Is there any way that some group could buy
the land--it does not seem to be a huge piece. (But of course, what group?)
From:
nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of rob hamilton
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010
5:55 AM
To: North
American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Earlier
Russian trouble
People have been writing letters to pres. Medvedev according some
articles which has had some effect as far as auctioning off the land. Of course
that will not effect the actual support for the program. The only thing I feel
that we can do for them is to share their story... share our story. At the very least their
work will not be forgotten.
Jerry I urge you to interview them with a tape recorder or video. Have them
tell their story (the story of the scientist from the first contact as well if
we can) - what the do, what the working conditions are like, the state of the
program and its contents. Ed mentioned possibly working on and article
revisiting the NAFEX /Russia
trip. I was working on an introduction to that before my computer
crashed.
This maybe that most that we can do, but I feel it would be an important
contribution.
On the same note the is a very good but sad account of the founder of the
institute Nikolai Ivanovich
Vavilov who stared to death in prison
under Stallin.
The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The
Story of Stalin's Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth
Century by Peter Pringle
(it would be nice to see if the author would do a followup with this
situation)
Another book I am currently reading is:
Where Our Food Comes From:
Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine by Gary Nabhan
I hope his collection does not end up the same way he did
Robert Hamilton
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From: Betty Mayfield
<bmayfield@opusnet.com>
To: North
American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>; North American Fruit Explorers
<nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sun, September 5, 2010
6:49:54 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Earlier Russian
trouble
To the list,
Apparently underfunding of the Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry has been
going on for some time, according to an article by Gabrielle Strobel in Science
News, Dec. 18, 1993, which said the institute was operating on a shoestring.
And other dangers were faced.
"Some of the institute's riches have vanished already. Before the breakup
of the Soviet Union, the Vavilov network consisted of 19 experimental stations,
six of them located outside Russia.
One of these, the Sukhumi station in Georgia's contested western province of Abkhazia,
was destroyed in this year's [1993] civil war.
"Alexey Fogel, an 83-year-old botanist and 50-year veteran of the Sukhumi station, rescued seeds as he fled Abkhazia through
mountain paths in the Caucasus range, says
Sergey Alexanian, a spokesman for the Vavilov institute. Fogel, his son
Vladimir, also a scientist at the Sukhumi
station, and two other botanists succeeded in evacuating 226 precious samples
of subtropical fruit plants and almost the entire lemon collection to the
Russian town of Sochi.
"There the samples will be kept permanently, hopes Alexanian, provided the
Russian government absorbs the cost. The institute does not plan to move them
to the St. Petersburg
collection because the city's climate is not conducive to growing and studying
subtropical plants. The 2,000 samples left behind in the Sukhumi station are probably spoiled,
Alexanian says."
Betty Mayfield
northwest Oregon
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