Masalsky Vladislav Ivanovich

Born in 1859, . graduated from the Physics and Mathematics University of St. Petersburg by the natural separation, . 1885 - 86 years of research produced in Batum and Kars in the border areas and parts of Asia Minor and was an assistant at the department of botany at the Imperial Academy of Medicine,
. The initiative Masalsky was nominated by the publication of a description of outstanding privately-owned farms, the study of many branches of agriculture (grass planting, gardening, wine, culture, buckwheat, tea, cotton and t. forth), and the data obtained (in part or in person) served in a series of measures to improve and develop these industries. Many experimental and demonstration facilities, particularly in Turkestan and the Caucasus, were arranged with the close participation Masalsky. In 1907, Mr.. Masalsky appointed a board member of the main land management and agriculture, and in 1909. Manager, Land improvements. During this time the activities of the department received an extraordinary development. Masalsky - one of the best connoisseurs of cotton, Turkestan and Caucasus Studies. He published more than 150 individual works, numerous articles, studies and monographs on agriculture, land improvements, botany, geography, Economic Affairs and T. n. The principal: "Essay on the climate and flora Druskenikayskih mineral water" ( "Proceedings of the St. Petersburg Society of Natural History", . 1884), . Outline of the Batumi region "(" Proceedings of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, . 1886), . "Essay on the border of Kars area" (ibid., . 1887), . Essay Kagyzmanskogo District ( "Western Caucasus branch of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society", . 1886), . "Winemaking in Russia" ( "Agriculture and Forestry", . 1890), . "Cotton case in Central Asia and its Future" (1892), . Culture olives in Russia and measures for its improvement and development "(" Agriculture and Forestry ", . 1896), . "Ravines chernozem zone of Russia, . dissemination, . development and activity "(Saint-Petersburg, . 1897), . "Agricultural experienced institutions in Russia, . their organization, . tasks and activities "(Journal of Finance", . 1899), . "On the reduction of crops of buckwheat in Russia" ( "Proceedings of the Earth and the Ministry of State Property", . 1898), . "The outskirts of Russia - Turkestan and the Caucasus" (published for the exhibition in Paris at the French and Russian, . 1900), . "Cotton in Siberia" ( "Proceedings of the Earth and the Ministry of State Property", . 1902), . "Grass planting in Russia" (Journal of Finance ", . 1905), . "Reluctant Land and land improvements" (Journal of Finance ", . 1908), . "Progressive Trends in the peasant economy" (Journal of Finance ", . 1908), . "Cotton, . irrigation of public lands and private enterprise "(Saint-Petersburg, . 1910), . "The cotton issue" (St. Petersburg, . 1911), . "Turkestan region (St. Petersburg, . 1913), . "Division of land improvements in 1909 - 1913 years" (Petrograd, . 1914),
. Masalsky - Officer 82-volume Brockhaus - Ephron and this Dictionary.