Register of the Basil M. Bensin Papers
Prepared by Anatol Shmelev
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
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© 2003
Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Register of the Basil M. Bensin Papers
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Contact Information
- Hoover Institution Archives
- Stanford University
- Stanford, California 94305-6010
- Phone: (650) 723-3563
- Fax: (650) 725-3445
- Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu
- Prepared by:
- Anatol Shmelev
- Date Completed:
- 2001
- Encoded by:
- ByteManagers using OAC finding aid conversion service specifications
© 2003 Hoover Institution Archives. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
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.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Basil M. Bensin Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired.
Location of Originals
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
Biographical Note
| 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 |
Scope and Content Note
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.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Agriculture.
Russians--United States.
Russia.
United States.
Container List
Box 1
Biographical File, 1945-1951.
Scope and Content Note
Articles, award, bibliographies, clippings and family file, arranged alphabetically by physical form
Box/Folder 1 : 1
Articles about B. M. Bensin.
Scope and Content Note
Includes entry from
International Who's Who, 1948 June
Box/Folder 1 : 3
Bibliographies of works published
Box/Folder 1 : 4
Clippings about or mentioning B. M. Bensin
Box/Folder 1 : 5
Bensen, Igor Vasil'evich (son).
Note
See also PHOTOGRAPHS
Scope and Content Note
Biographical materials.
Box/Folder 1 : 6
Benzin, A. M. (brother?).
Scope and Content Note
Clipping and description of his inventions
Box/Folder 1 : 7
Correspondence, 1970.
Scope and Content Note
One greeting card sent to N. A. Slobodchikov
Box 1
Speeches and Writings, 1913-1952.
Scope and Content Note
Articles and books, arranged chronologically by title
Box/Folder 1 : 8
"Agricultural Self-Sufficiency Possible in Alaska,"
Ketchikan Alaska Chronicle, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box/Folder 1 : 9
"Agroecology: Basic Science of Agriculture," n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Typescript
Box/Folder 1 : 10
"Arctic Coldframes with Miracle Solar Reflectors for Northern Climates," n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box/Folder 1 : 11
"Arctic Solar Reflectors for Northern Climates," n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box/Folder 1 : 12
"K istorii vozniknoveniia i razvitiia nauki agroekologii," n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Holograph
Box/Folder 1 : 13
"'Russkii sokol:' Ego zadachi i tsieli v Amerikie," n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box/Folder 1 : 14
Izuchenie zasukhoustoichivykh ras sel'sko-khoziaistvennykh rastenii, 1913.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box/Folder 1 : 15
Sel'skoe khoziaistvo i kooperatsiia v S.-Amerikie, 1923.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box/Folder 1 : 16
Shkola i sel'skoe khoziaistvo, 1924.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box/Folder 1 : 17
"O siemenakh i o posievie," and "Zasukhi i neurozhai v Rossii,"
Kalendar' dlia russkikh zemlediel'tsev na 1925 god, 1925.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box/Folder 1 : 18
"Polevyia kul'tury Iuga i Iugo-Vostoka Rossii,"
Kalendar' dlia russkikh zemlediel'tsev na 1926 god, 1926.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box/Folder 1 : 19
"Agroecological Studies of Maize Plant," Program of a lecture, 1930.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box/Folder 1 : 20
"Agroecological Exploration in the Soto La Marina Region, Mexico,"
The Geographical Review, 1935 April.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box/Folder 1 : 21
"The Future of Orthodoxy in America,"
Russian Orthodox Journal, 1945.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box/Folder 1 : 22
"Problems of Agricultural Microclimatology in Alaska,"
Farthest North Collegian, 1950 March.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box/Folder 1 : 23
"Agroecological World Geography,"
Biologia, 1951.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box/Folder 1 : 24
"Growing Warm Season Vegetables in Alaska," 1951 May.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box/Folder 1 : 25
"Arctic Cold Frames for Northern Climates," 1952.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box/Folder 1 : 26
"Coal Dust for Alaskan Gardens," 1952.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box/Folder 1 : 27
"Warm Season Vegetables in Alaska," 1952.
Scope and Content Note
Printed copy
Box 1
Subject File, 1924-1937.
Scope and Content Note
Clippings, receipt and printed matter arranged alphabetically by subject
Box/Folder 1 : 28
Alaska.
Scope and Content Note
Travel guides, brochures, railroad timetables, and receipt from Bensin's travels
Box/Folder 1 : 29
Athletic clubs.
Scope and Content Note
Materials on Czech and Russian Sokol organizations in Czechoslovakia and the United States
Box 1
Photographs, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Three prints of B. M. Bensin and five of Igor Bensen and his gyrocopters
Box/Folder 1 : 30
Bensin, B. M.
Scope and Content Note
Three prints
Box/Folder 1 : 31
Bensen, Igor V.
Scope and Content Note
Five prints of him and his gyrocopters
