For workers on plant taxonomy, the Siberia and Far East Herbarium in the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is one of the most important herbaria in the world. The herbarium contains collections from Siberia and the Far East including the Yenisei, Altai, Sayan, Lena, Baikal, Dahuria, Ussuri, Amur, Sakhalin, Okhotsk and Kamchatka regions.