Unknown girl around 1965 at the weather station in the Sofronka Arboretum, which included the original louvered weather box

Great-grandfather of Karel Kaňák's father, professional piper Hynek Kaňák, in Augustin Němejc's painting from 1902

Tree nursery in Sofronka around 1959 (Jan Kaňák's father, Karel Kaňák, used to sleep in the white box on the left)

Jan Kaňák extracting cone seeds for germination in the laboratory of the Sofronka Arboretum in 1981

An older aerial view of Sofronka by a man who fled abroad during the communist regime

Dad Karel Kaňák (right) during an excursion in the Sofronka Arboretum probably in 1994

Karel and Jan Kaňák at the seminar marking the 35th anniversary of the establishment of the VÚLHM research facility at Sofronka.

Jan Kaňák and others at the ceremonial opening of the educational trail about pine trees in 2010.

Karel Kaňák, father of Jan Kaňák and founder of the Sofronka Arboretum, in 1970

Malcolm Anthony Nobs and father Karel Kaňák in the Sofronka Arboretum in 1966

Tree nursery in Šofronka 1998

Forest nursery in Sofronka probably in 1964

Jan Kaňák in 2023

Mirko Vanecek in 2020

Mirko Vanecek in 2020

Mirko Vaněček at the International Geological Congress in Moscow around 1980

Mirko Vaněček (right) during his stay at his uncle's mill, June 1943

Mirko Vaněček (right) during his stay at his uncle's mill, June 1943

Dad Mirko Vaněček in military uniform around 1918

Mirko Vaněček (left) during his stay at his uncle's mill, June 1943

Graduation photograph of Mirko Vaněček, around 1946

The Vaněček family just before World War II

Mirko Vanecek (left) in Iraq, early 1970s

Mirko Vaněček's mother around 1918

Mirko Vaněček (centre) during his stay at his uncle's mill, June 1943