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Medvedev, Yakov Sergeevich

Yakov Sergeyevich Medvedev ( 1848 - 1923 ) - Russian botanist - dendrologist and arborist, Caucasus vegetation specialist, secret adviser .

Yakov Sergeevich Medvedev
Date of Birth1848 ( 1848 )
Date of death1923 ( 1923 )
A country
Scientific fieldbotany
Alma mater
Taxonomy of wildlife
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 (neopr.) . Big Biographical Encyclopedia (2009). Date of treatment January 3, 2015. Archived January 3, 2015.
Source - https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Medvedev_Yakov_Sergeevich&oldid=96428926


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