Russian botanist at the Imperial Botanic Garden in St. Petersburg. Boris Fedtschenko was instigative in the huge Flora SSSR project and conducted fieldwork in Central Asia during the 1920s. Head of the botanic garden's herbarium from 1902 he was responsible for editing its periodical from its inception in 1919. In this role Fedtschenko began to organise botanists around the country in contributing to a flora of the USSR in 1930, and the following year the project was approved. In 1931, however, the botanic garden and the Imperial Botanical Museum merged to form what is now the Komarov Botanical Institute. Vladimir Komarov himself was head of the museum and, as such, outranked Fedtschenko, taking over responsibility for the Flora SSSR and becoming its editor-in-chief. Eventually the thirty-volume flora was completed and published in 1964; covering some 17,500 species, it represented a huge step forwards for botany in Russia. The species Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi Raym.-Hamet and H.Perrier was named after him. Boris Fedtschenko was the son of botanists Olga and Aleksei Fedtschenko.

Sources:
S.G. Shetler, 1967, The Komarov Botanical Institute.