Aleksandr Fomin (botanist)
Russian-Soviet botanist (1867-1935)
Aleksandr Vasiljevich Fomin (1869-1935) was a botanist. He studied ferns and seed plants. He was also a director of the Kiev University Botanical Garden; which was renamed after him, when he died. He was a subject of the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union.
Biography
He was born in the village of Ermolevka in Petrovsk, Saratov Oblast on (14 May [O.S. 2 May] 1869.
From 1888 to 1890, Fomin along with Nicolaĭ Adolfowitsch Busch and Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov, funded by the Russian Geographical Society, took several botanical and geographical expeditions to the Caucasus.
In 1893, he graduated from Moscow University.
In 1896, he became a graduate assistant at the Universität Dorpat (now known as the University of Tartu, Estonia).
Fomin, Busch and Kuznetsov later wrote 'Flora Caucasica critica' (Materially dlia flory Kavkaza : kriticheskoe sistematichesko-geograficheskoe izsliedovanie), which was published between 1901 and 1913. It was written as a special supplement to the journal 'Trudy Sankt-Peterburgskogo obshchestva estestvoispytatelei', v.
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