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Leonid Ivanovich Malyshev (1931-2014) is one of the leading researchers of the Siberian flora, an outstanding specialist in the field of comparative floristics and florogenetics, the author, inspirer and editor-in-chief of the Flora of Siberia project. The entire career of L.I. Malyshev is connected with the study of the Siberian flora. The materials collected by Malyshev during numerous expeditions to hard-to-reach areas of Siberia and as part of international trips in Mongolia and the USA, systematically replenished herbarium collections. In 1977, Malyshev published a review article on electronic data processing in herbarium and floristic, which served as an impetus for the creation of digital herbaria. In 2017, 40 years after the publication of this article, a Digital Herbarium began to be created at the Central Siberian Botanical Garden of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. By now, it contains over 113 thousand digitized images of herbarium sheets with the full text of labels, of which more than 4.500 samples were collected personally by Malyshev or together with other collectors. The largest number of fees is represented from the territory of Russia, as well as Mongolia, the USA, the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Republic of Tajikistan. The Digital Herbarium of the Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS contains 179 herbarium type specimens used by Malyshev in describing 43 new taxa of vascular plants. In this publication, we would like to dwell on the scientific heritage of Malyshev, his contribution to herbarium work, thanks to which the Digital Herbarium of the Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS was developed.