Memorable dates of Russia: Historical and documentary exhibition “125 years of the birth of the Academician N. I. Vavilov. Years 1887-1943” in Saint-Petersburg

26 November 2012
Source: Federal Archival Agency

November 26, 2012 the Exhibition Hall of the Federal Archives in St. Petersburg opens a historical and documentary exhibition "125 years of the birth of Academician N. I. Vavilov. Years 1887-1943 ".

The exhibition is dedicated to the anniversary date of the scientist - botanist, geographer, genetics and selectionist N. I. Vavilov - an important public event of the archives community.

The chronological framework of the exhibition is the end of the XIX century – year 2012. The period under review is a controversial historical period that has multiple internal and external cause-effect relations in various spheres of public life, everyday life and culture.

There are three stages within the specified period. The first includes documents from the late XIX century up to 1921. This section of the exhibition presents the following topics: the Vavilov family; student life of N. I. Vavilov; the formation of a scientist, institutional forms of Applied Botany at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries and scientific predecessors of N. I. Vavilo; scientific achievements of N. IU. Vavilov in July 1917 - January 1921.

The second part of the exhibition is devoted to the work of N. I. Vavilov, led the national biological science in 1921-1940. A separate set of documentary materials is related to the confrontation of N. I. Vavilov and his associates with the so-called "Lysenko" agro biology.

The final part of the exhibition presents documents about the arrest of N. I. Vavilov on August 6, 1940 during the expedition of the Integrated People's Commissariat of the USSR in the western Ukrainian and Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, the investigation and the unjust trial, imprisonment academician and his rehabilitation.

The exhibition features more than 250 personal and official documents and artifacts from the collections of archives and research institutions, family archives of the son of scientist N. I. Vavilov. Visitors of the exhibition can see the family tree of the Vavilov family, watch documentaries of N. I. Vavilov and photographs from the collection of WGA and CSA QFA KFFD of St. Petersburg.