The Central Experimental Station of Applied Botany and Selection (the fiirst experimental station of the All-Union Institute of Plant Cultivation) was opened in Moscow Road (its present address is the house no. 11). Nikolay Ivanovich Vavilov, a scientist-geneticist, member of the Academy, the Head of the All-Union Institute of Plant Cultivation, was in charge of the station untill 1940 (the year of his arrest). Vavilov's summer flat was in the house no.27 in Moscow Road, where the memorial plaque was placed on 7 February 2003.
The new electric substation, which supplyed the town with electricity in full, was built in Tsarskoye Selo under the leading of the engineer V.A. Lebedev and the team leader R.I. Ilyin.
The famous anthology of Russian poets "Tsraskoye Selo v poezii ("Tsarskoye Selo in Poetry") by E.F Gollerbach was issued in the "Parfenon" Pablishing House, his books "Sobraniye Paley v Detskom Sele" ("Paley's Collection in Detskoye Selo"), "Detskoselskiye dvortsi I parki" ("Palaces and Parks of Detskoye Selo") were published in the same year.
20 October. The museum values, which were evacuated to Moscow in September 1917 in connection with the threat of plundering during the Civil War years, were returned from the Great Kremlin Palace to Tsarskoye Selo.
Persons
Hollerbach Erich Fedorovich Iliyn, R.I. Lebedev, V.A. Matrosov, Ivan Konstantinovich Vavilov Nikolay Ivanovich
Addresses
Moskovskoe Freeway/Pushkin, town, house 11 Moskovskoe Freeway/Pushkin, town
