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About Alexey Skvortsov
- Alexey K.
- Skvortsov (9 February 1920 – 8 May 2008) A Russian botanist and naturalist, a specialist on amentiferous plants—willows (Salix), poplars (Populus), and birches (Betula) as well as plants of the evening primrose family (Onagraceae), A.K.
- Skvortsov was, at the same time, well known in Russia as an editor in Priroda (Nature) Magazine (1971–2005) and author of many articles on botany, evolutionary biology, and Darwinism.
- A botanist of vast erudition, Skvortsov was a surveyor and contributor to many regional floras and a tireless collector of plant specimens.
- He collected at least 80,000 plant samples while walking across nearly all of the Soviet Union including the most remote regions of Russia and adjacent republics.
- He traveled in many other countries, including Northern and Central Europe, the United States, India, and China.
- The establishment of the Herbarium at the Main Botanical Garden in Moscow as a world-class depository with a vast foreign exchange program is largely due to Skvortsov's efforts.
- He also made additions to the living collection of the Main Botanical Garden.
- His approach toward botany and evolution inspired him to undertake experimental work in plant introduction.
- Together with a team of colleagues and students, he successfully worked on domesticating and improving the taste of blue honeysuckles (Lonicera Section Caerulea).
- He also developed a cultivar of an apricot hardy in Moscow.
- Skvortsov played a role as a conservation advocate proposing and facilitating the establishment of a new national park in his homeland, Kaluga Oblast and Smolensk Oblast of Central European Russia.
- He cared about the natural heritage of his country, but also about preservation of the Russian language.
- He spoke out for high language standards in scientific publications.
- A.K.
- Skvortsov is commemorated in the naming of the following plants: Festuca skvortsovii E.
- Alexeev Salix alexi-skvortsovii A.P.
- Khokhr. Legousia skvortsovii Proskur. Circaea x skvortsovii Boufford Potamogeton skvortsovii G.Yu.
- Klinkova and others.
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