Claim: Vladimir Sukachev (born June 7, 1880) founded the Department of Dendrology and Systematics of Plants at the Imperial Forestry Institute in 1919 and organized the Forestry Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1944.
Evidence: Vladimir Nikolayevich Sukachev (also spelled Vladimir Nikolajevich Sukaczev) (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Сукачёв; born June 7, 1880 in Aleksandrovka, Russian Empire – died February 9, 1967 in Moscow) was a Russian geobotanist, engineer, geographer, and corresponding member (1920) and full member (1943) of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1919 Sukachev founded the Department of Dendrology and Systematics of Plants at the Imperial Forestry Institute, which he chaired until 1941. In 1944, Sukachev organized the Forestry Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now the Institute of Forest and Wood of Siberian Department of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Krasnoyarsk), which he led up to 1959.