Yuriy Pavlovich Yudin. 110 years from the birthday
Yuriy Pavlovich Yudin - great scientist and botanist, who devoted his whole life to studying the vegetation of the Komi ASSR. Being the student of the Leningrad University he actively participated in scientific expeditions to the Russian European North and proved himself as outstanding researcher of the nature. In 1933, upon completion of the University, Y.P. Yudin began his scientific research in the Komi Republic, worked in geobotanical expeditions in Northern and Polar Urals, Bolshezemelskaya tundra, the Pechora and Vychegda basins. Before the II World War he provided phytocoenological studies in the Tadjik SSR, in the North Caucasus, Kola Peninsula and West Siberia. He also participated in the creation of a vegetation map of the European part of the USSR. Y.P. Yudin participated in the creation of a geobotanical map and vegetation map of the Komi ASSR, developed the scheme of geobotanical zoning of Komi and defined the borders of vegetation subzones. He was the ideological inspirer of the creation of the monograph «Flora of the Komi ASSR», prepared material for the publication «Determinant of forest types of the Komi Republic». He personally wrote the phytocoenological sections in the monograph «Productive forces of the Komi Republic». Y.P. Yudin defended his candidate thesis named «Dark coniferous forests of the Komi ASSR (geobotanical description)», in which he paid particular attention to the forest typology. He especially interested in limestone relic plant complexes that he studied for some years of his short life. The monograph «Relic flora of limestones in the USSR European Northeast» devoted to these complexes was published after his dead. Y.P. Yudin had extraordinary working capacity, unflagging interest in his work and selfless service to Russian science. He participated in the II World War where was wounded twice and was rewarded with battle awards.