Claim: Vladimir Sukachev found 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: 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.