Vladimir Sukachev

Vladimir Sukachev
Vladimir Nikolayevich Sukachev (also spelled Vladimir Nikolajevich Sukaczev) (born 7 June 1880 in Aleksandrovka, Russian Empire – died 9 February 1967 in Moscow) was a Russian geobotanist, engineer, geographer, and corresponding member (1920) and full member (1943) of the USSR Academy of Sciences. His wife was Henrietta Ippolitovna Poplavskaja.
Education
Suckachev attended Imperial Forestry Institute in Saint Petersburg, where he studied under Gavriil Ivanovich Tanfilyev and Vasily Dokuchaev. He graduated in 1902 and remained several years with the institute as an assistant and instructor.
Career
In 1919 Sukachev founded the Department of Dendrology and Systematics of Plants at the Imperial Forestry Institute, which he chaired until 1941.
From 1941 to 1943, he managed the Department of the Biological Sciences at the Ural Forestry Institute, in Sverdlovsk.
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.
Sukachev also led the Laboratory of Forestry USSR Academy of Sciences (1959) and the Laboratory of Biogeocenology with the Botanical Institute of the AS USSR (1965).
Associations and honors
Sukachev was president of the Moscow Naturalists Society from 1955 to 1967. He was a founding member of the Russian Botanical Society (1915); and was from 1946 to 1963 its president (from 1964 honorary president).
He was elected foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1959 and corresponding member of the Czechoslovak Agricultural Academy in 1927.
Legacy
The Sukachev Institute of Forestry, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Moscow, is named after him.
Selected works
Сукачёв В.Н. Биогеоценология и фитоценология // Докл. АН СССР. 1945. Т. 47, № 6. С. 447–449. *Сукачёв В.Н. О соотношении понятий "географический ландшафт" и "биогеоценоз" // Вопросы географии. М. : Географгиз, 1949. Вып. 16. С. 45–60.
Сукачёв В.Н. Общие принципы и программа изучения типов леса // Сукачёв В.Н., Зонн С.В. Методические указания к изучению типов леса. 2-е изд. М. : Изд-во АН СССР, 1961. С. 9–75.
Сукачёв В.Н. Биогеоценоз как выражение взаимодействия живой и неживой природы на поверхности Земли : соотношение понятий "биогеоценоз", "экосистема", "географический ландшафт" и "фация" // Основы лесной биогеоценологии / под ред. В.Н. Сукачёва, Н.В. Дылиса. М. : Наука, 1964. С. 5–49.
см. также: Сукачёв В.Н. Избранные труды в трех томах / под ред. Е.М. Лавренко. – Л. : Наука. –Т. 1 : Основы лесной типологии и биогеоценологии. – 1972. – 419 с. ; Т. 2 : Проблемы болотоведения, палеоботаники и палеогеографии. – 1973. – 352 с. ; Т. 3 : Проблемы фитоценологии. – 1975. – 543 с.
See also
Biocoenosis
Leonty Ramensky
References
Teplyakov, V. (1998). History of Russia Forestry and Its Leaders. Diane Pub. Co.
Сукачёв, Владимир Николаевич
Mirkin B. M. 1987. Paradigm change and vegetation classification in Soviet phytocoenology. Vegetatio 68, 131-138
20th-century Russian botanists
Russian ecologists
Russian foresters
Soviet biologists
Soviet engineers
1880 births
1967 deaths
Dendrologists
Forestry academics
Forestry in Russia
History of forestry education
Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925)
Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Saint-Petersburg State Forestry University alumni
Academic staff of Saint-Petersburg State Forestry University