Mikhail Piatrovich Tomin

Mikhail Piatrovich Tomin (25 July 1883 – 30 May 1967) was a Russian and Soviet lichenologist.

Mikhail Piatrovich Tomin was born on July 25, 1883, in the village of Sharovichi, Kaluga Governorate.

Until 1929, Tomin worked at the Voronezh Agricultural Institute (first as a laboratory assistant, then as an assistant to Boris Aleksandrovich Keller), after which he moved to Arkhangelsk, becoming head of the department of botany at the Forestry Engineering Institute.

Tomin was a professor at the Orenburg Institute of Large Beef Cattle Breeding and Veterinary Medicine.

[1] After the end of the Great Patriotic War, Tomin continued to work in Minsk, where he headed the flora sector of the Central Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences.