Education
Saint Petersburg State University.
Botanist geographer mycologist phycologist pteridologist
Saint Petersburg State University.
Until his death in 1945, he was senior editor of the Flora SSSR (Flora of the USSR), in full comprising 30 volumes published between 1934–1960. He served as President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1936-1945. The Komarov Botanical Institute and its associated Komarov Botanical Garden in Saint Petersburg are named after him.
Selected bibliography
Coniferae of Manchuria. Trudy Imp. S.Peterburgsk. Obsc. 32: 230-241 (1902).
De Gymnospermis nonnullis Asiaticis I, II. Bot.
Mater. Glavn. Bot. Sada RSFSR 4: 177-181, 5: 25-32 (1923–1924). Florae peninsulae Kamtschatka (1927).
Gerb.
[Russian Academy of Sciences. Society for the Study of the Amur Region. Russian Geographical Society.
Russian Academy of Sciences. Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences]
He was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1914 and its full member in 1920.