I don't think this is a great piece of writing as it doesn't really say much about these people's legacy. Only the legacy of one man through his entire career.
Hard to find (shouldn't be). This 1992 WaPo article names the 9 who starved (starting with Stchukin). Also mentions that under duress these people smuggled seeds out of Leningrad to storage in the Ural mountains.
This Springer article goes into great detail on the Pavlovsk Experimental Station's history
"by 1934 Vavilov had founded over 400 research institutes, with staffing requirements of 20,000"
Alexanyan, S. M. & Krivchenko, V. I. Vavilov Institute scientists heroically
preserve world plant genetic resources collections during World War II siege
of Leningrad. Diversity 7, 10–13 (1991).
I don't think this is a great piece of writing as it doesn't really say much about these people's legacy. Only the legacy of one man through his entire career.