Nikolay Vavilov
Stuck in Soviet Prison
On this day in 1941, a Soviet court sentenced the prominent Russian botanist Nikolay Vavilov to death by firing squad.
Vavilov never faced the firing squad. Instead, he died of starvation in a Soviet prison two years after receiving his sentence.
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Nikolay Vavilov
