[1] From the memories N.Poppe: One day in spring 1937 my aide Kazakevich and I received an order to prepare ourselves for a journey to Mongolia from the president of the Academy of Sciences, V. L. Komarov, a famous botanist and head of the Mongolian Commission.

The Mongolian government, through the Foreign Service, had asked the academy to send scholars to conduct field work.

Several weeks later we were summoned to Komarov who told us that exit permits had been denied to both of us, and then he added, "We thought both of you to be loyal citizens of the Soviet Union and chose you as prospective members of the expedition."

He had no right to talk to us in that manner, completely disregarding the fact that Kazakevich was a senior research scholar and I had been a corresponding member of the academy since 1932.

In 1939, botanist Evgenii (Yevgeni, Eugeny) Petrovich Korovin (1891-1963), published a genus of flowering plants (in the family Apiaceae), from Uzbekistan, as Komarovia in his honour (a name since replaced by Komaroviopsis).