In Alekhin, biography

Born in Kursk, in the family of a merchant. Being an eight -year -old boy carefully brought into the notebook the name of plants that grown in the home garden on the street. At the age of 13, on his birthday, he received as a gift the book of P. Maevsky “Flora of Central Russia”, and completely “fell ill” by botany after which he was seriously interested in the collection and determination of plants under the leadership of Uncle Alexei Vasilievich Alekhin, a student of the Kursk Flore collector A.

finished in the city of Kursk male classical gymnasium with a gold medal, he entered the natural department The Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow University, where at that time the nature explorer K. Timiryazev, geochemist and mineralogue V. Vernadsky, drove lectures at that time, was studied by Alyokhin studied Botanika with Professor I. Gorozhankin, who had been doing a lot of Russia, which succeeded in knowing the flora of the middle lane.

Arriving in his native land, student V. Alyokhin proceeded along and across the Streletskaya, Cossack, Yamsky steppes near Kursk, described their vegetation and opened them for science. For many years he devoted to the collection of materials during expeditions on the steppes of the Tambov, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and other provinces. The scientist gave the classification of the steppes, compiled sightseeing maps of the vegetation of the European and Asian parts of the Russian Empire, developed a methodology for geobotanical research, made a great contribution to the development of phytocenology - the doctrine of plant communities.

For scientific merits, V. Alyokhin without the defense of the dissertation appropriated the scientific degree of a doctor of biological sciences. As a result of thorough studies, he managed to find the steppe virgin areas that did not know the intervention of man, which were never concerned with the plow's bowl. After graduation at the city of Moscow, he worked in the same place. In gg.

Later, V. Alyokhin’s work in the Kursk steppes entered all the textbooks of botanical geography and became known all over the world. In the city of Alyokhin by the decree of the Soviet government, the title of professor was awarded. He taught in parallel in other Moscow universities. Studies by V. Alyokhin on the territory of the current Kursk region subsequently allowed to open natural monuments - protected areas in Barkalovka and Bukerev Barma, with habitats of relict flora.

One of the main merits of the geobotanian scientist was the organization on his initiative in the city of outstanding works of the flora of the steppes, including the “Essay of Vegetation and its consistent shift on the Streletskaya Steppe section near Kursk”, “Cossack steppe of the Kursk district in connection with the surrounding vegetation”, “Russian steppes and methods for the study of their vegetation cover”, “Central-Black-and-Eye Steppe”, etc.

Alyokhin became the recognized head of the Moscow School of Geobotanics and Human Botanics, who brought up several generations of researchers.

Despite the extraordinary employment related to scientific, pedagogical activities, the scientist cut out the time to come to the Kursk province, where his Kursk steppes entrusted him. An in -depth search, animated by the natural environment unchanged from time immemorial, allowed the geobotanics to open a high species saturation of the plant community in the Streletsky steppe.

On one square meter, he counted up to 80! The scientist called this phenomenon "Kursk botanical anomaly." On the territory of the village. The protected central-Black-Emergal State Reserve, a monument to Alekhin’s bust was erected next to the administrative building. In January, scientists from Moscow, Belgorod, Kursk who made reports came to a consensus: practice confirmed the correctness of the fundamental provisions of Professor Alyokhin.

Soch: “Fundamentals of botanical geography”, “Geography of plants. Fundamentals of phytogeography, ecology and geobotanics ”, 3rd ed. Griva, N.