Edelstein, Vitaly Ivanovich

Vitaly Ivanovich Edelstein
Vitaly Ivanovich Edelstein
Date of Birth	April 17 (29), 1881
Place of Birth	Kazan , ; Russian empire
Date of death	August 1, 1965 (84 years old)
Place of death	Moscow , RSFSR , USSR
A country	Russian Empire → the USSR
Scientific field	vegetable growing
Alma mater	Petersburg Forest Institute

Vitaliy Ivanovich Edelstein ( April 17 (29), 1881 , Kazan - August 1, 1965 , Moscow ) - Soviet scientist, vegetable grower , honorary member of the All-Union Agricultural Institute (1956), Hero of Socialist Labor (1961).

Biography

Edelstein’s grave at Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow

In 1902, after graduating from the St. Petersburg Forest Institute , until 1907 he worked in it at the Department of Botany .

In 1907-1913 he was a teacher at the Uman Agricultural School , then the head of the Tula Garden and Garden Station. Since 1916 - professor at the Department of Gardening and Horticulture at the Moscow Agricultural Institute (now the Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Agricultural Academy named after K.A. Timiryazev ). In 1918, a garden and garden station was founded at the Moscow Agricultural Institute, the management of which was entrusted to the initiator of its organization, V. I. Edelstein ^[1] .

He took an active part in organizing the All-Russian Research Institute of Vegetable Production (inaccessible link) (VNIIO), where he worked as deputy director for science.

In 1955 he signed the " Letter of Three Hundred ."

His students headed the departments of vegetable growing and horticulture in universities of the country - M.V. Alekseev ( VSHIZO ), M.A. Panov, G.I. Tarakanov (Moscow Agricultural Academy named after K.A. Timiryazev), V. Ya. Borisov (Crimean Agricultural Institute ), A. N. Paponov (Perm Agricultural Institute), L. A. Nikonov (Velikiye Luki Agricultural Institute), and others. He trained thousands of agronomists and vegetable growers.

The author of more than 500 works on the biology of vegetable plants , the technology of their cultivation, methods of producing seedlings.

For the textbook Vegetable Growing (1944), he was awarded the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1946).

Awards and titles

Hero of Socialist Labor (05/05/1961)
3 Orders of Lenin (10/16/1951; 05/14/1956; 05/05/1961)
Order of the Badge of Honor (12/06/1940)
medal "For Labor Valor" (12/25/1952)
other medals

He was an honorary academician of VASKHNIL , an honorary doctor of the University. Humboldt in Germany, Honorary Doctor of the Institute of Horticulture in Budapest (Hungary).

Notes

↑ UC "Vegetable Station named after V. I. Edelstein" (neopr.) (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment January 30, 2012. Archived December 1, 2010.

Bibliography

New in gardening. - M. - L., 1931;
Individual garden. 8th ed. - M., 1956.

Literature

Vitaly Ivanovich Edelstein. - M., 1953. - (Scientists of the Timiryazev Academy).
Bibliographic index of the works of Vitaly Ivanovich Edelstein / [Comp. Z. V. Satonkina, A. M. Osadchieva]. - M .: TSHA, 1981. - 33 p. Portr.

Links

Edelstein, Vitaly Ivanovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
Edelstein Vitaliy Ivanovich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.

[1] UC "Vegetable Station named after V. I. Edelstein" (neopr.) (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment January 30, 2012. Archived December 1, 2010.