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forests. He also has worked in systematics of wood (larch, 

 birch, willow) and obtained a series of valuable sorts of willows. 

 Scientific research on protective forest growing has been con- 

 ducted under his leadership since 1949. He is the author of 

 a series of textbooks and handbooks on dendrology, geobotany, 

 the study of vegetation and especially on the study of the types 

 of forests, and also work on some questions of Darwinism. 



In 1960 Sukachyev was named an Honored Scientist of the 

 R. S. F.S. R. 



As of 1961, Sukachyev has been Chairman for the Study of 

 the Quaternary Era, Moscow, Academy of Sciences U.S.S.R. 

 Biography: 



V. B. Sochava . Creative path of V. N. Sukachyev and his 

 role in the development of geobotany and study of the land- 

 scale (on the 75th Anniversary since date of birth, and the 

 55th Anniversary of scientific activity). Proceedings of the 

 AU-Union Geographic Society, 1955, 87, #5. 

 To Academician V. N. Sukachyev on the 75th Anniversary 

 since the date of birth. Collection of Works on Geobotany, 

 Forestry, Paleogeography and Flora. Moscow -Leningrad: 

 1956. 

 Office: Laboratory of Forest Studies of USSR Academy of 



Sciences 

 Moscow, USSR 

 Residence: Leninskii Prospekt, 13 



Moscow, USSR 

 Telephone: V2 23 52 



SVETOVIDOV, ANATOLI NIKOLAEVICH (Ichthyologist) 



A. N. Svetovidov was born November 3, 1903. He graduated 

 in 1925 from the Faculty of Fisheries of the Moscow Agri- 

 cultural Academy of K. A. Timiryazev. In 1932 he began work 

 at the Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences U.S.S.R., 

 Leningrad. He has been a doctor and professor since 1928 and 

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

 since 1953. 



Svetovidov' s work is concerned with the classification, 

 morphology, geographical distribution, and historical origin 

 of fish. 

 Bibliography: 



Materials on classification and biology of umber of the Lake 

 Baikal. Trudy of the Baikal Limnological Station, 1931, 1. 



