Background
Boris Petrovitch Uvarov was born in Ural"sk, in the Russian Empire (now Oral, Kazakhstan), the son of Pyotr P. Uvarov, a state bank employee, and his wife, Aleksandra.
Boris Petrovitch Uvarov was born in Ural"sk, in the Russian Empire (now Oral, Kazakhstan), the son of Pyotr P. Uvarov, a state bank employee, and his wife, Aleksandra.
He studied biology in the Saint St. Petersburg State University, graduating in 1910.
He worked as entomologist in Stavropol and put locust control on a sound scientific basis. From 1915 he worked in Tiflis, which after the Russian revolution of 1917 had become the capital of the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia. Starting in 1945, Doctor Uvarov and his small team received official designation as the Anti-Locust Research Centre.
During the next fourteen years, the Centre developed into the foremost laboratory in the world for research on locusts.
He made important contributions in the areas of taxonomy, population biology and locust control.
Royal Society.