Since 1965, director of Donetsk Botanical Garden has worked as a doctor of biological sciences Mikhail Lukesh Riva. For more than 10 years he devoted himself to work in the park. It was Mikhail Lukesh in southeastern Ukraine that created a trend for the planting of man-made landscapes that turned into an industrial environment.
The fundamentals of the comprehensive construction of the park, its development and its formation as a leading plant institution are inextricably linked with the name of the corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Yevgeny Kondratiuk, who was the director of the park from 1970 to 1987 and directed the efforts of the team of scientists to develop the theory and practice a new field of plant science - Industrial Botany.
From 1987 to 1990, the director of the park was a correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR Viktor Taraprin.
Since 1990, the park was headed by Alexander Glukhov, MD.
In 1975 in Kryvyi Rih, a support function for the Donetsk Botanical Garden began its activity, which in 1976 turned into a department for the improvement of man-made landscapes, and in 1981 it was converted into a branch of the Donetsk Botanical Garden with the aim of establishing Krivoy Rog Botanical Garden with the aim of creating Krivoy Rog Garden Plant. Works and promotes progressive principles of nature protection. In May 1992, Kryvyi Rih Botanical Gardens became independent.
In 1983, the Donetsk Botanical Garden received a monument to the landscape art of national importance.
On July 22, 1983, by decision of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, Donetsk Botanical Garden was granted the status of a botanical garden of national importance.
For his work in nature conservation, the Donetsk Botanical Garden was awarded in 1984 the grand silver medal of UNEP.
On December 19, 2001, the Donetsk Botanical Garden Complex complex "Steppe Ukraine" was granted by decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 1709 status of national ownership of Ukraine.
