Georgy Nikolayevich Dorogin, a mycologist and plant pathologist, was born in St Petersburg on 23 June 1878. In 1902 he graduated from the St Petersburg Forestry Institute and, in 1905, started work as a trainee at the Central Plant Pathology Station of the Botanic Garden, followed from 1907 by a position in the Bureau on Mycology & Plant Pathology of the Scientific Committee of the Agricultural Department (later the All-Union Institute of Plant Protection), in which he was a scientific expert till the end of his life. From 1922 onwards, he headed the Plant Pathology Department of the Northern Regional Station of Plant Protection.

In 1909, G.N. Dorogin also work on the junior teaching staff at St Petersburg (Stebutovskiye) Agricultural School. The School was then re-organized as the Stebut Agricultural Academy, where G.N. Dorogin taught plant pathology from 1921 onwards. Then, from 1922 to 1932 he headed the Chair of Plant Pathology of the Institute of Applied Zoology & Plant Pathology.

During his first period of work (1910-1915) Dorogin dealt mainly with forest mycology, publicising ita significance for the efficient development of forestry. He published articles on diseases of elm, oak, pine and other woody plants, and on certain fungi found in houses. He also devoted much attention to diseases of gooseberries.

During his second period of work (roughly from 1915 onwards) Dorogin mainly studied diseases of vegetable crops (celery, onion, potatoes, cabbage etc.) and measures to combat them. He also studied diseases of seeds, a topic in which he was a pioneers researcher, and ergot, for which he devised an instrument to determine its contamination of flour. Dorogin had a particular interest in diseases and conditions of storage of potatoes and, in 1926, produced a series of plant pathology posters and the manual Plant diseases. He died in Leningrad [St Petersburg] on 5 February 1932.

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