Popov, Alexander Vasilyevich (breeder)

Born in the village of Znamenskoye (Big Burtas), Kerensky district, Penza province ; besides him, the parents had ten more children.

In 1921 he graduated from the Unified Labor School in Kerensk . After that, he went to Penza with the intention of enrolling in a gardening school. However, the same year he passed the documents to the Voronezh Agricultural Institute . He graduated in 1926, began his career at the Ramon Experimental Selection Station under the direction of academicians A. L. Mazlumov and I. V. Yakushkin . He worked at the Ramonsky breeding station until 1940, when he passed as a senior specialist on sugar beet breeding at the Uladovsky breeding station.

In early July 1941, with his family and employees, he was evacuated to the Kyrgyz SSR - to the Novotroitsk sugar factory of the Frunzensky district.

Since January 1945, he has been working at the Yaltushkovsky breeding station ( Vinnytsia region ) as the head of the department of sugar beet breeding.

One of the team of breeders who for the first time in the world created a monoecious form of sugar beet and brought it to production use.

In 1955, the team launched a new variety of sugar beet seeds - Yaltushkovsky odnorostkovy 2; put into practice in 1958.

The hybrid was created by crossing 83% of Yaltushkovsky single-seeded and 17% of multi-seeded variety Ramon 06, zoned in 1960. His co-authors: A. V. Popov, A. K. Kolomiets, I. F. Buzanov , V. P. Zosimovich, M. G. Bordonos, and G. S. Mokan.

In general, brought 8 varieties of sugar beet.

Published his 12 scientific papers, among them: "Single-seed sugar beet", 1956,

• "Single-seed sugar beet in the USSR", together with Orlovsky M. I. and Kolomiyets OK, K., 1958

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• Post-war period in the development of beet breeding (inaccessible link)
• Yaltushkov
• Origin and selection of sugar beet in Ukraine (inaccessible link)
• Popov Alexander Vasilyevich