Boris Uvarov

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sir Boris Petrovitch Uvarov, KCMG (born 1889, Uralsk - died 1970, London) was a Russian-British entomologist. Boris Petrovitch Uvarov was son of Pyotr P. Uvarov, a state bank employee, and his wife, Aleksandra. He studied biology in the University of St. Petersburg, graduating in 1910. He worked as entomologist in Stavropol and put locust control on a sound scientific basis. From 1915 he worked in Tiflis, which after the Russian revolution of 1917 had become the capital of the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia. Starting in 1945, Dr. Uvarov and his small team received official designation as the Anti-Locust Research Centre. During the next fourteen years, the Centre developed into the foremost laboratory in the world for research on locusts. He made important contributions areas of taxonomy, population biology and locust control.