Kira Arkadievna Sobolevskaya

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Kira Arkadjewna Sobolewskaja ( Russian Кира Аркадьевна Соболевская ; born December 12, 1911 ; died October 20, 1999 ) was a Russian botanist and founder of the Central Siberian Botanical Garden in Novosibirsk , of which she was the director for 20 years. Your botanical author abbreviation is “ Sobolevsk. ".

Life

Sobolewskaja was the daughter of a Siberian forester and botanist and took an early interest in Siberian flora and soil science. She studied at the State University in Tomsk and took in the course of their studies at several expedition to the Altai and Sayan Mountains part.

She detected a subspecies of the red foxglove that can grow all over Siberia and researched a wild-growing species of buckwheat in Siberia , from which she obtained rutin for the treatment of hypertension , among other things . In Tuwa she researched which wild plants were suitable for keeping and feeding livestock; in her dissertation in 1951 on the flora and vegetation of Tuwa , she described several plants.

In 1951 she founded the Central Siberian Botanical Garden. On the uncultivated wasteland near Novosibirsk, she collected all the plant species of Siberia that she could access, with a special focus on frost-resistant crops such as apple, pear, plum and sour cherry trees. She became a member of the Academy of Sciences and remained director of the garden until 1971, which also required her organizational and economic expertise.

From 1975 she put further emphasis on the conservation of the natural flora of Siberia. She published, especially in the 80s and 90s, 176 works, including 15 monographs , on rare and endangered plants of the USSR , Siberia and Russia.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Biography of the archive of the weekly newspaper of the Siberian section of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  2. ↑ a b c d Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 440.
personal data
SURNAME Sobolevskaya, Kira Arkadievna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Соболевская; Кира Аркадьевна (Russian); Sobolevsk. (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1911
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1999