1. BELARUSIAN STATE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Forestry Faculty
DEPARTMENT OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN
AND ARCHITECTURE
(Department of LDA)
Head of the Department,
PhD (Biology), Assistant Professor,
Tamara Burganskaya

2. В Specialization “Planting of Greenery in Inhabited Places” was found in the framework of specialty “Forestry” at the Forestry Faculty of the Belarusian Technological Institute in 1968 with professor Boris Zhilkin initiative.
Since 1988, students have been admitted to the specialization “Landscape Architecture” in the specialty “Forestry and Landscape Gardening“.
In 1992, the specialization “Landscape Architecture” was assigned to the Department of Forest Protection, which was renamed into the Department of Forest Protection and Landscape Design.
In 1994, the first admission of students for the specialty “Landscape Architecture” was conducted.
The Department of Landscape Design and Architecture was formed in 2009 as a result of reorganization of the Department of Forest Protection and Landscape Design (order № 966 from г.).
Students of the first graduating class of the specialty “Landscape Architecture" during the training practice on landscape architecture in the Loshitsa manor and park complex, 1996

3. Our specialists are able at a high professional level :
Department of Landscape Design and Architecture carries out the training of specialists of the highest qualification in the specialty “Landscape Architecture” Specializations: «Construction and Maintenance of Landscape Structures»
Our specialists are able at a high professional level :
to develop landscape design projects;
to reconstruct or restore monuments of landscape art;
to decorate the interior of the office, production or living spaces;
to maintain the viability and increase the sustainability of green plantations in difficult environment, to carry out revegetation of disturbed landscapes;
to organize the cultivation of ornamental wood and flower plants in the open and protected ground
The qualification “Landscape Architecture Engineer” provides the graduates with the possibility to work as landscape designers, heads of improvement afforestation and greenery departments, engineers, specialists in improvement activities, agronomists in various property management organizations, lecturers of specialized disciplines (subjects) at colleges and higher schools, etc.

4. Area of application of professional knowledge
of a specialist in landscape architecture
design institutes and bureaus;
planting of greenery organizations of regional, municipal or local importance;
landscaping agencies;
forestry;
enterprises of housing and communal services;
historical park complexes;
floricultural and plant growing enterprises and nurseries;
botanical gardens;
educational institutions (colleges, technical schools, lyceums, universities);
construction organizations;
research organizations and institutes;
management field.

5. Subjects 29 SUBJECTS ARE ASSIGNED TO THE DEPARTMENT
THEY ARE TOUGHT AT 3 FACULTIES OF BSTU (Forestry, Forestry Engineering and Wood Technology, Extramural)
4 SPECIALITIES OF GRADUATE PROGRAMME:
1-75 02 01 “Landscape Architecture”
(specialization 1-75 02 01 02 ”Construction and Maintenance of Landscape Structures») :
Descriptive Geometry and Architectural Graphics
Territorial Landscaping
Decorative Dendrology
Small Garden Design
Floriculture
Basics of Fruit and Vegetable Production
Garden Architectural Forms
Ornamental Plants Nurseries
Standarts in Landscape Construction
Construction and Maintenance of Landscape Structures
Computer Technology in Landscape Design
Floral Design
History and Theory of Landscape Art
Urban Open Spaces Systems
1-75 01 01 “Forestry” : Basics of Garden Maintenance  02 02 “Tourism and Nature Management” : Landscape Planning and Organization of Territories for Ecological Tourism
1-46 01 02 “Technology of Wood Working Production” (с specialization 1-46 01 02 02 “Technology and Design of Furniture”) : Drawing and Perspective

6. 2 SPECIALITIES OF MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAMME:
Учебные дисциплины
2 SPECIALITIES OF MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAMME:
1-75 80 05 «Landscaping of Residential Areas» (scientific master’s studies):
Innovative Technologies in Landscape Architecture and Garden Maintenance
Perspective Directions of Landscape Design and Construction
Modern Methods of Plant Use in Landscape Architecture and Design
Modern Technology in Ornamental Horticulture
1-75 81 01 “Landscape Design and Construction” (practical master’s studies):
Lawns and Alternative Cover in Landscape Construction
Intensive Management of the Sector of Gardening and Ornamental Plant Growing
Information Technology in Landscape Design and Construction
Perspective Directions of Landscape Architecture and Design
Ornamental Design of Open Spaces and Interiors
Scientific Restoration and Reconstruction of Landscape Structures

7. Main educational publications of the Department’s teaching stuff in 2012-2017

8. Descriptive Geometry and Architectural Graphics room

9. Decorative plant cultivation laboratory

10. The BSTU Botanical Garden is the main base of the department for doing practical and research work by students of the speciality “Landscape Architecture”

11. The BSTU Botanical Garden

12. The BSTU Botanical Garden

13. Educational practical work
The department conducts educational practical work in 7 disciplines for students of 2 specialties :
1-75 02 01 “Landscape Architecture” – Floriculture, Decorative Dendrology, Ornamental Plants Nurseries, Landscape Art, Landscape Architecture, Construction and Maintenance of Landscape Structures .
1-89 02 02 “Tourism and Nature Management” – Complex Accomplishment of Territories for Ecological Tourism.
During the practice period in the Forestry Experimental Station in Negoreloe, the students of the specialty “Landscape Architecture” perform all kinds of works on creating and maintaining the planting of ornamental plants in the parterre part of the botanical garden

14. Scientific research work at the department is conducted
in the following main areas :
– development of perspective range and technologies for growing of ornamental floral and woody plants;
– scientific substantiation and improvement of methods and means of landscape organization of populated areas, criteria for assessing the state of green plantations;
– landscape analysis of territories and organization of works on the maintenance of landscaping objects.

15. The main results of research projects conducted during 2012–2017:
–  Perspective methods of gardening and revitalization of industrial territories in the Republic of Belarus
(O.M. Berezko);
– Decorative eco gardening (S.A. Prahodski);
– Recommendations on perspective methods of creating and using topiary forms of deciduous shrubs in the planting of greenery in the Republic of Belarus (N.A. Makoznak);
– Technological regulations on the composition of substrates and the feeding of flowers of single-season and long-term use in flower gardens (T.M. Burganskaya, V.G. Rusalenko);
– Database of flower-ornamental plants that are promising for use in greenery of the category "Center“ objects with various functional purposes in Minsk (T.M. Burganskaya);
– Recommendations on the composition and coloristic solution of the flower-decorative design of the landscaping objects in the central part of Minsk (N.A. Makoznak, O.M. Berezko, A.D. Telesh);
– Recommendations on landscaping of school territories taking into account modern trends in landscape architecture and the specifics of an educational institution (T.M. Burganskaya, L.N. Grigortsevich, N.A. Makoznak, L.S. Pashkevich, S.A. Prachodski, I.K. Zelvovich);
–  Quality tests of student preparation for design activities (electronic version) (M.V. Sidorenko, G.A. Volchenkova).

16. The main research results
Title
PERSPECTIVE METHODS OF GARDENING AND REVITALIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL TERRITORIES
IN THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS
Description
The purpose of the work is to identify promising methods of planting greenery of industrial territories, to identify the range of woody-shrub and grassy plants suitable for planting greenery of industrial and contaminated areas with various types of pollution; Development of general recommendations on the application of perspective gardening methods for various functional zones of industrial enterprises, development of schemes for technical and protective planting of industrial and adjacent areas
To date, the development of gardening methods, most appropriate to the complex environmental conditions of industrial zones of industrial enterprises, has been developed, techniques have been developed corresponding to recreational and household areas, and a number of options have been proposed for the decorative design of various sections of the territory
Advantages
Expansion of the assortment of plants adapted to the conditions of Belarus, resistant to industrial pollution, expansion of borders and methods of their use.
Application areas
Social effect
Cost effectiveness
Analogues are absent in the Republic of Belarus
Cooperation proposals
Contract
Contacts
Assoc. professor Berezko O.M., head of the department Burhanskaya T.M.
phone ,

17. The main research results
Title
DEVELOPMENT OF A DESIGN PROJECT FOR LANDSCAPE ORGANIZATION OF THE “BORISOV EXPERIMENTAL FORESTRY“ TERRITORY
Description
The aim of the work was to develop a design concept for the landscape organization of the territory of the Borisov Experimental Forestry office.
Reconnaissance inspections were carried out on the territory of the design object, an inventory of existing plants was carried out.
Three variants of draft proposals for landscape organization of the forestry office were developed: on the basis of the option chosen by the customer, a master plan, a dendrological plan and a landing drawing were developed.
Application areas
Social effect
Technology readiness level
The project was introduced into the Borisov Experimental Forestry
Cooperation proposals
Contract
Contacts
Assoc. professor Berezko O.M., head of the department Burhanskaya T.M.
phone ,

18. The main research results
Title
DECORATIVE ECO GARDENING
Description
The technology makes it possible to obtain high-quality planting material of various species and varieties of woody and herbaceous plants with a long decorative period
Advantages
Expansion of the range of ornamental plants adapted to Belarusand middle band of the CIS(including native species), widening the boundaries and methods of their usage, increasing the greening of cities, improving the ecological situation in settlements
Application areas
Obtaining planting material of specific and ecologically valuable ornamental woody and herbaceous plants for landscaping purposes
Technology readiness level
BSTU Botanical garden
Cost effectiveness
Native plant species in the central CIS are not grown enough
Estimated cost
Depends on the volume of implementation
Cooperation proposals
Contract
Contacts
Assoc. professor Prahodski S.A., head of the department Burhanskaya T.M.
Phone ,

19. OF FLOWERS OF SINGLE-SEASON AND LONG-TERM USE IN FLOWER GARDENS
Title
TECHNOLOGICAL REGULATIONS ON THE COMPOSITION OF SUBSTRATES AND THE FEEDING
OF FLOWERS OF SINGLE-SEASON AND LONG-TERM USE IN FLOWER GARDENS
Description
The composition of the substrate for cultivation of open-ground flowers at the green spaces of various functional purposes is proposed, recommendations are given on the fertilization of annual, biennial and perennial flowers with mineral fertilizers that take into account the biological characteristics of plants and the content of the basic elements of mineral nutrition in the substrate
Advantages
The development takes into account the peculiarities of mineral nutrition of flower-ornamental plants, is focused on the assortment of species and varieties of open-ground flowers, promising for the formation of flower-decorative compositions on the territory of Belarus
Application areas
Landscape architecture and design (development of architectural and landscape projects); communal services and garden and park construction (planting of greenery and territory accomplishment, care of green spaces)
Technology readiness level
Applied in production (2 acts of implementation) and the educational process
Cost effectiveness
The development is aimed at improving the quality of life and aesthetic improvement of the human environment;
it has a predominantly social effect
Contract
Cooperation proposals
Implementation of development in regions with similar natural and climatic conditions; conducting joint research with foreign partners
Contacts
Burganskaya T.M.
Department of Landscape Design and Architecture, Belarusian State Technological University, Sverdlova str., 13а, Minsk, Belarus; tel.: +37517 327 15 21, fax: +37517 327 62 17,

20. Title
RECOMMENDATIONS ON PERSPECTIVE METHODS OF CREATING AND USING TOPIARY FORMS OF DECIDUOUS SHRUBS IN THE PLANTING OF GREENERY IN THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS
Description
The development includes information on common approaches to the formation of sheared compositions of deciduous shrubs in modern landscape architecture and design, an assortment of ornamental deciduous shrubs to create topiary plant forms in the Republic of Belarus, and promising methods for creating and using topiary forms of deciduous shrubs in the landscaping of the Republic of Belarus.
Advantages
The development takes into account the specifics of the natural and climatic conditions of the Republic of Belarus, is focused on the assortment of species and decorative forms of deciduous shrubs most promising for the formation of topiary compositions on the territory of Belarus.
Application areas
Landscape architecture and design (development of architectural and landscape projects); communal services and garden and park construction (planting of greenery and territory accomplishment, care of green spaces).
Technology readiness level
Applied in production (1 act of implementation) and the educational process
Cost effectiveness
The development is aimed at improving the quality of life and aesthetic improvement of the human environment;
it has a predominantly social effect
Contract
Cooperation proposals
Implementation of development in regions with similar natural and climatic conditions; conducting joint research with foreign partners
Contacts
Burganskaya T.M., Makoznak N.A.
Department of Landscape Design and Architecture, Belarusian State Technological University, Sverdlova str., 13а, Minsk, Belarus; tel.: +37517 327 15 21, fax: +37517 327 62 17,

21. Use of research results in 2012–2017
Year
Applied results
production
educational process
2012 4 14
2013 5 17
2014 9 10
2015 23 15
2016 25
2017 22
Total 89
101

22. Number of publications (pieces)
Scientific publications of the Department’s teaching stuff in 2012–2017
* ( ) – including publications in English
Kind of publication
Number of publications (pieces)
Total,
pieces
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
Article
total 12 15 16 8 14 80
including abroad editions – 3 1
5(1)* 6
18(1)*
Proceedings of the conferences 9 5 7 49
4(1)*
37(1)*
Abstract
12/1,2 11 20 17 18 93 - 2
Publications, indexing in the Scopus, Web of Science Databases
Total 33 35 41 37 39
222 10 57

23. worked on planned budget and contract research
Research work of students
The number of students,
worked on planned budget and contract research

24. Research work of students
Number of scientific works and displays of students,
received awards at competitions and exhibitions

25. Team-work at the Branch Scientific Technical Programme “Introduction and Planting of Greenery” ( )
Action as opponents to the dissertations, carried out at the base of the CBG of NAS of Belarus
Review of educational and scientific editions, publications, research returns
Team-work consisting of State Examining Board in the BSTU and the Artistic Council of the CBG of NAS of Belarus
Conducting of educational and practical trainings on the basis the CBG of NAS of Belarus, UE “Minskzelenstroy” and other kind of work.
EDUCATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL CENTRE “GREEN CONSTRUCTION” (DEPARTMENT OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE, CENTRAL BOTANICAL GARDEN OF NAS OF BELARUS, PCUE “MINSKZELENSTROY”)

26. In 2012, on the bases of the Department of Landscape Design and Architecture Landscape Design Workshop was found, normative base for its activities was developed. The aim of the Landscape Design Workshop is to carry out research, designed, advisory and educational work in the field of landscape design and architecture on principles of self-financing.

27. Landscape Design Workshop

28. Landscape Design Workshop

29. Landscape Design Workshop

30. Department of Landscape Design and Architecture online (at Facebook)
Since 2012 the Department is online
More then 650 professional participants of the group (students and graduates of the department, specialists in the field of landscape design and architecture)
Weekly renewal
Permanent connection with profile organizations and specialists in the field of landscape design and architecture