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Entries / Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences


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KOMAROV BOTANICAL INSTITUTE of the Russian Academy of Sciences, situated at 2 Professora Popova Street, one of the leading botanical centres in the world. It was founded in 1931 on the basis of the Main Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum of the Academy of Sciences, which have the status of institute departments. The institute was named after V. L. Komarov in 1940. Its major research areas include plant taxonomy, floristic plant geography and cartography, geobotany, phytocoenology, paleobotany, etc. The institute's herbarium has over six million leaves including plant samples from pharaoh tombs, plants collected under Peter the Great, and nearly all species of flora found in Russia and various regions of the Earth. The library includes over 550,000 volumes. The institute engaged in new activities during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 such as constructing military geobotanical maps, developing techniques for interpreting aerial photographs of tundra, forests, and swamps, developing methods for collecting and processing sphagnous moss used as antiseptic dressing, fir needles used to make vitamin tea, etc. Institute buildings suffered from artillery bombardments, 80 % of the greenhouse collection was destroyed. There is a memorial plaque erected in the assembly hall in memory of the institute members who fell during the Great Patriotic War. Many prominent botanists worked at the institute in various years including V. L. Komarov, N. I. Kuznetsov, and A. A. Elenkin. The institute publishes Proceedings, annuals, and serials such as the List of Herbarium Plants of Russia and Contiguous Countries, Plants of Central Asia, and Flora of Eastern Europe published since 1898, 1963, and 1974, respectively.

Reference: От Аптекарского огорода до Ботанического института: Очерки по истории Ботанич. ин-та АН СССР. М.; Л., 1957.

O. N. Ansberg.

Addresses
Professora Popova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 2

Bibliographies
От Аптекарского огорода до Ботанического института: Очерки по истории Ботан. ин-та АН СССР. М.; Л., 1957

The subject Index
Botanical Museum


Botanic Garden

BOTANIC GARDEN (2 Professora Popova Street) originates from the Apothecary Garden (established by order of Tsar Peter the Great). Its overall area was 22.9 ha including 2.5 ha of conservatories and buildings, 16

Botanical Museum

BOTANICAL MUSEUM, located at 2 Professora Popova Street, is the only botanical museum in the country. The museum dates back to the Botanical Museum of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences established in 1823 and officially opened in 1835

Komarov V.L., (1869-1945), botanist

KOMAROV Vladimir Leontyevich (1869, St. Petersburg - 1945), botanist and geographer, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1920), Vice-President (1930-36) and President (1936-45) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR

Petrogradsky District

PETROGRADSKY DISTRICT, an administrative and territorial unit of St. Petersburg, with its administration located at 19 Bolshaya Monetnaya Street. The district was formed in 1917, and in 1936 the Primorsky District was separated from its territory

Russian Academy of Sciences

RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, the highest scientific institution in Russia. It was founded in St. Petersburg after Emperor Peter the Great's project for the academy was approved by the Senate on 28 January 1724