Pavlovsk experimental station located at the outskirts of St. Petersburg which contains more than 70 hectares of land planted with 5,500 different varieties of apples, pears, cherries, and numerous berry species - most of which occur nowhere else on Earth and were developed over hundreds of years will be no more and will be replaced by single-family housings if the rulings of the supreme court come true. In a verdict given on August 11 by Russia's Supreme Arbitration Court ruled that the land occupied by the plant bank may be transferred to the Russian Housing Development Foundation, which is responsible to build housings and other infrastructures to realize the development and growth of St. Petersburg.
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