Background
EDEL’SHTEYN, Vitaliy was born on April 29, 1881.
EDEL’SHTEYN, Vitaliy was born on April 29, 1881.
1902 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Forestry Institute.
1902-1907 at Department of Botany, Saint St. Petersburg University. 1907-1913 lecturer, Uman Acric College. 1913-1916 head, Tula Horticultural Station.
1916-1923 professor, Moscow Agric Institute. From 1923 head Department of Vegetable Growing, and from 1946 professor, Moscow Timiryazcv Agric Academy. Founded first Soviet department of vegetable growing and experimental vegetable station at Timiryazev Agric Academy.
Religion is bad because it stops people thinking in a rational and objective way.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Honorary member, All-Union Academy of Agric Sciences from 1956. Communist Party member from 1952.