Sergey Stepanovich Kanash ( 1896 - 1975 ) - Soviet scientist in the field of selection and seed production of cotton .
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| Date of Birth | September 24 ( October 6 ) 1896 | |||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Tashkent Syrdarya region (Russian Empire) | |||||||||||
| Date of death | November 29, 1975 (aged 79) | |||||||||||
| Place of death | Tashkent UzSSR , USSR | |||||||||||
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| Scientific field | breeder | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | SAGU | |||||||||||
| Academic rank | Academician of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences , academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR | |||||||||||
| Known as | author of highly productive disease resistant cotton varieties | |||||||||||
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Biography
He graduated from SAGU (1923). He worked as an intern, assistant, head of the selection sector, deputy director for science (1932–1941), director (1942–1958) of the Turkestan selection station (since 1960 - research institute for selection and seed production of cotton, Ministry of Agriculture of the Uzbek SSR ).
In 1960-1965, director, in 1965-1968, head of the genetics department of the Research Institute of Breeding and Seed Production of Cotton.
He is the author of many highly productive disease-resistant cotton varieties with high fiber yields.
Academician VASKHNIL (1948). Full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR (1952).
Member of the Supreme Council of the USSR of 2–4 convocations (1948–1958). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1940 .
Awards and Prizes
- Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Uzbek SSR (1944);
- Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Tajik SSR (1946);
- Stalin Prize of the second degree (1941) - for the cultivation of highly productive varieties of cotton
- two orders of Lenin
- four orders of the Red Banner of Labor (including 11.11.1946; 11.01.1957)
- Order of the Red Star
- Grand Gold Medal
- medals
Sources
- Biographical Encyclopedia of RAAS, Supreme Agricultural Academy [1]