Lev Platonovich Simirenko-who glorified Ukraine as a surveyor, a parallel, theorist and practitioner of gardening, corresponding member of the Belgian Society of Gardeners, an honorary member of the French National Physological Society, awarded the gold medal of the French Society of Gardeners and the Great Gold Medal named after Christian Steven. His life was short, but saturated: research in the field of gardening that he was engaged in made him worldwide famous, but did not protect him from tragic death, the causes of which his biographers did not come to a consensus..