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The inspiring scientists who saved the world's first seed bank by Simon Parkin.

Somewhere in the sky above, the mosquito drone of a plane's propeller neared. Since Abram Kamaras had begun to commute by train from Meningrad, now St. Petersburg,

to the suburban town of Pavlovsk earlier in the summer of 1941, attacks by enemy planes

had become a frequent cause of delay. Through the carriage window, Cameras saw the road was littered with bodies.

These men, women and children had been killed by German planes,

which had strafed and bombed the crowds of refugees as they fled towards the city.

As Cameras caught the silhouette of a German

Stuka cresting the horizon, the driver stopped the train and ordered the passengers to run to a nearby

ditch for cover. Cameras, 36, was a potato specialist, one of about 50 botanists who worked at the Plant

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