Alexey Pavlovich Shekhurdin (1886 - 1951 ) - Russian and Soviet breeder.
| Shekhurdin Alexey Pavlovich | |||||||
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| Date of Birth | March 10 (22), 1886 | ||||||
| Place of Birth | Bykovo village, Urzhum County Vyatka province Russian empire | ||||||
| Date of death | March 2, 1951 ( 64) | ||||||
| Place of death | Saratov , RSFSR , USSR | ||||||
| A country |  Russian Empire ,  the USSR | ||||||
| Scientific field | biologist , breeder | ||||||
| Place of work | Saratov Agricultural Experimental Station | ||||||
| Alma mater | Saratov Agricultural Institute | ||||||
| Academic degree | Doctor of Agricultural Sciences | ||||||
| Known as | breeder of drought tolerant high-yielding spring wheat varieties | ||||||
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Biography
Born on March 10 ( March 22 ), 1886 in the village of Bykovo (now Kirov Region ).
He graduated from a village school and a two-year school. In 1901 - 1904 he studied at the Nartas Agricultural School. He was sent to work in the village of Krotkoye ( Tula province ), for several years he was in charge of the estate on the estate of Professor I. A. Stebut .
In 1911 he moved to Saratov , worked as a laboratory assistant at the agricultural experimental station. The first in Russia applied the methods of interspecific, intergeneric and complex stepwise hybridization in the selection of grain crops. In 1920-1924 he bred several promising varieties of spring wheat.
In 1928 he graduated from the Saratov Agricultural Institute as an external student. Doctor of Agricultural Sciences (1936). Professor (1945). In 1946-1948, at a scientific and teaching work at the department of selection and seed production of the Saratov Agricultural Institute.
He died on March 2, 1951 in Saratov .
On the basis of spring wheat varieties obtained by Shekhurdin, his students in 1960 developed the Saratovskaya 29 variety, which gained world fame. In the USSR, this wheat was grown on an area of more than 7 million hectares.
One of the streets of Saratov is named after Shekhurdin. A monument was erected to him on the territory of the NIISH of the Southeast RSHA.
Awards and Prizes
- Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1947)
- Stalin Prize of the second degree (1942) - for the creation of wheat varieties Lutenscens S-605 and Lutenscens S-758
- The order of Lenin
- two orders of the Red Banner of Labor (including 09/19/1946)
- medals
Notes
Descendants:
Shekhurdin Yuri Germanovich, Vladivostok.
Shekhurdin Leonid Dmitrievich, Kirov Shekhurdin Valery Leonidovich Kirov Shekhurdin Alexander Leonidovich Kirov Shekhurdin Sergey Alexandrovich Kirov
Sources
- Shekhurdin Aleksey Pavlovich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
- Shekhurdin Alexey Pavlovich [1]