Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (russian: Влади́мир Лео́нтьевич Комаро́в; – 5 December 1945) was a Russian and Soviet

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

Biography

Komarov was born in 1869. He was a graduate of

St. Petersburg University Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU; russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter t ...

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 The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

in 1914 and its full member in 1920. He served as President of the

Academy of Sciences of the USSR The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991, uniting the country's leading scientists, subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (until 1946 ...

in 1936–1945. He was a deputy at the

Supreme Soviet The Supreme Soviet (russian: Верховный Совет, Verkhovny Sovet, Supreme Council) was the common name for the legislative bodies (parliaments) of the Soviet socialist republics (SSR) in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USS ...

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 The Hero of Socialist Labour (russian: links=no, Герой Социалистического Труда, Geroy Sotsialisticheskogo Truda) was an honorific title in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries from 1938 to 1991. It repre ...

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 Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants t ...

s (in the family

Apiaceae Apiaceae or Umbelliferae is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus '' Apium'' and commonly known as the celery, carrot or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers. It is the 16th-largest family of flowering plan ...

), from

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked co ...

, as ''Komarovia'' in his honour (a name since replaced by ''

Komaroviopsis ''Komaroviopsis'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae. It contains only one species, ''Komaroviopsis anisoptera'', native to Uzbekistan in Central Asia. Taxonomy The genus was first described in 1939, along w ...

'').

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 Botanists with author abbreviations Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925) Presidents of the USSR Academy of Sciences Foreign Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 20th-century Russian botanists Soviet botanists Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery Members of the Supreme Soviet of Russia Heroes of Socialist Labour Recipients of the USSR State Prize {{Russia-botanist-stub