employees of the institute of plant genetic resources working in the institute's seed bank
although internationally respected and head of the soviet agricultural academy for six years, vavilov was arrested in 1940 in a probe based on fabricated evidence that he was seeking to undermine soviet agriculture. he died of malnutrition in prison three years later and his name was erased from soviet science until stalin's successor nikita khrushchev, also a supporter of lysenko, lost political power and vavilov was rehabilitated under leonid brezhnev in the 1960s. a portrait of vavilov now hangs proudly in the institute, while russia's institute of general genetics in moscow also bears his name. the collection miraculously survived world war ii and particularly the siege of leningrad, when starving scientists kept guard over the vast seed stocks to prevent them being eaten during food shortages.
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