Boris Fedtschenko

Boris Alexeevich Fedtschenko (27 December 1872 – 29 September 1947) was a Russian plant pathologist and botanist.

They made a large circular botanical voyage around the Crimean Mountains and collected in the Sevastopol area.

[4] Between 1899 and 1904, their large collections (including 700+ specimens from SW Crimea) were carefully studied and completely reflected in a series of papers.

It conducted fieldwork in Central Asia during the 1920s, which added species information to the Flora SSSR project.

Sada (Proceedings of the St.Petersburg Botanical Garden), including Eritrichium pamiricum in 1903, based on the expeditions.

[6] In 1904, he published Novitae florae Turkestanciae,[7] which was also translated into German in 1914 - Übersicht sämtlicher bis jetzt für den Russischen Turkestan.

[8] In 1908, he stopped the publication of the botanic garden's journal Botanicheskij Zhurnal (Ботаническiй Журналъ), which had been published from 1906 to 1908.

It published issues eight times a year, until 1915 when World War 1 started and financial cutbacks had to be made.

He attended the International Congress of Tropical Agriculture and Colonial Development (discussing cotton in Egypt).

The volumes covered some 17,500 plant species, and represented a huge step forwards for Russian botany.