Background
ZHDANOV, Leonid was born in 1890.
Phytoculturist and selectionist
ZHDANOV, Leonid was born in 1890.
Specialist in selection and seed-growing of olive crops and the theory of agricultural science. Derived new types of sunflower (“Donskoy 309”, “Donskoy 695”, “Mayak”), castor plant (“Donskaya 172/1”, “SanguineusDonskaya 39/44”), flax (“Donskoy 166”), Lallemantia iberica (“Donskaya 2”, “Donskaya 24”, “Donskaya 152” and “Donskaya 74”), sesame (“Donskoy 23”), Indian mustard (“Donskaya” Yellow Grain), safflower and Lactarius delicosus. Established the reasons why the broomrape species of sun flower causes damage, isolated a southern type of this parasite (“malicious” broomrape B) and introduced new broomrape-resistant types of sunflower).
1916-1918 specialist in southern cultures at Ozureti Experimental Station. 1918-1924 Assistant Head, Field Cultivation Section, Rostov-Nakhichevan Regional Agriculture Experimental Station. Since 1924 senior specialist in selection, and later Head, Selection Department, and Deputy Science Director, Don Zonal Experimental Selection Station, All-Union Research Institute of Oleaceae and Essential-Oil Bearing Crops.
During World War II Director, then Deputy Science Director, Kirghiz Selection Station, Frunze. Member, Rostov Oblast Committee for the Defense of Peace. Deputy, USSR Supreme Soviet of 1950, 1954 and 1958 convocation.
Religious moral codes pervert people outside their group as less moral. Thus, religion is socially divisive and its effect is harmful for society.
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