Grigory Rubtsov Biography

Rubtsov Grigory Aleksandrovich Rubtsov belongs to the cohort of the leading engines of the pre -war pore. He is well known as the first Soviet Monograph in the culture of a pear. The pear’s capital labor published by him, which came out in two editions, has not lost its relevance at the present time. A. Rubtsov was born on January 18 30, Novikovo Kozlovsky district of the Tambov province.

He received primary education at a parish school, he began his career in a rural school. In the city of scientific work, A. Rubtsov began to engage in relatively late, when he was far over thirty. Then he worked in the nursery of I. Michurin for two years in the city of Kozlov of the Tambov province. Since the spring of the city of Rubtsov, he has been working in the fruiting department of the All -Union Institute of Applied Botany and New Cultures, led by Professor V.

Given the tasks set for scientists, Vir N. Vavilov, A. Rubtsov purposefully works on their decision. He conducted wide studies on the comprehensive knowledge of the genetic potential of the genus Pyrusl. As a result, he managed to clarify the areas of the species of pears dedicated to these regions. He actively participated in the creation of a unique world collection of cultivated varieties and wild pears.

In gg. In a short time, the best varieties and wild species that had in domestic scientific institutions were collected here under the leadership of the city of Rubtsov. Grigory Alexandrovich adequately represented the Vavilov galaxy of scientists in capital work VIR "Theoretical Fundamentals of plant breeding", in which he prepared the section on the selection of fruit crops.

He also published a lot of work "Scientific foundations of breeding fruit trees." The last prewar years, he is preparing material for the alleged large -scale publication "Pranology of the USSR", studies resistance to steam on extensive hybrid material obtained from crossing Chinese species with cultural pear and xerophytic species. Grigory Alexandrovich died when, it seemed, all the worst was already behind.

The path from the besieged Leningrad through Ladoga took away the last forces of his body exhausted by the terrible hunger. Almost immediately after the evacuation in early spring, Grigory Alexandrovich Rubtsov passed away.

A small bag of seeds was found on his chest, carefully stored in the hungry and cold days of the first blockade winter. Such bags with seeds were evacuated by virers to preserve the samples of the world collection, Combines N.