A Russian scientists was so hungry one day that he was close to starving, but the issue was that he was surrounded by food.When the Nazis were invading Leningrad, in 1941, they decided to cut off all the city’s Food Supplies but as everyone soon began desperately scrambling for food a group of scientists just refused to eat anything. Even though they had access to more food than they could ever need.

These scientists worked at the Pavlosk Experimental Station, the world’s very first seed bank.

Over the past few decades a Russian geneticist named Nikolai Vavilov had managed to collect more than 380,000 different seeds, grains and fruits from around the the world.Nikolai had seen millions of people die from starvation because of crop killing droughts, insects and disease. So, he vowed to dedicate his life to getting rid of these famines for Good by improving biodiversity and genetically engineering stronger crops. That’s why he gathered more than a thousand varieties of strawberries and 600 varieties of apples.