Ovsyannikov, Vladimir Fedorovich

Born on June 24, 1876 in the village of Zverinogolovskaya, Orenburg province. Father - Fyodor Semenovich, from the serfs of Yegoryevsky district of Ryazan province, was released and left for the Orenburg province, where he lived with his family, engaged in agriculture and small contracts.

Until the age of 15, he lived with his parents and studied at the Kurtamyshevsky two-class rural school. In order to earn money for further studies, in the fall of 1892 he got a job at the Mishkino station for the construction of the Siberian Railway.

Failed when trying to enter the Perm Technical Railway School at the public expense. Returning to Yekaterinburg , he worked at the cloth factory of the Zlokazov brothers, giving lessons in the evenings. In 1894, he passed the exam at the Kungur Technical School, which he graduated with the title of a master of engineering in engineering. In the fall of the same year he entered the St. Petersburg Forest Institute. At the same time, before graduation, he worked at the Peasant Land Bank.

In the spring of 1902 he accepted the invitation of the famous arborist V. A. Tikhonov. Under his leadership, he worked as a taxi driver in the forests of the Penza and St. Petersburg provinces. From the fall of 1902 until the summer of 1903 he served in the army in the Finnish Regiment. At the same time, in his spare time, he was engaged in applied meteorology at the university under the guidance of professors A.I. Voeikov and G.A. Lyuboslavsky .

At the suggestion of the director of the St. Petersburg Forest Institute, E. Kern worked as a teacher and head of the Talitsky Forest School in Perm as a forester of the II category of the Verro Forestry of the Livonia Province. In 1911, he was awarded a small gold medal and an honorary review at the Omsk Agricultural Exhibition for an exhibit on artificial afforestation and the organization of forest seed farming , and an honorary badge of the Perm Provincial Zemstvo. In Yekaterinburg, he took an active part in the organization of the People’s University Society, where he actively conducted lecture work.

In 1912 he was awarded the title of Corresponding Member of the Main Physical Observatory for his work on studying the Russian climate and meteorological research .. In 1917 he was elected assistant professor of the Department of Forestry and Dendrology of the Ural Mining Institute. For the first time in the Urals, compiled and published in 1913, tables of growth of pine plantations.

In 1919, when the army retreated, Kolchak was evacuated to Vladivostok. In 1920-1922 he headed the local Polytechnic Institute, at the same time supervised the women's gymnasium, and lectured in working circles. In 1922, as a good administrator, "a man with a name," the mayor Yeremeyev put forward his candidacy for managing the public education of the White Guard Government of Merkulov. And although Ovsyannikov did not give consent, he was listed in this position for three months.

After the establishment of Soviet power, he studies the woody flora of the Far East, participates in scientific expeditions, goes on business trips to Germany, China and Japan.

In 1923, he was elected professor of the Department of Dendrology and Botany of the Agronomy Faculty of the Far Eastern State University. In 1926-1930 he was a professor at the Ural Polytechnic Institute, the Far Eastern University and the Far Eastern Forestry Institute. For 30 years he has written 31 scientific papers on applied meteorology, forest science and forestry, as well as 12 textbooks.

Since 1931 he moved to Moscow, where he works as a professor at the Institute of Public Utilities and at the same time as chairman of the scientific and technical council. Later he manages the Trust Construction Greenhouse under the Moscow City Executive Committee .

As a senior researcher at the Far Eastern Regional Forest Experimental Station, in 1932 in Moscow and in 1934 in Khabarovsk he was persecuted by the OGPU as "an active member of the counter-revolutionary, spy-insurgent and wrecking organization", whose leader, according to the Far Eastern Chekists, was deceased in 1930 the famous scientist and traveler V.K. Arsenyev. The organization allegedly set as its goal the overthrow of Soviet power in the region through armed insurrection and Japanese intervention. In addition, Ovsyannikov was accused of allegedly being nominated as a member of the Constituent Assembly, was a candidate for the commission of inquiry at Kolchak and in the monarchist Russian Renewed Society. However, he was released, and the case was stopped for lack of evidence.

In 1938, he got a job at the Ryazan Pedagogical Institute, where the department of botany just turned out to be decapitated: associate professors N. E. Maslova and E. I. Yablokova were fired and repressed for "theoretical and political distortions in teaching." He became the head of the department.

He was again arrested on July 17, 1941 at the age of 65. From Ryazan transferred to prison number 1 in Novosibirsk . May 1, 1943 at 23 o'clock he died in a prison hospital from myocardial infarction.

In April 1966, the youngest of his sons Igor achieved the complete rehabilitation of his father: “To amend the decision of May 21, 1943, the criminal case should be stopped by further proceedings due to the absence of corpus delicti in the actions of Ovsyannikov ...”.

• Medals: a small gold medal for exhibits on artificial afforestation and organization of forest seed farming ( 1911 ).
• Honorary review at the Omsk Agricultural Exhibition.
• Honorary badge of the Perm provincial zemstvo.
• Doctor of Agricultural Sciences .
• Corresponding Member of the Main Physical Observatory ( 1912 ).
• Arborist I category.

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