Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov

Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (Russian: Влади́мир Лео́нтьевич Комаро́в; 13 October [O.S. 1 October] 1869 – 5 December 1945) was a Russian botanist.

For other people with the same name, see Komarov (surname).
Vladimir Komarov

Until his death in 1945, he was senior editor of the Flora SSSR (Flora of the U.S.S.R.), in full comprising 30 volumes published between 1934 and 1960.[1] He was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1914 and its full member in 1920. He served as President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1936–1945.

The Komarov Botanical Institute and its associated Komarov Botanical Garden in Saint Petersburg are named after him.

In 1939, botanist Evgenii (Yevgeni, Eugeny) Petrovich Korovin (1891-1963), published a genus of flowering plants (of family the Apiaceae), from Uzbekistan, as Komarovia in his honour.[2]

List of selected publications
  • Coniferae of Manchuria. Trudy Imp. S.Peterburgsk. Obsc. 32: 230-241 (1902).
  • De Gymnospermis nonnullis Asiaticis I, II. Bot. Mater. Gerb. Glavn. Bot. Sada RSFSR 4: 177–181, 5: 25-32 (1923–1924).
  • Florae peninsulae Kamtschatka (1927).
  • Komarov, V. L., ed. (1934–1960). Flora of the U.S.S.R. 30 vols. Leningrad: Botanicheskii institut akademii nauk SSSR.

References
  1. Komarov 1934–1960.
  2. "Komarovia Korovin | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  3. IPNI.  Kom.
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