Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov

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Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (Russian: Влади́мир Лео́нтьевич Комаро́в; 1869–1945) was a Russian botanist.

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 1934–1960. 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.

Selected bibliography

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).

The standard author abbreviation Kom. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

References

↑ [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=Kom. "Author Query for 'Kom.'"]. International Plant Names Index.

Academic offices
Preceded by Alexander Karpinsky	President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 1936–1945	Succeeded by Sergey Vavilov

Authority control	VIAF: 66549671 ISNI: 0000 0001 0910 7021 GND: 126508887 BNF: cb12393460h

Persondata
Name	Komarov, Vladimir Leontyevich
Alternative names
Short description	Russian botanist
Date of birth	1869
Place of birth
Date of death	1945
Place of death

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