In 1871 after graduating from the university of Novorossiysk [Odesa, Ukraine], Nikolay Konstantinovich Sredinsky stayed on as a professor's scholar [postgraduate student] in botany. Working for the Chair of Botany from 1871 to 1874, he carried out a number of floristic investigations of Novorossijsk krai [Odesa, Mikolaiv and Kherson oblasts of Ukraine] and Bessarabia [Republic of Modova] and described numerous flowering plants and cryptogams. In 1872 he published an account of the fungi of Novorossijsk krai and Bessarabia. The work was, for that time, of considerable stature from the point of view of both area of land covered and the number of species treated: 240 in all. In 1874, he passed his master's degree examination. The remainder of his working life was devoted to plantations on railway land.

Lists. Taxa. Kirk & Ansell form of name: Sred.