Yuriev, Vasyl

Yuriev, Vasyl [Юр’єв, Василь; Jur’jev, Vasyl'], b 20 February 1879 in Ivanovska Virga, Penza gubernia, Russia, d 8 February 1962 in Kharkiv. Selection and plant cultivation scientist; full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR from 1945. A graduate of the Kharkiv Agricultural Institute (1905), he worked at the Kharkiv Selection Station (1909–56, from 1944 as director), taught at the Kharkiv Agricultural Institute (from 1937), and headed the Institute of Genetics and Selection of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1946–56) and the Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Plant Cultivation, Selection, and Genetics (from 1956). He was one of the founders of the Soviet selection and seed cultivation industry and the creator of many productive varieties of winter and spring wheat.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]