Russian botanist Andrej Federov was Editor in Chief of the Flora of Russia and director of the Komarov Botanical Institute Laboratory of Systematics. He was also curator of the Institute's Caucasian herbarium and editor of the Flora of the Caucasus.

Born in Tver (known as Kalinin from 1931-1990), he graduated from the Tver Pedagogical Institute in 1929. He then began work in the Sukhumi division of the All-Union Institute of Plant Growing and in 1935 moved to the Armenian branch of the Academy of Sciences. From 1945 he was a member of staff at the Komarov Botanical Institute in St. Petersburg, where he was made director of the laboratory in 1963. Fedorov's brother, Alexander Fedorov, was director of the Institute.

As well as his work on the Flora of Russia, Fedorov was a co-author of Grasses of the Soviet Union (with N.N. Tzvelev, 1983) and Oaks of Asia (2005, with Y.L. Menitsky). He was also an authority on the Campanulaceae family and tropical Asian plants.

Fedorov conducted collecting expeditions to tropical south-west China in 1955-1957 with I.A. Linchevsky and M.E. Kiricznikov and to Sumbawa, Indonesia in 1961. He was the only Soviet taxonomist to attend the 1964 10th International Botanical Congress in Edinburgh.

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D.V. Lebedev, and P.D. Sokolov, 1977, "Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Fedorov", Botanicheskii zhurnal, 62(2)
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