Bakhtin, Veniamin Sergeevich

Veniamin Sergeevich Bakhtin was born in St. Petersburg on March 31, 1888 . June 2, 1907 graduated from the Fifth St. Petersburg gymnasium. August 2, 1907 Entered the department of natural sciences of St. Petersburg University . On October 3, 1909, he got married with his age-mate Ekaterina Alekseevna Bibikova (from an old noble family of Bibikovs). Crowned in the Alexander Nevsky Church. He graduated from the university on May 17, 1913, and was immediately hired as the keeper of the botanical office of the St. Petersburg University. In 1916, for his scientific discoveries on fungal diseases, he received the title of professor. From 1916 to December 1922, he taught at the Samara Agricultural Institute as a professor, at the same time studying parasitic fungi, mainly orthospores, studying the species diversity of mushrooms in the Samara province, as well as molds affecting book paper and spinning cultures. Photo by Professor V.S. Bakhtin made in the summer of 1922 in Samara. In December 1922, all the Bibikovs and Bakhtins were expelled from their own home in Samara, built by Ekaterina Alekseevna’s father (peace agent Alexei Bibikov) at the address: ul. Dvoryanskaya (91 Korostilevyh Brothers Street), 91. Then he returned to Petrograd along with the whole family: his wife, three children, an eleven-year-old Leo, a seven-year-old Tatiana, an eight-month-old Nadezhda, and his mother Nadezhda Yakovlevna Bakhtina (born Ryabkova).

His father, Sergey Alekseevich Bakhtin, was born in St. Petersburg on June 15, 1858, a nobleman, state councilor. Member of the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905. He was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav of the 2nd degree and St. Anne of the 2nd degree, as well as a bronze medal for wearing on the chest on Vladimir ribbon (in memory of the Patriotic War of 1812), a White Eagle medal for wearing on the chest and ribbon, light a bronze medal in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the Reign of the House of Romanov and the medal of St. Vladimir of the 4th degree. He was killed on October 1, 1921 by "Leninists" (ordered killing). On January 24, 1925, the head post office where Sergey Alekseevich Bakhtin was in the service of 39 years, the metric certificate dated June 15, 1858 for number 65 (1 sheet) and the track record of the statesman Alexei Nikolaevich Bakhtin, his father (3 sheets in total) were withdrawn .

At the beginning of 1923, Veniamin Sergeevich worked as a senior laboratory assistant at Academician A. A. Yachevsky in the mycological and phytopathological laboratory of VIZR and taught at the State Institute of Experimental Agronomy , then was a senior assistant and senior specialist at VIZR, and also taught at the Leningrad Institute of Spinning Crops and the Institute applied zoology and phytopathology. In 1925, the fourth child, Sergey, was born to Veniamin Sergeevich and Yekaterina Alekseevny.

In 1928, Professor V. S. Bakhtin gave a qualified mycological characteristic during examination of the Russian National Library in Moscow.

He was arrested by the “Stalinists” on the night of February 7, 1933 in his apartment, in the presence of children, his wife and mother, on trumped-up charges of participating in the White movement in VIZR. He was sentenced to five years' exile in the village of Kolpashevo, Narymsky Krai , where he was appointed an agronomist of the regional administration. In July 1937, he was again arrested in Kolpashevo on trumped-up charges of "participating in a Social Revolutionary-monarchist rebel organization." Shot September 17, 1937 there.

Rehabilitated in 1958.

• Bakhtin V.S., Shurshin P.I. Some data on tomato late blight diseases // Materials on mycology and phytopathology. - 1926. - T. 1 . - pp . 75-84 .

• Macrosporium cannabinum Bakhtin & Gutner , 1933 [= Stemphylium botryosum Wallr. , 1833 ]
• Peronospora tranzscheliana Bakhtin, 1925

• Bakhtin, Veniamin Sergeevich // Russian botanists. Biographical Bibliographical Dictionary / Comp. S. Yu. Lipshitz; rep. ed. Acad. V.N. Sukachev; Mosk. about testers of nature and Botan. Inst them. Acad. VL Komarov, USSR Academy of Sciences. - M .: Publishing House of Moscow. about the nature testers, 1947. - T. I. - p. 143.
• Bakhtin O. V. My father // Leningrad martyrology. 1937-1938 years .. - St. Petersburg. : Ros. nat b-ka, 2002. - V. 5. - p. 511-513.

• Bakhtin Veniamin Sergeevich (Neopr.) . Branch RGANTD in Samara. The date of circulation is January 18, 2015. Archived January 18, 2015.