101 EYKHFEL'D 



Biography: 



Academician V. A. Engel'gardt. On the 60th Anniversary 



since the date of birth. Uspelihi Sovremennoi Biol., 1954, 



38, ^3 (6). 



On the 60th Anniversary since the date of birth and the 35th 



Anniversary of scientific activity of Academician Vladimir 



Aleksandrovich Engel'gardt. Voprosy Med. Khim., 1955, 1^, 



#1. 



A. E. Oparin, N. M. Sisakyan et al. Vladimir Aleksandrovich 



Engel'gardt (On the 60th Anniversary since the date of birth). 



Doklady Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., 1954, #6. 



Office: Institute of Radiation and Physico-Chemical Biology 



Moscow, USSR 



EYKHFEL'D, lOGAN GANSOVICH (Botanist) 



I. G. Eykhfel'd was born January 25, 1893. Upon graduation 

 from the Petrograd Agricultural Institute, he became Director 

 of the Polar Division (Murmansk Territory) of the All- Union 

 Institute of Plant Growing from 1923 to 1940 (until 1930, known 

 as the All-Union Institute of Applied Botany and New Cultures). 

 From 1940-1951, he was Director of the Institute at Leningrad. 

 In 1950 he became President of the Estonian S.S.R. Academy of 

 Sciences. In 1953 he was awarded the title Honored Scientist of 

 the Estonian S.S.R., and has been a member of the Lenin All- 

 Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences since 1935. He became 

 an Academician of the Estonian S.S.R. Academy of Sciences in 

 1946 and was elected to the U. S.S.R. Academy of Sciences as a 

 Corresponding Member in 1953. In 1942, he was awarded a 

 Stalin Prize. He was a deputy to the third and fifth convocations 

 of U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet, and was elected again March 1962. 



Eykhfel'd is a specialist in the field of Polar plant cultivation 

 and agriculture. He aided a study on moving agricultural cul- 

 tures into the Northern regions of the country and proved the 

 possibility of creating a vegetable and feed base in severe 

 climatic environments of the Kola Peninsula and the Northern 

 part of the Karelian A. S.S.R. He conducted work on the study 

 and selection of a special set of early ripening cultures for 

 the far North, and of utilizing Khibin rocks as mineral fertilizer, 

 and presented an outline of field cultures of Scandinavia. 

 Bibliography: 



Selection at the Polar Circle. Works of Applied Botany and 



Breeding, 1925, 14, #5. 



