Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov

For other people with the same name, see Komarov (surname).
Vladimir Komarov
Владимир Комаров
Komarov in 1944
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
Signature

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

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g 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.

External links

The standard author abbreviation Kom. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]
Academic offices
Preceded by President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
1936–1945 		Succeeded by

Preview of references

  1. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Kom.