998 says very few accessions were lost, though several were left with little seed. Matthew Welling and colleagues (2016), citing Clarke and others, wrote that lack of funding was thought to have compromised regrowing and led to a loss of unique diversity.

Counts

The collection held 397 accessions in 1993, 496 in 1998 and 491 on 6 November 2026. Welling and colleagues (2016) give 493 accessions of known origin for the 1998 report. Of the 491 in the database, 71 have no acquisition date.