Background
Viktor Viktorovich Talanov was born on November 27, 1871, in the city of Nizhniy Novgorod, Nizhegorod, Russian Federation.
Viktor Viktorovich Talanov
Saint Petersburg State Forestry University
Viktor Viktorovich Talanov was born on November 27, 1871, in the city of Nizhniy Novgorod, Nizhegorod, Russian Federation.
Viktor Viktorovich graduated from Saint Petersburg Forest Institute (now Saint-Petersburg State Forestry University) (1896) and Novoalexandriysky Institute of Agriculture and Forestry (1898).
In 1899, Viktor Viktorovich worked in Kamennaya steppe as an agronomist for a Special Expedition of the Forest Department to test and record the forest and water resources of Russia under the guidance of Professor V.V. Dokuchaev. In 1899-1906, he was an agronomist in Stavropol. In 1906-1907, the manager and teacher of private agriculture of Sumy Agricultural School in Kharkiv province.
In 1907-1913, the provincial agronomist of the Ekaterinoslav region. In 1919-1922, Viktor Viktorovich was a professor at the Siberian Institute of Agriculture and Forestry, and since 1921, Head of the Taiga Agriculture Department at Siberian Institute of Agriculture and Industry in Omsk.
Viktor Viktorovich was a consultant to the people's Commissariat of Agriculture of the RSFSR since 1922. He was a Deputy Director of the All-Union Institute of Applied Botany and New Cultures since 1925. In 1927, he made a scientific trip to the United States. He was twice involved in the case of the Labor Peasant Party fabricated by the Joint State Political Department (1931, 1932). In 1933-1934, he was in exile in the Krasnoyarsk territory.
In 1935-1936, Viktor Viktorovich was a professor, head of the Department of Leading Crops of Voronezh Higher Communist Agricultural School. Creator of the system of state testing of agricultural crops.
Author of books: Regions of Spring and Winter Wheat Varieties of the USSR and Their Quality (Moscow, 1928); Breeding, Seed, and Grain Farming in the North American United States and Canada (Moscow; Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), 1931) and others.
