Aleksandr Vasiljevich Fomin
| Aleksandr Vasiljevich Fomin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
2 May 1869 Ermolevka, Petrovsk, Saratov Oblast, Russia |
| Died | 16 October 1935 (aged 66) Kiev |
| Residence | Russia |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Fields | Botany |
| Alma mater | Kiev Taras Shevchenko University |
| Known for |
Taxonomy Botany |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Fomin |
Aleksandr Vasiljevich Fomin was a Russian botanist that lived during the reign of the Soviet Union. He studied ferns and seed plants. He was also a director of the Kiev University Botanical Garden. Which was renamed after him, when he died.
He was born in the village of Ermolevka in Petrovsk, Saratov Oblast on (14 May [O.S. 2 May] 1869.
From 1888 to 1890, Fomin along with Nicolaĭ Adolfowitsch Busch and Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov, funded by the Russian Geographical Society, took several botanical and geographical expeditions to the Caucasus.
In 1893, he graduated from Moscow University.
In 1896, he became a graduate assistant at the Universität Dorpat (now known as the University of Tartu, Estonia).
Foin, Busch and Kuznetsov later wrote 'Flora Caucasica critica' (Materially dlia flory Kavkaza : kriticheskoe sistematichesko-geograficheskoe izsliedovanie), which was published between 1901 and 1913. It was written as a special supplement to the journal 'Trudy Sankt-Peterburgskogo obshchestva estestvoispytatelei', v. 31, pt. 3, 1901, and v. 34, pt. 3 1905-1908. This published several new species of plant including, Arabidopsis pumila,
In 1902 he became a botanist at the Tbilisi Botanical Gardens.
Between 1907 and 1919, he wrote 'Kavkaza i Kryma' (Flora of the European part of Russia, An illustrated key to the wild plants of European part of Russia and Crimea) with Yury Nikolaevich Voronov, about plant species in the Caucasus. Although, it was unfinished due to the start of the 1st World War. He also wrote in 1907 'Cucurbitaceae i Companulaceae flory Kaukaza'.
In 1914, Fomin became a Professor at the University of Kiev, (under O. Fomin).
Between 1914 and 1935, he served as director of the Saint Vladimir University Botanical Garden, Kiev, Ukraine. During the severe winter of 1919–1920, he and his team saved many green-house plant collections from the frost.
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