MINIBAYEV, Rufil Gafarovich

MINIBAYEV, Rufil Gafarovich (18.9.1931, Derevnya Aybulyak of Yanaulsky Raion of the BASSR – 20.6.2013, Ufa), Botanist and Ecologist. Merited Acad. of the AS RB (1998), Dr.Nat.Sci. (Biological Sciences) (1969), Full Professor (1970). Merited Master of Sciences of the RB (1977), Excellent Worker of Higher Education of the USSR (1981), Merited Worker of Higher Professional Education of the RF (1999). Graduated from the Kazan Teacher’s Training Institute (1954). Since 1963 worked in the BSU: between 1970–75 and 1980–91 as Dean of Department of Biology. He researched soil seaweed, weed plants, flora of botanical nature monuments, resources of beneficial plants and their protection. The founder of the scientific school of soil algology. One of the authors of The Field Guide of Higher Plants of Bashkir ASSR (1988), Brief Field Guide of Seaweeds of Bashkortostan (1996). He was Chairman of the Bashkir division of the Russian Botanical Society between 1970–2013.