Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (russian: Влади́мир Лео́нтьевич Комаро́в; – 5 December 1945) was a Russian and Soviet
botanist
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.
Biography
Komarov was born in 1869.
He was a graduate of
St. Petersburg University
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where he received a degree in botany in 1894.
[ He worked as a professor at the university in the period 1898–1934.][
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. He was elected a corresponding member of the ]Russian Academy of Sciences
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in 1914 and its full member in 1920.[ He served as President of the ]Academy of Sciences of the USSR
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in 1936–1945.[ He was a deputy at the ]Supreme Soviet
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from 1938 to 1945.[
]
Awards and legacy
Komarov was awarded the Stalin Prize Stalin Prize may refer to:
* The State Stalin Prize in science and engineering and in arts, awarded 1941 to 1954, later known as the USSR State Prize
The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, ...
in 1941 and 1942 and the Hero of Socialist Labour
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in 1943.[
The ]Komarov Botanical Institute The Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (russian: Ботанический институт им. В.Л.Комарова РАН) is a leading botanical institution in Russia, It is located on Aptekarsky Island in St. Pete ...
and its associated Komarov Botanical Garden in Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
are named after him.
In 1939, botanist Evgenii (Yevgeni, Eugeny) Petrovich Korovin (1891-1963), published a genus of flowering plant
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s (in the family Apiaceae
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), from Uzbekistan
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, as ''Komarovia'' in his honour (a name since replaced by '' Komaroviopsis'').
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).
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1869 births
1945 deaths
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
People from Saint Petersburg Governorate
Botanists active in Siberia
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Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
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Presidents of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Foreign Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
20th-century Russian botanists
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Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery
Members of the Supreme Soviet of Russia
Heroes of Socialist Labour
Recipients of the USSR State Prize
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