Russian botanist (1869-1941).
Nikolai Adolfovich Busch (Николай Адольфович Буш; 1869 – 1941) was a Russian / Soviet botanist. He was a leading expert on the flora of the Caucasus and read lectures at the Leningrad State University. Busch was born in Slobodskoy, where his father worked as a forester. He graduated from Kazan University in 1891 and later pursued further studies at the Forestry Institute in St. Petersburg. Between 1888 and 1890, he travelled in the Caucasus as an assistant of N. I. Kuznetsov, collecting an extensive herbarium. Between 1894 and 1911, he conducted eleven expeditions to the Caucasus, along with a