Malyshev, Leonid Ivanovich

Born on March 3, 1931 in the village of Kapustino ^{[1] in the} Malovishersky District (now the Novgorod Region).

He graduated from the first three grades of elementary school at the Bolshe-Pekhovskaya school. Since 1940 he lived and studied in the city of Borovichi, Novgorod Region. Already in his school years, he showed a deep interest in the surrounding nature. Starting from the elementary grades, he constantly communicated with the staff of the local museum of local lore, participated in excursions and small expeditions in the vicinity of the city.

In 1948 he entered the department of selection and seed production of the agronomy faculty of the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy in Moscow. After studying for six months, in February 1949 he transferred to the biological and soil faculty of Moscow State University , which he graduated with honors in 1953.

After graduating from Moscow State University, he entered graduate school at the East Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Irkutsk.

In 1958 he defended his thesis, topic: "Vegetation of the forest belt of the coasts of Northern Baikal."

From 1958 to 1976 he worked at the Biological Institute of the VSF Academy of Sciences of the USSR, later renamed the Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences .

For eight years (1957-1964) he was engaged in a systematic examination of the high-mountain flora of the East Sayan. He managed to collect comprehensive information about the flora of this mountainous country. The research materials were published in 1965 in the form of the monograph "The High-Mountain Flora of the Eastern Sayan", which was also a doctoral dissertation, successfully defended in Leningrad. In the same year, a large summary was published, "Problems of the Genesis of the Alpine Flora of the Eastern Sayan Mountains."

Since 1964 - Head of the Laboratory of Flora and Plant Resources.

In 1976, together with the laboratory staff, he moved from Irkutsk to Novosibirsk to the Central Siberian Botanical Garden of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences . For many years he headed the Laboratory of Systematics of Higher Vascular Plants and Florogenetics, from 1976 to 1983 he was director of the institute.

Leading specialist in the field of comparative floristics, systematics of higher vascular plants, botanical geography and florogenetics, one of the largest researchers on Siberian flora.

Under his leadership, studies of the highlands of the Highlands of the Highlands were carried out, which were completed by the publication of the collective monograph “Highlands of the Highs of the Highlands”, then studies of the large mountain range Putorana (Zaeniseisky Sever), summarized in the collective monograph “Flora Putorana”.

With his active participation in 1969, the All-Union Symposium on the History of Flora and Vegetation of the Highlands of North Asia was held in Irkutsk, and the atlas of the areas Endemic High Mountain Plants of North Asia was prepared and published by the combined efforts of several organizations of the USSR.

For several years, he took part in the work of the comprehensive International Expedition organized by Irkutsk and Mongolian State Universities to examine natural resources in the area of ​​Lake Khubsugul in Mongolia. In 1978, he worked as the head of the Soviet delegation in the United States as part of the Soviet-American botanical expedition, organized on the basis of an intergovernmental agreement on joint research in the field of environmental protection.

He conducted a detailed study of the systematics and chorology of plants, developed methodological approaches to the floristic zoning of Siberia, North Asia and other territories. He was the organizer and participant of numerous expeditions to remote mountain ranges of Siberia. Under the guidance and with his active participation, summarizing reports have been compiled on the flora of Central Siberia, the Putorana Plateau, and the Stanovoy Highlands; one of the first to develop the scientific foundations for the conservation of rare and endangered plants in Siberia. He described more than a dozen new plant species for science.

He became the ideological organizer and one of the authors of the collective multi-volume report “Flora of Siberia”, the editor-in-chief of this publication. Even before the publication of the volume in Russia, the Flora of Siberia volumes began to be translated and published in the United States. In total, he published about 200 scientific papers published in Russia and abroad, including the monograph “Alpine flora of the Eastern Sayan”, “Key to high-mountain plants of Southern Siberia” (L., 1968), etc.

Under the leadership of L. I. Malyshev, the herbarium collections were significantly replenished, candidate and doctoral dissertations on the systematics and chorology of individual genera and families were defended, a scientific school of highly qualified botanists was formed.

• At the edge of the snowy peaks. Travel botanist on the East Sayan: memoirs. - Kemerovo: KREOO "Irbis", 2007.
• Abstract of Siberian Flora: Vascular Plants. - Novosibirsk: Science, 2005.
• Need protection - rare and endangered plants of Central Siberia. - Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1979. (et al.)
• Protection of the gene pool of natural flora. - Novosibirsk: Science, 1983.

• Not all roads have been completed yet // Science in Siberia. - 2006. - March 3.
• On the great Trans-Asian mountain path // Science in Siberia. - 2001. - March 2.

• Prize named after V. L. Komarov (1972) - for a series of scientific works on the study of the high-mountain flora of Southern Siberia
• Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (2006)

• Malyshev, Leonid Ivanovich on the official website of the RAS
• Malyshev, Leonid Ivanovich . encyclopedic certificate (neopr.) . Irkopedia . Date of treatment December 5, 2016.
• Science in Siberia (neopr.) . sbras.ru. Date of treatment December 4, 2016.