Top management history

    The Greatest Scientist of VIR

    Some historical aspects of VIR Avena L. World Collection

    A history of world collection of plant genetic resource in Russia
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• Establishment and activities of the Bureau of Applied Botany before 1905
• The structure and organization of the Bureau in the years 1905-1920
• Objectives and tasks of the Bureau, 1905-1920
• Organization of VIR's Work for Plant Genetic Resources.
• Major collecting missions accomplished by N.I.Vavilov's associates.
• Major species collected by N.I.Vavilov on his expeditions (1916-1940).
• VIR's major expeditions within the former USSR in 1986-1990.
• Major collecting missions to foreign countries accomplished by VIR's specialists (1954-1994).
• Joint collecting missions of COMECON countries (1973-1990).
• The list of the International COMECON List of Descriptors.

    Nikolay Ivanovich Vavilov

• Vavilov's life
• Major N.I.Vavilov's expeditions.
• Luter Burbank and Nikolay Vavilov (Rus)
• The correspondence of Nikolay Vavilov and Georgy Karpechenko (Rus)

  WWW about N.I.Vavilov

• Nyikolaj Ivanovics Vavilov
• Russian stamps.1987.Birth Centenary of N.I.Vavilov