CHEKHOV Vladimir Petrovich

(27.12.1897 - 1937)

He graduated from the Tomsk State University (1926). Student and employee GA Levitsky the laboratory cytology VIR. Engaged in karyological studies of plants - clover, alfalfa, clover and other legumes. From 1929 to 1937. headed the Department of Cytology, Genetics and Plant Breeding, Tomsk University, also was director of the Siberian Botanical Garden. The main scientific works are devoted to the study of chromosome sets of wild and cultivated plants, legumes kariosistematike. Results of studies at the same time published in domestic and foreign magazines, they still refer to scientists. Dedicated to the breeding of cereals, vegetable crops. Studied cytogenetic effects of irradiation of seeds of plants and processing them poliploidogennymi substances. Arrested along with a group of employees in 1937. Shot