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Astronomic and geodesic works of Gauss. Karl Friedrich 

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SUKACHYEV, VLADIMIR NIKOLAEVICH (Botanist) 



V. N. Sukachyev was born June 7, 1880. He graduated from 

 the Forestry Institute in Petersburg in 1902 and worked as an 

 assistant at the University. From 1912 to 1918 he was a junior 

 botanist at the Botanical Museum of the Petersburg Academy of 

 Sciences. He was a professor at the Institute of Forestry (later 

 Forest-Technical Academy) 1919-1941, at the Graphic Institute 

 1918-1925, and at Leningrad University 1925-1941. In 1924 to 

 1926, Sukachyev was Chairman of the Acclimatization Depart- 

 ment of the Department of Geobotany, and in 1931 to 1933 of 

 the Main Botanical Garden of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. 

 He moved to Moscow in 1944 and became Director of the Insti- 

 tute of Forestry of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. He was 

 professor at the Moscow Forest-Technical Institute 1944-1948 

 and at Moscow University 1948-1951. Sukachyev was elected a 

 Corresponding Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences in 

 1920, and in 1943 an Academician. Since 1937 he has been a 

 member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1916 

 he was a member -founder and then became President in 1946 

 of the All Union Botanical Society. He has been President 

 (1955) of the Moscow Society of Naturalists, and Honored Mem- 

 ber of the All Union Botanical Society and the Geographic So- 

 ciety of the U.S.S.R. The Geographical Society awarded him 

 prizes four times, 1912, 1914, 1929, 1947. In 1951 he was 

 awarded a Gold Medal of V. V. Dokuchaev by the U.S.S.R. 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Sukachyev conducted many expeditions for studying the vege- 

 tation of various regions of the country. He spent much time 

 in studying swamps and worked out the theory of the formation 

 of swamps which he presented in a book (Swamps: their For- 

 mation, Development and Character, 1914). He also studied the 

 vegetative cover, working in phytocoenology. In geography, Suka- 

 chyev advocated a wide complex approach to the study of natural 

 phenomena and in particular to vegetation. In paleo -botany, 

 Sukachyev developed spore-pollen analysis for studying post- 

 glacial and mid-glacial deposits of the U.S.S.R. In the study of 

 forests, he proposed methods of characterization of types of 



