Ana Charadse

Ana Charadse ( Georgian ანა ხარაძე ; Russian Анна Лукьяновна Харадзе ; born November 17 ^jul. / 30th November 1905 ^greg. In Jelisawetpol ; † 20th June 1977 in Tbilisi ) was a Soviet botanist and university teacher of Georgian origin.

Life

Charadze, daughter of a school teacher of natural history , graduated from the Tbilisi Technical Center, then studied at the University of Tbilisi in the biological department of the Faculty of Natural Sciences , graduating in 1927.

After studying Charadse was taxidermist in the Botanical Cabinet of the Museum of Georgia (now State Simon Janashia -Museum of Georgia), where it until 1931 under the direction of Boris Konstantinovich Shishkin worked and Elizabeth Kikodses. In addition, she began teaching at the University of Tbilisi, first as an assistant and then as a lecturer . She took part in all floristic expeditions of the museum and the Georgian Geographical Society in Svaneti , Chewsuretia and Chewi in the municipality of Qasbegi to explore nature in the Georgian high mountains. She was also a member of the Georgian Alpinist Club , who founded Soviet mountaineering and with whom she climbed the Tetnuldi in 1933 .

In 1934 Charadze became a research assistant in the Department of Plant Systematics and Geobotany of the Botany Institute Tbilisi of the Georgian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR, since 1991 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN)), where she was headed by Dmitri Ivanovich Sosnowskis and Nikolai Adolfowitsch Buschs began to work. In 1938 she defended her candidate dissertation on the investigation of the difficult cycle of Minuartia imbricata ( M.Bieb. ) Woronov in relation to the systematics . She published an important paper on the systematics of bluebells . In 1952 she became the head of the Department of Plant Systematics and Geobotany at the Botany Institute in Tbilisi and remained so until her death. Her main research interests were endemics , xerophilia and psychrophilia in vegetation .

Charadze was an elected member of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (1951–1954), a founding member of the Georgian Botanical Society, a member of the Scientific Council of the All Union Botanical Society (since 1952), a member of the All Union Coordination Commission of the AN-SSSR and a member of the Georgian Geographical Society.

Honors

Order of the Red Banner of Labor
Anniversary medal "In memory of the 100th birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Certificate of Honor of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
Small silver medal of the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy

Web links

International Plant Names Index (IPNI): Kharadze, Anna Lukianovna (1905–1971)

Individual evidence

↑ Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries: Index of Botanists: Kharadze, Anna Lukianovna (accessed February 18, 2020).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Харадзе, Анна Лукиановна (Kharadze, Anna Lukianovna) (accessed February 18, 2020).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e А. Г. Долуханов, А. А. Колаковский / AG DОLUКНАNОУ, AA KOLAKOVSKY: АННА ЛУКЬЯНОВНА ХАРАДЗЕ (1905–1977) (к 80-летию со дня рождения) (80-летию со дня ) (190 . In: БОТАНИЧЕСКИЙ ЖУРНАЛ . tape 70 , no. 5 , 1985, pp. 702–705 ( [1] [PDF; accessed February 19, 2020]).
↑ Харадзе А. Л .: Опыт систематики кавказских видов рода Campanula L. секции Medium A.DC. In: Заметки по систематике и географии растений . No. 15 , 1949, pp. 13-34 .

personal data
SURNAME	Charadse, Ana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Харадзе, Анна Лукьяновна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 30, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Yelisavetpol
DATE OF DEATH	June 20, 1977
Place of death	Tbilisi

[1] Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries: Index of Botanists: Kharadze, Anna Lukianovna (accessed February 18, 2020).

[botan-2] Харадзе, Анна Лукиановна (Kharadze, Anna Lukianovna) (accessed February 18, 2020).

[dolub-3] А. Г. Долуханов, А. А. Колаковский / AG DОLUКНАNОУ, AA KOLAKOVSKY: АННА ЛУКЬЯНОВНА ХАРАДЗЕ (1905–1977) (к 80-летию со дня рождения) (80-летию со дня ) (190 . In: БОТАНИЧЕСКИЙ ЖУРНАЛ . tape 70 , no. 5 , 1985, pp. 702–705 ( [1] [PDF; accessed February 19, 2020]).

[4] Харадзе А. Л .: Опыт систематики кавказских видов рода Campanula L. секции Medium A.DC. In: Заметки по систематике и географии растений . No. 15 , 1949, pp. 13-34 .