Russian Botanical Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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RUSSIAN BOTANICAL SOCIETY of the Russian Academy of Sciences, situated at 2 Professora Popova Street. It was founded in Petrograd in December 1915 at a congress of representatives of botanical institutions from various Russian cities. Renamed the State All-Russian Botanical Society in 1932-45 and the All-Union Botanical Society from 1945, it received its current name in 1992. The society arranges and holds congresses, symposiums, and meetings devoted to topical issues of botany and related sciences and conservation of natural and plant resources. It comprises of the central organisation and 19 departments and commissions including the departments of cultivated plants, wetland science, forestry and dendrology, flora and vegetation, and scientific education and the commission for conservation of vegetation. It has 41 branches in Russian cities uniting over 1,800 people. With a congress as its superior body, the society also has a Council and Presidium providing leadership between congresses. Presidents of the society have been: I. P. Borodin in 1916-30, V. L. Komarov in 1930-45, V. N. Sukachev in 1946- 63, Е. М. Lavrenko in 1963-82, A. L. Takhtadzhyan in 1982-92, and R. V. Kamelin since 1992. The society has been publishing Botanical Journal since 1916, and publishes two other journals, Problemy Botaniki since 1950 and Rastitelnost Rossii since 2001, as well as theses and reports for international and national botanical congresses, subject collections, monographs, and guidance manuals.

Reference: Лавренко Е. М., Юнатов А. А. Пятьдесят лет Всесоюзного ботанического общества // Ботанич. журн. 1965. Т. 50, № 9. С. 1205-1247; Всесоюзное ботаническое общество: Справ. Л., 1978.

O. N. Ansberg. Borodin Ivan Parfenievich
Kamelin R.V.
Komarov Vladimir Leontievich
Lavrenko Evgeny Mikhailovich
Sukachev Vladimir Nikolaevich
Takhtadzhyan Armen Leonovich
Professora Popova St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 2
Всесоюзное ботаническое общество: Справ. Л., 1978
Лавренко Е. М., Юнатов А. А. Пятьдесят лет Всесоюзного ботанического общества // Ботанич. журн., 1965