Nikolay Tarachkov

Background

Nikolay Tarachkov was born on the13th of March 1822 in Mogilëv, Dnipropetrovs'ka Oblast', Ukraine.

Education

In 1845, Nikolay Tarachkov graduated from the 2nd department of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow University.

Career

Nikolay Tarachkov was a teacher of natural history and botany in the Voronezh Mikhailovsky Cadet Corps from 1845 to 1864. He collected an extensive collection of flora, fauna, and minerals of the Voronezh region, which later became the basis of the exposition of the Voronezh Regional Museum of Local Lore. In 1851, at the initiative of Nikolay Tarachkov, a meteorological station was opened in Voronezh, in 1860 - a branch of the Moscow Committee for the Acclimatization of Animals and Plants.

Since 1847, Nikolay Tarachkov published articles on the natural resources of the Voronezh Territory in the Voronezh Provincial Gazette. He is the author of the catalog of dried plants of the Voronezh flora, publications in the Memorial Book of the Voronezh Province for 1856, the Voronezh Conversation for the Year 1861 (St. Petersburg, 1861). In 1857, Nikolay Tarachkov discovered granite deposits near the village of Buylovka (Voronezh Provincial Gazette, 1858. No. 34). Since 1864 he was a teacher at the Oryol Military Gymnasium. Publisher of the newspaper "Orlovsky fact sheet" (1873-1876).

Achievements

• For scientific work, Nikolay Tarachkov was awarded medals by a number of scientific societies, including the Paris Society of Acclimatization (1862).