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Guide of Actinomycetes. Actinomycetales. Moscow - 

 Leningrad: 1941. 



Microbiological Bases of Bacterial Fertilizers. Moscow- 

 Leningrad: 1945. 



Guide of Actinomycetes and Bacteria. Moscow-Leningrad: 

 1949. 



Actinomycetes-Antagonists and Antibiotic Substances. 

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Soil Microorganisms and Higher Plants. Moscow, Academy 

 of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., 1958. [i.e. Jerusalem, Israel 

 Program for Scientific Translations; available from the 

 Office of Technical Services, Washington] 474 p. 

 Office: Institute of Microbiology of USSR Academy of 



Sciences 



Leninskii Prospekt, 33 



Moscow, USSR 



KRASNOVSKII, ALEKSANDR ABRAMOVICH (Biochemist) 

 A. A. Krasnovskii was born in Odessa in 1913. He studied 



at the Mendeleev Chemical and Technological Institute, Moscow. 



In 1948 he earned his Doctor of Biological Science degree. He 



became, in 1951, a deputy Laboratory Chief in the U.S.S.R. 



Academy of Sciences Institute of Biochemistry. Krasnovskii 



was elected a Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy 



of Sciences in 1962. In 1950 he was awarded the A. N. Bakh 



Prize. 



Krasnovskii' s main work is in chlorophyll chemistry and 



photosynthesis. 



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