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Danila Ivanov: In Vino Veritas, or the Story of the Invincible Vine
V–A–C Sreda online magazine presents a special New Year’s issue dedicated to wine studies produced in collaboration with Danila Ivanov, a sociologist, wine researcher, member of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Higher School of Economics, and participant in the GES-2 House of Culture grant programme.
We publish a text by Danila, in which he describes a little-known yet significant episode in the history of winemaking: the attempts of Soviet scientists to create an independent foundation for viticulture, free from the European tradition, through the cultivation of the frost-resistant Amur grapevine. At the centre of the text is the breeder Alexander Potapenko, who demonstrated the viability of Vitis amurensis and made northern winemaking possible.