Nikolai Vavilov was not only physically eliminated, but his manuscripts were also burned 70 years ago, on August 6, 1940, in Chernivtsi, during a scientific expedition to Western Ukraine, Academician Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, director of the All-Union Institute of Plant Growing in Leningrad and the Institute of Genetics of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow, was arrested, ...