Sapegin Andrew Afanasievich

(11.12.1983 - 8.04.1946)
He graduated from the Novorossiysk University in Odessa in 1907. In 1910-1922gg. worked at the University (from 1917. - Professor), simultaneously (v1912-1923.) Headed the Odessa plant-breeding station, and in 1919-1931gg. - Odessa Agricultural Institute. In 1931, Mr.. short vremyanahodilsya under arrest. In 1933. moved to Leningrad, at sleduyuschiygod - in Moscow, where in 1933-1939 he. was Vice direktoraInstituta Genetics, USSR Academy of Sciences. AA Sapegin in 1939. returned to Ukrainu.V 1939-1945,. - Vice-President of SSR, in 1944-1946 he. - DirektorInstituta Botany SSR. He studied the development of individual plants, studied mezhvidovyegibridy soft and hard pschenits. One of the first in the world applied for-atsiyu for mutations in crop plants. Deduced ryadvysokoproduktivnyh varieties of winter wheat (Kooperatorka, etc.), yarovoypshenitsy (Odessa 4), barley.