Sergei Navashin

Sergei Gavrilovich Navashin (Russian: Серге́й Гаврилович Навашин; 14 December 1857 – 10 December 1930) was a Russian Empire and Soviet biologist.

[1] 1874 — enters the Medical Surgical Academy in St. Petersburg, works on chemistry in the laboratory of A. Borodin 1878 — moves to the Moscow University, obtains Candidate degree in 1881 in Biology.

Under the influence of K. Timiryazev and V. Zinger starts to study Botany.

Receives a position of a laboratory assistant at the chair of Plant Physiology and later (1885) in the Petrovskaya Agricultural Academy.

1894 — is invited to work at the chair of Systematics and Morphology of the Kiev University.