 Nikolai Schipczinsky

Nikolai Valerianovich Schipczinsky (1886-1955) was a Russian and Soviet botanist and taxonomist, who was director of the Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden in 1934-1938 and 1942-1948 respectively.Schipczinsky was born in 1886 in Helsinki, Finland, the son of an accountant quartermaster and a housewife.