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Title: Basil M. Bensin papers,
Date (inclusive): 1913-1970
Collection number: 2001C60
Creator:
Bensin, Basil M.
Extent:
1 microfilm reel
(0.15 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Speeches and writings, biographical data, and photographs, relating to agriculture, especially in northern climates, and to
Russian émigré affairs.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
English,
and Russian.
Collection is open for research.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Basil M. Bensin Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired.
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
| 1881 January 30 (O.S.) | Born, Russia |
| 1912 | M. S., Agricultural Sciences, University of Minnesota |
| Returned to Russia | |
| 1913 | Author, Izuchenie zasukhoustoichivykh ras sel'sko-khoziaistvennykh rastenii |
| 1923 | Author, Sel'skoe khoziaistvo i kooperatsiia v S.-Amerikie |
| 1924 | Author, Shkola i sel'skoe khoziaistvo |
| 1930 | Arrived in the United States |
| 1945-1948 | Agronomist, Alaska Agricultural Experiment Station |
| Instructor, University of Alaska |
Basil M. Benzin (Vasilii Mitrofanovich Benzin) was an agricultural expert active in Russia (to 1920), Czechoslovakia (1921-1930)
and the United States (1910-1912 and 1930 to his death). The collection includes his written works on varioua aspects of agronomy
and its economic organization, as well as a file of unique materials on the history of Russian Sokol organizations in Europe
and the United States (SUBJECT FILE/Athletic clubs). Also interesting are the files on his son's (Igor Bensen) career as an
engineer for General Electric and inventor of flying contraptions (BIOGRAPHICAL FILE/Family file/Bensen, Igor, and PHOTOGRAPHS/Bensen,
Igor).
Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also
provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Archives. The original materials remain in the Museum of Russian
Culture, San Francisco as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is available at the
Hoover Institution Archives.
The Hoover Institution assumes all responsibility for notifying users that they must comply with the copyright law of the
United States (Title 17 United States Code) and Hoover Rules for the Use and Reproduction of Archival Materials.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
Agriculture.
Russians--United States.
Russia.
United States.