Veniamin Sergeevich Bakhtin, a mycologist and plant pathologist, was born in St Petersburg on 31 March 1888. He was Professor of Samara Agricultural Institute, then worked in Leningrad [St Petersburg] at the Laboratory of Mycology & Plant Pathology of the State Institute of Experimental Agronomy. A.A. Yachevsky worked there at the same time. Bakhtin was initially appointed there as a senior laboratory assistant and later rose to senior scientist. He also worked as a lecturer at the Leningrad [St Petersburg] Institute of Fibre Crops, and at the Institute of Applied Zoology & Plant Pathology. Bakhtin studied systematics of the Peronosporales. He also studied parasitic fungi, mainly from Samara province, diseases of cultivated plants, and fungi causing biodeterioration books (Stachybotrys, Chaetomium etc.). In 1933, he collected mycological material in Narym krai.

Summarized from the account of S. Bakhtin in Russian Botanists (Botanists of Russia - USSR). Biographic-Bibliographic Dictionary. Moscow: Moscow Society of Naturalists.

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