Tikhon Rabotnov

Tikhon Alexandrovich Rabotnov (Ти́хон Алекса́ндрович Рабо́тнов; 6 July 1904 – 16 September 2000) was a Russian plant ecologist.

He was professor and head of the Department of Geobotany at Moscow State University until 1981.

He was a father figure to generations of Russian plant ecologists.

He conducted ground breaking studies in the regeneration of natural plant communities – studies which remained largely overlooked in the West.

Rabotnov founded and edited the still ongoing Biological Flora of the Moscow Region from volume 1 (1974) to his death (vol 8, 1990).