The article, based on materials from the Moscow State University Archives, examines the activities of the Botanical Garden of Moscow University during the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945). Using a systematic approach, the article traces changes in the main parameters of the Botanical Garden’s structural and functional organization under the influence of adverse external factors. It is shown how, in the context of the crisis caused by the war, which led to a shortage of resources for scientific activities, the areas of research and educational work were transformed, and the composition and structure of the Botanical Garden’s plant collections, as well as the number and organizational structure of its scientific and auxiliary staff, changed. Special attention is paid to the personality of K.I. Meyer, who headed the Botanical Garden in 1940–1948.
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Golikov, K.A.
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Botanical Garden, Moscow University, Great Patriotic War (1941–1945), K.I. Meyer, history of science.
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Golikov, K.A., “Botanical Garden of Moscow University during the Great Patriotic War”, Zhizn Zemli [Life of the Earth] 47, no 3, 438–448 (2025) (in Russ., abstr. in Engl.). DOI: 10.29003/m4747.0514-7468.2025_47_3/438-448.
Botanical Garden of Moscow University during the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945)
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- Bertalanffy, L., “General Theory of Systems – A Critical Review”, General Systems VII, 1–20 (1962).
- Bogdanov, A.A., Tektology: Universal Organizational Science. In 2 vols (Moscow: Ekonomika, 1989) (in Russian).
- Biological Faculty of the Lomonosov MSU (Moscow: KMK, 2005) (in Russian).
- Novikov, V.S., et al. (eds.), Botanical Garden of the faculty of Biology of Moscow University. 1706–2011: the first scientific Botanical institution in Russia (Moscow: KMK, 2006) (in Russian).
- Burkov, V.N., Gubko, M.V., Korgin, N.A., Novikov, D.A., “Theory of Management of Organizational Systems and Other Sciences on the Management of Organizations”, Management Issues 4, 2–10 (2012) (in Russian).
- Volkov, V.A., and Kulikova, M.V., Moscow Professors of the 18th – Early 20th Centuries: Natural Sciences and Engineering. Ed. by S.S. Ilizarov (Moscow: Janus-K; Moskovskie uchebniki i Kartolitografiya, 2003) (in Russian).
- Golikov, K.A., “Scientists of the I.N. Gorozhankin School in bio-bibliographic essays by K.I. Meyer”, Zhizn Zemli 46 (2), 232–242 (2024) (in Russian).
- Golikov, K.A., “Scientist, science organizer and home front worker Konstantin Ignatievich Meyer (1881–1965)”, People of Moscow University on the fronts and in the rear of the Great Patriotic War: a collective monograph. Ed. by V.A. Sadovnichiy (336–349) (Moscow: MGU, 2025)
- Lotova, L.I., et al. (eds.), Department of Higher Plants is 200 Years Old! Educational and Methodological Guide (Moscow: KMK, 2004) (in Russian).
- Kudryashov, L.V., “K.I. Meyer (on the seventieth anniversary of his birth)”, Bull. MOIP. Biol. 56 (6), 78–83 (1951) (in Russian).
- Kudryashov, L.V., “Konstantin Ignatievich Meyer (5/V 1881 – 19/III 1965)”, Morphology of Plants: Collection of Articles Dedicated to the Memory of Professor K.I. Meyer. USSR Academy of Sciences. Ed. by A.N. Sladkov (Moscow: Nauka, 1967) (in Russian).
- Leonov, M.V., Novikov, V.S., «Electronic bio-bibliographic disk “Russian botanist K.I. Mey er”», 50 years without K.I. Meyer: XIII Moscow Meeting on plant phylogeny: Proc. of Int. Conf. (February 2–6, 2015, Moscow). Ed. by A.K. Timonin (Moscow: MAKS Press, 2015) (in Russian).
- Lipshits, S.Yu., Baranov, P.A., “Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of Konstantin Ignatievich Meyer”, Botanicheskiy zhurnal 41 (9), 1389–1400 (1956) (in Russian).
- Martin, N., England, J., Mathematical theory of entropy. Ed. by G.-C. Rota (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1981).
- Meyer, K.I., “Botanical Garden”, Scientific notes of Moscow University. Anniversary series 54, 332–339 (1940) (in Russian).
- Meyer, K.I., “Ivan Nikolaevich Gorozhankin and his role in the development of Russian botany (1848–1904)”, Remarkable scientists of Moscow University 38 (Moscow: MGU, 1966) (in Russian).
- Serebryakov, I.G., “Konstantin Ignatievich Meyer – an Outstanding Soviet Plant Morphologist (on the 80th Anniversary of His Birth)”, Bull. MOIP. Sec. Biol. 66 (4), 5–12 (1961) (in Russian).
- Skabichevsky, A.P., “Professor K.I. Meyer’s Research on the vegetation and flora of the algae of Lake Baikal”, Bull. MOIP. Sec. Biol. 71 (2), 17–27 (1966) (in Russian).
- Timonin, A.K., “Preface”, 50 years without K.I. Meyer: XIII Moscow Meeting on plant phylogeny: Proc. of Int. Conf. (February 2–6, 2015, Moscow). Ed. by A.K. Timonin (Moscow: MAKS Press, 2015) (in Russian).
- Tikhomirov, V.N., “Konstantin I. Meyer, Classic of Russian botany (on the anniversary of his death)”, Bull. MOIP. Sec. Biol. 71 (2), 5–16 (1966) (in Russian).
- Chernysheva, L.Yu., “Meyer, Konstantin Ignatievich”, Chronicle of Moscow University (https://letopis.msu.ru/peoples/979?ysclid=m4zqdalb5z655714767) (in Russian).
- Packard, N.H., Adaptation toward the Edge of Chaos (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Center for Complex Systems Research, 1988)