Dmitry Ivanovich Litvinov (russian: Дмитрий Иванович Литвинов; – 5 July 1929) was a Russian

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responsible for the naming of a large variety of

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and

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n plants. He is known as the author of the concept of

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for the plants growing on

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and

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slopes of the banks of rivers in the European part of Russia. Together with Vasily Zinger, he discovered the natural monument

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( river Don) inhabited by

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plants. He graduated from the Imperial Moscow Technical School in 1879, receiving the degree of a construction mechanic specialist. Interested in

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, in 1898 he quit his job as a teacher at a technical school and became a curator and later a senior botanist at the Botanical Museum of the Academy of Sciences, where he worked until the end of his life. Alternative spelling of the names: Dimitri Ivanovitch Litvinov (in French); Dmitrij Iwanowitsch Litwinow (in German).Author Details

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References

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- Litvinov Dmitry Ivanovich (1854-1929) 19th-century botanists from the Russian Empire 1855 births 1929 deaths 20th-century Russian botanists {{Russia-botanist-stub