Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (Russian: Влади́мир Лео́нтьевич Комаро́в; 13 October [O.S. 1 October] 1869 – 5 December 1945) was a Russian 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 (of family the Apiaceae), from Uzbekistan, as Komarovia in his honour.[3]

List of selected publications

References

External links

• Media related to Vladimir L. Komarov at Wikimedia Commons

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[ru] Комаров, Владимир Леонтьевич