> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 293](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33259797) of TL-2 Suppl. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2806-1) LSID 2806-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555277) QID Q555277 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Fomin, Aleksandr Vasilievich|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Fomin, Aleksandr \[Aleksander\] Vasilievich \[Vasiljevich, Vasilevich, Vasilevitch, Wasiljewitsch, Wassiljewitsch\] (1869-1935), Russian botanist (pteridologist), born 2 Mai 1869 in Yermolovka, Saratov, first asst., Botanical Garden, Univ. of Yuryev (or Dorpat) (now Univ. of Tartu, Estonia) 1896, Dr. Sci. Nat., prof. of botany 1913 and dir. of the botanic garden, both Kiev (now Ukraine), died 16 Oct 1935 in Kiev. **Abbreviated name**: *Fomin* \[standard form in IPNI: *Fomin*\] #### Herbarium and types Russia: [[Collection B|B]] (344 Lich.), [[Collection KW|KW]], [[Collection TB|TB]], [[Collection TU|TU]]. #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 205; Barnhart 1: 554; Biol.-Dokum. 6: 70.306-70.307; Bossert p. 129; CSP 15: 43; Frodin ed. 2: 632, 675; Hirsch p. 86; Hortus 3: 1193; IF suppl. 1: 81, 3: 209, 4: 321, 354; IH 2: 201; Kew 2: 298; MW p. 122 (as "Fomin, A.W."); Nordstedt suppl. p. 6 (as "Fomin, W."); Portr. 1: 61 (index), 3: 437 (as "Aleksander Vasilevich"); TL-2/1: 851, 2/2: 953 (index); Tucker 1: 253; Zander ed. 10: 659, ed. 11: 750, ed. 17: 948. #### Biofile - Anon., Intl. address book botanists: 469. 1931; Nature 136: 747. 1935. - Bordzilovskii, E.I., 1936. Sovetsk. Bot. 1936(1): 137-146. (bibl. \[89 titles\]) - Bordzilovskii, E.I et al. (eds.), 1936. Flora URSR/Flora RSS Ucr. 1: dedication. (portr.) - Bush, N.\[A.\], 1935. Priroda Akad. Nauk SSSR 1935(11): 95-96. (portr.) - Bush, N.A., 1936. Sovestsk. Botanika 1936(1): 134-137. (portr.) - Charpin, A. & J. Timbal, 2007. Acta Bot. Gallica 154: 448. (as "Alexandr") - Dörfler, I., 1902. Botaniker-Adressbuch, ed. 2: 175. (as "Alexander Wassiljewitsch"); 1909. Id., ed. 3: 248. (as "Alexander Wasiljewitsch"; Botanischer Garten, Tiflis) - Kholodnyi, N.G. (ed.), 1938. Zbyrnik prats prysviachenyi pamiati akademika O.V. Fomina \[=Symposium dedicated to the memory of A.V. Fomin, acad. mem.\], Kiev (Izd-vo Akademii nauk USSR): 377 p. (bibl. \[88 titles, p. 22-30\], biogr. \[p. 7-18\], portr. \[frontisp.\]) - Mikhailova, O.O., 1974. Ukrayinsk. Bot. Zhurn. 31: 393. - Zerov, D.K., 1936. Ukrayinsk. Bot. Zhurn. 15: 3-5. (portr.) - Zerov, D.K., 1971. Ukrayinsk. Bot. Zhurn. 28: 560-564. (portr.) #### Eponymy *Fominia* Girzitska (1927); and Acad. A.V. Fomin Botanical Gardens of the T.G. Shevchenko State Univ. of Kiev. #### Composite works - (1) Co-editor with Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov (1861-1932) and Nikolai Adolfovitch Bush (1869-1941), *Flora Caucasica critica* \[=*Materialy dlia flory Kavkaza*\]... 1901-1913, 4 vols.; sole author of Cucurbitaceae and Campanulaceae (see nr. 34.973 below) and co-author with Kuznetsov and Bush, *Pteridophyta-Filicales*,... vol. 1(1): 1-248, \[i\]-xlvi. 1911-1913. - (2) Founding editor of the *Flora URSR* \[=*Flora of Ukrainian SSR*\], but died before the first vol. which he edited was published; succeeded by Eugen Ivanovitsch Bordzilovskii et al. as editors, who published 12 vols., 1936-1965 incl. a second edition of vol. 1. - (3) *Hymenophyllaceae, Polypodiaceae, Osmundaceae, Salviniaceae, Marsiliaceae* and *Ophioglossaceae in* V.L. Komarov et al. (eds.), *Fl. URSS*, vol. 1: 17-100. \[Jan\] 1934, see TL-2/2, nr. 3857. ### Publications ##### n.34.973. Cucurbitaceae **Title** *Cucurbitaceae* i *Campanulaceae flory Kavkaza*: kriticheskoe sistematichesko-geograficheskoe izsliedovanie... Iurev \[Tartu\] (Tip. K. Mattisena) 1907. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1907 (p. xviii signed 15 Mar 1907), p. \[i\]-xviii, 1-157. *Copies*: LC (n.v.), NY, UC-Berkeley (n.v.). – Issued as N.I. Kuznetsov et al., *Flora Caucasica critica* 4(6): 1-157. 1907. – Also published as a special suppl. to Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Obsc. Estestvoisp., Vyp. 3, Otd. Bot. 31(3). 1901, and Id. 34(3). 1905-1908. *Note*: Text in Russian and Latin. ##### n.34.974. Opredelitel Rastenii Kavkaza **Title** *Opredelitel Rastenii Kavkaza* i *Kryma* \[=*Identification handbook* for plants of *Caucasus* and *Crimea*\]... Tiflis (Izdanie Tiflisskago Botanicheskago Sada) 1907-1911, 2 vols. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Opredelit. Rast. Kavkaza Kryma*. **Notes** *Co-author*: Woronow \[Voronov\], Georg Jurii \[Jurij, Yuri\] Nikolaewitsch \[Nikolajevic\] (1874-1931), see IH 2: 1096 (as "Voronov"), 1186 (as "Woronow"). *Publ*. \[*Tom 1*\]: 1907 (cover-t.p.), cover-t.p., t.p., p. \[1\]-43, \[unnumb. sheet tipped in\]. *Copy*: K. *Tom 2*: 1911 (cover-t.p.), cover-t.p., t.p., p. \[1\]-112. *Copy*: K. *Note*: (1) The bibl. published in Kholodnyi (1938, nrs. 38 & 49) gives 1909 as the publication date for vol. 1 and 1911 for vol. 2. (2) Frodin (ed. 2: 675) gives 1907-1919 and states that this work was abandoned in the wake of W.W.-I. (3) J.L. Reveal (in litt.) gives 2-9 Apr 1908 as date for vol. 1, but offered no rationale for these dates. ##### n.34.975. Polystichum **Title** Obzor vidor roda *Polystichum* na *Kavkaze* \[=Übersicht der *Polystichum-Arten* im *Kaukasus*\]... \[Vestn. Tiflissk Bot. Sada... 1909\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1909, p. \[3\]-40. *Copies*: G, WU. – Reprinted and to be cited from Vestn. Tiflissk. Bot. Sada 15: 3-40. 1909. *Note*: Text in Russian and German. ##### n.34.976. Paporotnikoobraznyi **Title** Vypusk 5. *Paporotnikoobraznyi*... *Flora Sibiri* i dalniego vostoka, izdavaemaia Botanicheskim muzeem Akademii nauk SSSP \[=*Filices*... *Flora Sibiriae* et Orientis Extremi a Museo Botanico Academicae Scientiarum Petropolitanae edita\]... Leningrad \[(Tipografiia Akademii Nauk SSR)\] 1930. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*. \[*Vypusk 5*\]: 1930 (p. \[iv\] signed 30 Mai 1930), cover-t.p., p. \[i-v\], \[1\]-218. *Copies*: B, HH (n.v.), U, US(2). *Note*: (1) Text in Russian and Latin. (2) Although this is the only part of the flora authored by Fomin, there were at least five other parts published 1913-1931, most of which were authored by Bush, Nicolai Adolfovitch (1869-1941), see TL-2/1: 420 and IH 2: 109 (as "Busch, Nicolaj Adolfowitsch"). ##### n.34.977. Flora Ukrainy **Title** *Flora Ukrainy*. I, *Pteridophyta* \[=*Flora Ukrainica*. I, *Pteridophyta*\]... Kiivi \[Kiev\] (Akademiia nauk Ukrainskoi RSR) 1926. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1926 (p. \[1\] signed 5 Mai 1926), cover-t.p., \[i-iv\], \[1\]-71, \[i\]-xviii, *pl. 1-4* (uncol. draw.) \[included in paging, i.e. p. vii-x\], map (col., fold.). *Copies*: NY (n.v.), USDA. – Issued as Trudy Fiz.-Mat. Vidd. 2(1). 1926. *Note*: (1) Text in Ukrainian. (2) This flora was abandoned after the first fascicle due to policy changes and the author's increasing commitments to the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (*fide* Frodin, ed. 2: 632). ##### n.34.978. Holonasinnovi Kavkazu **Title** *Holonasinnovi Kavkazu* ta *Krymu* \[=*Gymnospermen* des *Kaukasus* und der *Krim*\] ... Kiiv... 1928. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1928, cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-62, \[loose page, "Addenda"\], map (part. col., fold.). *Copies*: HH(2), K (n.v.). – Reprinted and to be cited from Trudy Fiz.-Mat. Vidd. 11(1): 1-62, map. 1928. *Note*: Text in Russian and Latin. ##### n.34.979. Novyi **Title** *Novyi* vid *Kolokolchika* iz *zapadnogo Zakavkazia* \[=A *new Campanula* from *western Transcaucasia*\]... Acta Instituti Botanici Academiae Scientiarum URSS... 1936. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1936, p. \[289\]-291. *Copies*: K, USDA (in journal). – Reprinted and to be cited from Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Ser. 1, Fl. Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 3: 289-291. 1936. *Note*: Text in Russian and Latin, with a summary (p. 291) in English.