only one russian scientist, nikolai ivanovich vavilov, can compare with vasily dakuchaev.uring his short life, vavilov discovered the law of homological series, the most important law biology, made 180 expeditions, learned 15 languages. visited 65 countries on all continents, he set himself the grandiose task of ridding humanity of hunger. each of us sees the meaning of life in doing more, blazing a deeper path, and passing on what we have done and accumulated to the country to which we are devoted. an outstanding russian geneticist, biologist, breeder, as every scientist on the planet knows, nikolai vavilov was born in moscow into a merchant family on november 25 , 1887. while still a student at moscow agricultural institute, today the temeryazev academy, nikolai vavilov became interested in plant immunity and growing the most resistant varieties. he was looking for resistant forms to various diseases, especially in the first place. for grain crops, his most important object, which he dealt with all his life, was wheat, mainly soft wheat, which gives us bread. vavilov dre