Baranov, Pavel Alexandrovich

Pavel Baranov was born in Moscow on July 16 (28), 1892 , studied at the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow University (from the end of 1917 - “Moscow State University”) , graduated from it in 1917 , then a teacher at the Moscow gymnasium, high school ( 1917 - 1920 ), Boundary Institute of the People's Commissar of Education of the RSFSR in Moscow ( 1918 - 1920 ) ^{[1] [2]} .

From 1920 to 1944 he worked at the Central Asian State University (SAGU) (until 1923 - Turkestan State University, TurkSU), stood at the origins of this university, director of the Botanical Institute of SAGU (1921-1930), director of the Fundamental Library of SAGU ( 1928 - 1944 ) . Since 1928 - Professor of the Department of Plant Morphology and Anatomy of SAGU. From 1930 to 1938 he was the head of the Cytological and Anatomical Laboratory of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Cotton Production, the director of the Central Asian Department of the All-Union Institute of Plant Growing (1934-1935) ^{[1] [2] [3]} .

Baranov led many botanical expeditions in Central Asia . The first of them is an expedition to the Talas Alatau in 1921 , the western Tien Shan ( 1923 - 1927 ); Darvaz ( 1927 ); Kopetdag ( 1928 - 1929 ); led the Pamir expedition ( 1933 - 1943 ) - is one of the organizers of the Pamir Biological Station ("the organizer and in 1937 - 1940 - Director of the Pamir Biological Station" ^[3] ) and the Pamir Botanical Garden in Khorog ^[4] . In 1940, he was appointed director of the Botanical Institute of the Uzbek Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Tashkent ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} .

During World War II, Baranov was engaged in the study of sugar beets . On September 29, 1943, he was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Since 1944, Baranov worked as deputy director of the Moscow Botanical Garden of the USSR Academy of Sciences, deputy director for science and head of the Laboratory of Plant Morphology and Anatomy of the Main Botanical Garden of the USSR Academy of Sciences ( 1945 - 1952 ), at the same time he teaches from 1948 to 1952 - professor, head of the Moscow Botany Department from the Lenin Pedagogical Institute , from 1952 to 1962 he worked as the director of the V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences ^{[1] [2] [3]} .

In 1949, he was elected chairman of the Presidium of the Moldavian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences ^[1] .

He is the author of more than 150 scientific papers on the problems of ontogenesis and plant shaping, a comprehensive botanical study of cotton, grapes, agricultural development of highland territories, and the history of botany, and participated in the creation of the fundamental monograph Flora of the USSR ^[3] .

Pavel Aleksandrovich Baranov died on May 17, 1962 after a short illness at the age of 70 in Leningrad , and was buried in the Serafimovsky cemetery ^{[1] [2] [3]} .

Member of scientific committees, bureaus and participation in international congresses.

• participant of the VII International Botanical Congress in Sweden ( 1950 ),
• participant of the VIII Congress in France ( 1954 ),
• Member of the Bureau of the Department of Biological Sciences, USSR Academy of Sciences ( 1953 - 1955 ).
• Member of the Presidium of the National Committee of Soviet Biologists ( 1958 ) ^{[1] [3]} .

Community Activities

• Deputy of the Leningrad City Council of Workers' Deputies from 1953 to 1955 ^[one]

• Essay on the vegetation of Chimgan . 1924
• To the knowledge of vegetation mountain scree . 1925
• Darvaz and its cultivated vegetation . 1928, compat. with I. A. Raikova
• Viticulture of Nuhuria. Experience in district ampelography . 1930, compat. with I. A. Raikova and M. G. Popov
• Wild grapes of Central Asia . 1955
• History of plant embryology . 1955 ^[1]

• Baranov P. A. In tropical Africa: Notes of a botanist / Otv. ed. B. K. Shishkin ; USSR Academy of Sciences . Botanical Institute. V. L. Komarova . - M .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1956. - 276 p. - 16,000 copies.
• Baranov P. A. In far Africa / Literary edition of M. E. Ivin ; drawings by S. N. Spitsin ; drawings of plants G.V. Arkadyev ; maps of A. Alexandrov. - L .: Detgiz , 1957. - 160 p. - 30,000 copies.

• Astragalus baranovii Popov ex Blagov. , 1925
• Salsola baranovii Iljin , 1936 ^[3] .

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1944),
• Order of the Red Star (1945),
• Order of Lenin (1953),
• Medals of the Soviet Union ,
• "Honored Worker of Science of the Uzbek SSR" (1944) ^{[1] [2] [3]} .

1. ↑ ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12} Pavel Aleksandrovich Baranov, (1892-1962), botanist, embryologist, plant morphologist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Russian) . Information system Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPF ARAN.Fond 917.ISARAN). Date of appeal 2017.09.27.
2. ↑ ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7} Baranov Pavel Alexandrovich (Russian) . "Chronicle of Moscow University." Date of appeal 2017.09.21.
3. ↑ ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10} Dontsova, Zoya Nikiforovna. Ilaria Alekseevna Raikova, 1896-1981 [Text : [nerd]] / [USSR Academy of Sciences]. - L .: Science. Leningrad Branch, 1988 .-- S. 27-28. - 134 p. - 3700 copies. - ISBN 5-02-026593-4 . RSL (Biographical Series)
4. ↑ ^{1 2} Russian botanists: Biographical and bibliographic dictionary / compiled by S. Yu. Lipshits. - M .: Publishing House of the Moscow Society of Naturalists, 1947. - T. 1. - P. 118-121. - 347 p. - ISBN 978-5-4458-6999-3 .

• Great Soviet Encyclopedia: in 30 tons / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov. - 3rd ed .. - M .: Sov. Encycl., 1969-1978.
• Konstantinov N.N. Pavel Aleksandrovich Baranov (1892-1962) // Bulletin of the Main Botanical Garden. - 1963. - No. 49 . - S. 108-110 . - ISSN 0366-502 .

• Subsequently, he was the director of the Pamir Biological Station created by him. He made a number of expeditions and travels to study the wild and cultural flora of Central Asia. Visited West Africa, China, Vietnam, many countries of Europe. He was the director of the Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Author of books about his travels ("In tropical Africa", etc.)
• The Department of Plant Morphology and Plant Biology of the University (SAGU), headed by P. A. Baranov and I. A. Raikova, who initiated the comprehensive study and agricultural development of the most interesting high-mountainous region of the Pamirs, was supported by V. Ya. Yarotsky. <...> needed support from the government, as well as the country's central research institutions. To this end, V. Ya. Yarotsky several times leaves for Moscow and Leningrad <...> As a result, it was possible to agree that the Pamir complex expedition of the SAGU was carried out from 1933 to 1937. with funds from the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, the People’s Commissariat for Agriculture of the Tajik SSR, and also with material support from the Tajik-Pamir expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Central Asian Border Guard Directorate