Stuk ADH/2/88 - AD Hall and U.S.S.R: letters and newspaper cuttings; Ivan V Michurin

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AD Hall and U.S.S.R: The jubilee of IV Michurin

Admin History: Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin: (1855 – June 7, 1935) was a Russian practitioner of selection to produce new types of crop plants, Honorable Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and academician of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agriculture. His methods were championed by Trofim Lysenko as part of the political campaign against genetics and science-based agriculture that became known as Lysenkoism and Michurinism. Throughout all his life, Michurin worked to create new sorts of fruit plants. He introduced over 300 new varieties. He was awarded the Order of Lenin and Order of the Red Banner of Labour for his achievements. The town of Michurinsk is named in his honor, as was the Bulgarian town of Tsarevo between 1950 and 1991.