Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov
Влади́мир Лео́нтьевич Комаро́в
Born(1869-10-13)October 13, 1869
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
DiedDecember 5, 1945(1945-12-05) (aged 76)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
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Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (Russian: Влади́мир Лео́нтьевич Комаро́в; 13 October [O.S. 1 October] 1869 – 5 December 1945) was a Russian and Soviet botanist.

Biography

Komarov was born in 1869.[1] He was a graduate of St. Petersburg University where he received a degree in botany in 1894.[1] He worked as a professor at the university in the period 1898–1934.[1]

Until his death in 1945, he was senior editor of the Flora SSSR (Flora of the U.S.S.R.), in full comprising 30 volumes published between 1934 and 1960.[2] He was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1914 and its full member in 1920.[1] He served as President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1936–1945.[1] He was a deputy at the Supreme Soviet from 1938 to 1945.[1]

Awards and legacy

Komarov was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941 and 1942 and the Hero of Socialist Labour in 1943.[1]

The Komarov Botanical Institute and its associated Komarov Botanical Garden in Saint Petersburg are named after him.

In 1939, botanist Evgenii (Yevgeni, Eugeny) Petrovich Korovin (1891-1963), published a genus of flowering plants (in the family Apiaceae), from Uzbekistan, as Komarovia in his honour (a name since replaced by Komaroviopsis).[3]

The settlement Komarovo, Saint Petersburg is named after him.

List of selected publications

  • Coniferae of Manchuria. Trudy Imp. S.Peterburgsk. Obsc. 32: 230-241 (1902).
  • De Gymnospermis nonnullis Asiaticis I, II. Bot. Mater. Gerb. Glavn. Bot. Sada RSFSR 4: 177–181, 5: 25-32 (1923–1924).
  • Florae peninsulae Kamtschatka (1927).
  • Komarov, V. L., ed. (1934–1960). Flora of the U.S.S.R. 30 vols. Leningrad: Botanicheskii institut akademii nauk SSSR.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Nikolai Krementsov (1996). Stalinist Science. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 300. doi:10.1515/9781400822140. ISBN 978-0691028774.
  2. ↑ Komarov 1934–1960.
  3. ↑ "Komarovia Korovin". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
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