Sinaida Petrovna Botchanzeva

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Sinaida Petrovna Botchanzeva

Zinaida Petrovna Botschanzewa ( Russian Зинаида Петровна Бочанцева ; born September 27 . Jul / 10. October  1907 greg. In Werny ; † 17th August 1973 in Tashkent ) was a Soviet botanist and university lecturer .

Life

Botschanzewa came from a large Cossack family . She studied in Tashkent at the Central Asian State University (SAGU) in the biology department with a degree in 1930. 1930–1933 she took part in expeditions to study the flora of Central Asia . Her teacher was Alexei Ivanovich Vvedensky .

Botschanzewa taught and researched at SAGU. Her main research interests were the morphology , cytology and developmental biology of wild plants and especially tulips , which made her a pioneer in this field . She headed the cytological and developmental department of the Botanical Garden of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic . She crossed decorative natural tulips with each other and with garden tulips to create extremely decorative hybrids . For her results, she received gold, silver and bronze medals at the All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition . She was the author of more than 50 scientific papers. In 1960 she defended her PhD thesis on the morphology, cytology and biology of tulips, which was published as a monograph in 1962 and translated into English in 1982 . In 1966 he was appointed professor .

Botschanzewa described 6 new species:

The botanist Viktor Petrovich Botschanzew was a younger brother of Botchanzewas.

Honors, prizes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Райкова И. А .: Памяти Зинаиды Петровны Бочанцевой (1907–1973) . In: Бюллетень Главного ботанического сада . No. 96 , 1975, pp. 93-96 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Агентство по уходу за памятниками и могилами в Ташкенте: Бочанцева Зинаида Петровна (accessed on January 6, 2020).
  3. ↑ a b Ж. Басмаджян: ДОСТИЖЕНИЯ СОВЕТСКОЙ СЕЛЕКЦИИ ТЮЛЬПАНОВ (accessed January 7, 2020).
  4. ↑ Botschantzeva, ZP: Tulips: taxonomy, morphology, cytology, phytogeography and physiology . CRC Press , 1982, ISBN 90-6191-029-3 .
  5. ↑ Tojibaev Sh. S .: Wild Tulip of Uzbekistan (accessed January 6, 2020).
personal data
SURNAME Botchanzeva, Sinaida Petrovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Бочанцева, Зинаида Петровна (Russian); Botchanzeva, Sinaida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Werny
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1973
Place of death Tashkent