Vanin, Alexander Ivanovich

A.I. Vanin was born on November 28, 1892 in a village of a peasant family in the village of Tokarevo, Kasimovsky district, Ryazan province (now Kasimovsky district, Ryazan region ).

In 1904 he graduated from the parish school and on August 13 entered the seven-year technical school in Kasimov . In 1906, at the age of 14, he transferred diphtheria with severe complications to the kidneys and heart. After graduating from college on May 27, 1911, in September of the same year he entered the St. Petersburg Forest Institute . At the institute, he performed his thesis simultaneously with his elder brother Stepan in the Kasimov forestry, under the guidance of the classic Russian forestry G.F. Morozov . The brothers graduated from the Forest Institute in November 1915 and both received the rank of scientist arborist of the 1st category.

During the First World War, A.I. Vanin was not in military service for health reasons, but since 1916 he was in the civil service at the Petrograd Electrotechnical Plant, owned by the military engineering department . Here Alexander Ivanovich worked as a drafting designer of the membrane workshop, and then as a senior calculator for preliminary accounting of materials and labor.

On November 1, 1917 he was appointed assistant forester in the Penza - Simbirsk administration of agriculture and state property and sent to the Kerensky forestry of the Penza province .

March 22, 1918 sent to the Lenin forestry (formerly Romanovskoye) of the Lipetsk district of the Tambov province , where he also worked as an assistant forester and began to teach at the Romanovsk forest school (since 1924 - Leninsky forest technical school). On January 1, 1932, the technical school was merged with the Khrenovsky Forestry College (the village of Khrenovoye, Bobrovsky District, Voronezh Region). Before the retirement of August 12, 1957, A.I. Vanin taught at the Khrenovsk technical school, while simultaneously conducting scientific work on the study of the Khrenovsky boron . After retiring, he continued to teach at the technical school and conduct community service.

Alexander Ivanovich Vanin is known for his research on the flora of the surroundings of Lipetsk and the study of the Khrenovsky pine forest - a natural-artificial pine massif, one of the most southern in Russia. The materials were published in the journal Izvestia of the Lipetsk Society for the Study of the Local Territory. By ministerial order, he wrote The Key to Trees and Shrubs and a textbook on dendrology for forestry technical schools. The Identifier includes 187 species, there are tables for determining conifers and deciduous species by leaves, buds, cones, fruits and seeds, and seedlings, and the morphological characteristics of the species and information on geographical distribution are also given.

In the forest technical school A.I. Vanin taught botany and special subjects - forestry , forestry , taxation , dendrology, and forest protection . He was also engaged in public work, was a member and chairman of the lecture bureau of the Knowledge Society.

During World War II, students of the technical school were engaged in logging for deliveries to the front, while organizing work in such a way as to preserve the uniqueness of Khrenovsky boron. In 1948-1957, he directed the creation of the arboretum at the Khrenovsky Forestry College. Alexander Ivanovich himself chose a plot of 3.5 hectares for him and made a plan. In total, about 180 plant species were planted in the arboretum, including Far Eastern and North American exotics.

• Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• Badge "To the Excellent Master of Forestry Protection under the SNKhSSSR."
• Badge "To the Excellence in Socialist Agricultural Competition of the Ministry of Agriculture of the USSR."
• Sign "For the conservation and augmentation of the forest wealth of the RSFSR."
• Medal "For Valiant Labor to Commemorate the Centenary of the Birth of V.I. Lenin . "

Father - Ivan Stepanovich Vanin, a peasant in the village of Tokareva, a reserve clerk , his mother is from the village of Erakhtur , a peasant woman, a worker in peat extraction in Orekhovo-Zuev .

Brothers

• Dmitry Ivanovich Vanin (February 5, 1887 - November 1950) was born in Yarakhtur, graduated from Tokarev school and the seven-year school in Kasimov (in 1907), and from 1909-1912 he was a student at the St. Petersburg Forest Institute. Then he worked as an assistant forester and forestry teacher in Velsk . Member of the First World War. Since 1920 - a forester, teacher and head of the Khrenovo Forestry School (since 1924 - a technical school).
• Stepan Ivanovich Vanin (1891-1951) - scientist and teacher, doctor of agricultural sciences, professor, specialist in forest phytopathology and wood science. He taught at the Voronezh Agricultural Institute and the Leningrad Forest Institute / Forestry Academy.
• Grigory Ivanovich Vanin is a forestry worker in the Moscow region .
• Ivan Ivanovich Vanin (1898-1973) - scientist, candidate of agricultural sciences, mycologist and phytopathologist . He studied plant immunity .

• Wild medicinal plants in the vicinity of Lipetsk // Bulletin of the Lipetsk Society for the Study of the Local Territory. - 1921.
• Soil and botanical examination of the Khrenovsky forestry. - 1947.
• Key to Trees and Shrubs: A manual for forestry technical schools. - M., L .: Goslesbumizdat, 1956 .-- 212 p.
  • Reprinted in 1967, Forest Industry Publishing House
• Dendrology: Textbook for technical schools of forestry. - M., L .: Goslesbumizdat, 1960 .-- 248 p. - 10,000 copies.
• List of plants of the Khrenovsky pine forest of the Voronezh region with brief indications of their distribution and use. - 1965.
• Trees and shrubs of our forests // Economics and forestry organization / as part of a team of authors. - "Forest industry", 1969.
• Rare herbaceous and shrubby plants - natural monuments in the Khrenovsky Bor // Monuments of nature of the Voronezh region / ed. M.N. Grishchenko. - Voronezh: Central Black Earth Book Publishing House, 1970.

• Klimochkina Elena. Alexander Ivanovich Vanin (neopr.) . The site of the village of Tokareva . Date of treatment November 23, 2011. Archived May 17, 2012.
• Klimochkina Elena. Vanins family (neopr.) . The site of the village of Tokareva . Date of treatment November 23, 2011. Archived May 17, 2012.