Brezhnev, Dmitry Danilovich

Born on October 25 ( November 7 ), 1905, in the village of Pisklovo (now Kursk Oblast ). In 1933 he graduated from the Voronezh Agricultural Institute . After graduation, he first worked as the director of the Akhtuba vegetable zone station (1933-1934), then as the director of the Gribovsky vegetable selection and experimental station (1934-1936). In 1936, N.I. Vavilov was invited to graduate school at VIR , which he graduated in 1939. From 1937 to 1941 he was the head of the department of vegetable crops at the All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Industry (VIR). He participated in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). In 1950-1952, the secretary of the Leningrad regional committee of the CPSU (b), in 1952-1954 he was the head of the vegetable crops department of the All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Production, in 1954-1956 he was the second secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU, in 1956-1961 he was the first vice-president of VASKHNIL and the editor-in-chief of the journal "Bulletin of Agricultural Science", in 1961-1965 he was the head of the department of vegetable crops at the All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Production.

From 1966 to 1978 he was director of the VIR Institute named after N. I. Vavilov, at the same time in 1968-1973 he was the first vice-president of VASKHNIL, and in 1970-1982 he was the editor-in-chief of the journal Vestnik of Agricultural Science.

In VIR he studied vegetable crops, in particular, tomatoes . In this culture, he conducted fundamental research, the results of which are summarized in a large number of printed works. The scientist introduced a lot of new things into the knowledge of genetics, developmental biology and systematics of tomatoes. Under his leadership, valuable varieties of this crop were created, a system for seed production of greenhouse tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables was developed. With his direct participation, new breeding trends were developed: distant hybridization , experimental mutagenesis , the use of heterosis to increase crop yields and plant resistance to adverse factors. Published over 450 scientific papers, of which about 20 books of brochures. He has 12 patents for varieties and hybrids of tomatoes.

Editor- in -chief of the journals “Bulletin of Agricultural Science” and “Transactions in Applied Botany, Genetics and Breeding”.

He died on April 4, 1982 . He was buried in Moscow at the Kuntsevsky cemetery .

• Hero of Socialist Labor (11/05/1975)
• Stalin Prize of the third degree (1952) - for the cultivation of new varieties of vegetable crops and the promotion of their seed production in the northern zone
• Honored Scientist of the RSFSR
• two orders of Lenin (11/29/1965; 11/05/1975)
• Order of the October Revolution (8.4.1971)
• Order of the Patriotic War II degree (7/7/1944) ^[2]
• three orders of the Red Banner of Labor (12.6.1954; 28.3.1956; 22.6.1957)
• Order of the Red Star (12.9.1945) ^[3]
• Order of the Badge of Honor (10.27.1949)
• medals
• Gold medal named after I.V. Michurin
• seven medals of VDNH of the USSR .

The international authority of the breeder scientist was high, expressed in his election as an honorary doctor of the University of Budapest (1969), academician of the German Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1960), honorary member of the All-American Association of Plant Growers (1968) and the French Agricultural. Academy (1971), a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1972), the International Council on Plant Genetic Resources of the FAO (1970), the Board of EUKARPIA ^[4] (1968, president 1976-1980).

• Fertilization selectivity and urgent tasks of seed breeding // West. social plants. - 1941. - Vol. 1 . - S. 20-3 .
• The selective use of the world tomato collection // Tomsk State University Journal. social plants. - 1941. - Vol. 1 . - S. 77-78 .
• The immunity of vegetables to diseases is an important reserve for increasing the yield and its quality // Tr. in applied botany, genetics and selection. - L .: VIR, 1979.- T. 64 , no. 1 . - S. 3-9 .
• Varieties of vegetable crops with male sterility and their use in breeding and seed production // Methods of using sterile forms of vegetable crops in the production of hybrid seeds. - L. , 1964 .-- S. 3-15 .
• The problem of heterosis in vegetable growing // Combined. scientific session on probl. heterosis: Abstract. dokl .. - M. , 1966. - S. 29-36 .
• Tomatoes // Heterosis in vegetable growing. - L. , 1966. - S. 9-48 .
• Genotype and environment in the selection of greenhouse tomatoes // Materials of the meeting of the working group on tomatoes. - 1978. - S. 7-18 .
• The state of research work on tomatoes in the countries of people's democracy // Tomato culture in the countries of people's democracy. - M .: State Publishing House, 1958. - S. 7-53 .
• Tomatoes - L .: Kolos, 1964 .-- 320 p.
• Brezhnev D. D., Simonov A. A. On the method of creating maternally functionally sterile tomato lines suitable for hybridization // Dokl. All-Union. Acad. S.- x. sciences. - 1972. - Vol. 4 . - S. 2-3 .

• Craft V.N., Maltsev T.S., Kirichenko F.G. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Academician of the Agricultural Academy of Agricultural Sciences Dmitry Danilovich Brezhnev // Bulletin of Agricultural Science. - 1980. - Vol. 11 . - S. 132-133 .
• Brezhnev Dmitry Danilovich // Agricultural Encyclopedia . - 4th ed. - M. , 1969 .-- T. 1 . - S. 576-577 .
• Brezhnev Dmitry Danilovich - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (3rd edition)

• Brezhnev, Dmitry Danilovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• Brezhnev Dmitry Danilovich - Biographical Encyclopedia of the RAAS, VASKHNIL
• Brezhnev D. D. - biography on the VIR website (inaccessible link)
• Curriculum Vitae George Zhukov. Transcript of the October (1957) plenum of the CPSU Central Committee and other documents. (unspecified) . International Foundation "DEMOCRACY" (Alexander N. Yakovlev Foundation) (2001). Date of treatment July 13, 2012. Archived on October 7, 2012.