Fedor Andreevich Shcherbina

Background

Fedor Andreevich Shcherbina was born on February 13, 1849 in Novoderevyankovskaya village of the Yeisk district, Russian Federation.

Education

Fedor Andreevich studied at the Caucasus Theological Seminary (Stavropol, 1866 - 1869), Petrovsky Agricultural Academy (Moscow, 1872 - 1873), at the Physics and Mathematics Department of Novorossiysk University in Odessa (1873 - 1876).

Career

Fedor Andreevich participated in revolutionary-populist activities, in 1877 - 1881 he was in exile in the city of Solvychegodsk, Vologda province. In the years 1884 - 1903, Fedor Andreevich lived in the city of Voronezh, headed the statistical bureau of the Voronezh provincial Zemstvo. He conducted large-scale statistical studies of the Voronezh province (compiler and editor of 66 volumes), for which he was awarded the large Gold medal of the Russian Geographical Society (1887).

Fedor Andreevich was a deputy of the Second State Duma (1907) from the Kuban region, was a member of the faction of people's socialists. In 1920 he emigrated to Czechoslovakia, was a professor of statistics at the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy (now the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine), professor and rector of the Ukrainian Free University in Prague.

Achievements

• For the book "Voronezh Zemstvo of 1865 – 1889: Historical and statistical review" (Voronezh, 1891), Fedor Andreevich was awarded the Alexander II Academy of Sciences prize.