Yakov Sergeyevich Medvedev ( 1848 - 1923 ) - Russian botanist - dendrologist and arborist, Caucasus vegetation specialist, secret adviser .
| Yakov Sergeevich Medvedev | |
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| Date of Birth | 1848 |
| Date of death | 1923 |
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| Scientific field | botany |
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Author of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation " Medw. " . List of such taxa on the IPNI website Personal page on IPNI website |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Some scientific publications
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
Born in 1847 or 1848 .
He studied at the Agricultural Institute in St. Petersburg , graduated in 1869. Then he worked as a forester in the Caucasus , a few years later he was appointed authorized chief manager of land management and agriculture. He was a member of the Council of the Caucasian Governor, and later - Deputy Chairman of the Transcaucasian Statistical Committee.
Since 1908 - in Moscow , in 1915 he returned to the Caucasus. He worked as a consultant in the Tiflis Botanical Garden , then as a consultant in the forest department of the Ministry of Agriculture.
After 1921 he remained in Tiflis, was a consultant to the forest department of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture and the forest committee of the Supreme Economic Council .
He died in 1923 .
In 1907, Medvedev divided the Caucasus region by the nature of vegetation, highlighting, for example, the Ciscaucasia, the following areas: Western Ciscaucasia, Eastern Ciscaucasia and the Caspian brackish steppes. Discoverer of several plant taxa, in particular, Eldar pine ( Pinus brutia var. Eldarica ) and the maple Trautfetter ( Acer heldreichii var. Trautvetteri )
Some scientific publications
- On areas of vegetation in the Caucasus , "Bulletin of the Tiflis Botanical Garden", 1907, no. 8.
- Vegetation of the Caucasus: the experience of the botanical geography of the Isthmus of the Caucasus. - Tiflis, 1915-18. - T. 1, no. 1-2.
Notes
Links
- Medvedev, Yakov Sergeyevich . Big Biographical Encyclopedia (2009). Date of treatment January 3, 2015. Archived January 3, 2015.