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Boris Konstantinovich Schischkin (born 1886 in Kukarka; died 21 March 1963 in Leningrad) was a Russian botanist and from 1943, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. His name was (ロシア語:Борис Константинович Шишкин), with his surname sometimes transliterated as Shishkin. == Life and Works == In 1911 Schischkin graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Tomsk State University and from 1913 to 1915 he taught there. Between 1915 and 1918 he worked as a military medical officer. From 1918 to 1925 he headed the botanical section of the Caucasian Museum in Tbilisi. From 1925 to 1930 he was professor at the Tomsk State University, where he held a chair of morphology and plant systematics. From 1930 he worked in the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (from 1938 to 1949 as director) and from 1945 to 1958 also as professor at Leningrad University. From 1946 to 1963 he was vice-president of the Botanical Society of the USSR. Shishkin's herbarium included more than thirty thousand samples, the majority of which are held in Tomsk. His main work was concerned with the classification of flowering plants (especially from the families Caryophyllaceae, Umbelliferae and Compositae) and plant geography (Siberia, Transcaucasia). He was the organizer and editor of numerous joint works, including ''The Flora of the USSR'' (), ''The Flora of the Byelorussian SSR'' (), ''the Flora of the Leningrad Oblast ('' ) and ''the Flora of Turkmenistan'' (). He was a regional adviser for the Soviet Union on the Flora Europaea project. Another significant works of the 1900s was 'Flora Rossiae Austro-orientalis' (1927-1936, index in 1938) by Boris Fedtschenko and Schischkin.〔 David G. Frodin 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boris K. Schischkin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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