Heritage
Alfred Alekseyevich Kolakovsky
1906–1997 · botanist and palaeobotanist
My great-grandfather’s cousin studied living and fossil plants. Much of his scientific work concerned the Caucasus and Abkhazia: their flora, plant communities and the history of plant life.
Plant life and its history
His work covers descriptions of plants and the development of plant landscapes. It includes Flora of Abkhazia, The Plant Life of Colchis and The Plant Landscapes of Abkhazia and the History of Their Development. Kolakovsky also contributed to a book about the Pitsunda–Myussera Nature Reserve.
His author abbreviation in the International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is Kolak. It accompanies botanical names that he published.
Scientific publications
«Фитоландшафты Абхазии и история их развития». Dissertation theses for the degree of Doctor of Biological Sciences. Tbilisi: Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences, 1947. 13 pp.
«Флора Абхазии». Том 3. 1948. 331 pp.
«Растительный мир Колхиды». Moscow University Press, 1961. 460 pp., 62 leaves of illustrations.
Russian State Library record · National Electronic Library record
«Пицунда-Мюссерский заповедник». Co-authored; edited by S. M. Bebiya. Moscow: Agropromizdat, 1987.