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The Institute of Plant Industry was established in 1921 in Leningrad by Nikolai Vavilov who set about to create the world's first and largest collection of plant seeds. . Already in 1916 he did his first collection trip abroad, to Iran, and by 1932 he had collected seeds from almost every country in the world, which by 1933 had made the institute the largest seed bank in the world, with more ...
The Pavlovsk station itself fell into German hands during the Siege of Leningrad in 1941–1944, but prior to the arrival of German troops, scientists from the Institute of Plant Industry were able to move much of the station's tuber collection to a location within the city. Twelve of these scientists died of starvation while protecting the ...
The Leningrad seedbank was preserved and protected through the 28-month long Siege of Leningrad. While the Soviets had ordered the evacuation of art from the Hermitage Museum, they had not evacuated the 250,000 samples of seeds, roots, and fruits stored in what was then the world's largest seedbank. A group of scientists at the Vavilov ...
SSE began a commercial seed catalog in 2000. [2] Today, it has more than 13,000 members worldwide, [4] passing on more than one million seed samples and distributing over 20,000 varieties of endangered seeds. [2] The SSE publishes a list of members' seeds annually in the Seed Savers Yearbook, complete with a description of the crop and its ...
The Kirov Plant, Kirov factory or Leningrad Kirov plant (LKZ) (Russian: Кировский завод, romanized: Kirovskiy zavod) is a major Russian mechanical engineering and agricultural machinery manufacturing plant in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was established in 1789, then moved to its present site in 1801 as a foundry for cannonballs.
The seed bank has a bias in stocking high CBD seeds for cannabis’ touted therapeutic and healing properties, e.g. pain relief, relaxation, nausea relief, and more.
Ukraine's national seed bank, one of the world's largest, has been successfully moved from the frontline eastern city of Kharkiv to a safer location, Crop Trust, a non profit organisation said on ...
The State Bank of the USSR building patterned gates and the building 2,500,000 (350,000 proof) 1991 5 rubles Statue of David of Sassoun in Yerevan, Armenia the monument, date: "1959" 2,500,000 (350,000 proof) 1991 5 rubles Red Data Book of the Russian Federation: Markhor on top of a rock, outer part:copper-nickel alloy, inner part: copper-zinc ...