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1) Сколько букв, в среднем, представляет суффикс единственного, а сколько букв - множественного числа?

2) Какая буква составляет суффикс большинства слов латинского происхождения во множественном числе?

IV. 1. Прочитайте и переведите тексты о факультетах Университета.

The Agronomy Faculty

The Agronomy Faculty and the Academy are of the same age. They were both founded in 1865.

The Agronomy Faculty trains learned agronomist in specialities: agronomy with agribusiness specializations, crop and fodder production technology of crop storage and processing, crop selection and genetics with specialization in biotechnology, plant protection.

The Faculty has 14 departments: agriculture and experimental methods, plant production, meadow cultivation, plant physiology, biotechnology, selection and seed production of field crops, genetics, chemical means of plant protection, phytopathology, entomology, the technology of field crop production storage and processing, meteorology, agricultural machines and tractors. There are also 6 research laboratories and observatory.

There are 4 academicians and 2 corresponding members of the Russian Agricultural Academy, 32 professors and Doctors of Science, 65 assistant professors and Masters of Science. The faculty trains over 600 students and post-graduates.

The universally trained graduates can apply their knowledge and skills in the system of agro industrial complex and other branches of economy as well.

The graduates work successfully in different branches of agro industrial complex, at Russian and foreign firms, cooperative societies, joint-stock companies, research and educational centres. The research is carried out in the following directions: 1) raising the productivity of agricultural lands and quality of crop production; 2) development of adaptive landscape system of agriculture and soil fertility management; 3) research in remote hybridization and improvement of breeding methods and zonal seed production placement; 4) development of plant biotechnology methods, raising healthy planting material; 5) improvement of crop production storage and processing and pure ecological production.

The Agricultural Chemistry, Ecology and Soil Science

The Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science Faculty was open in 1929. It was renamed into the Faculty of Soil Science, Agricultural Chemistry and Ecology in 1990.

The Faculty provides training in two specialities and with qualification of an agronomist:

- Agricultural Chemistry and Agricultural Soil Science with specialization in quality expertise and certification of agricultural objects and production; agro ecological and economic land evaluation; forest melioration of agro-landscapes and planting of greenery;

- Agro ecology with specialization in ecological expertise; ecological safety in agro-industrial complex.

The scientists of the Faculty pay great attention to the problems of land recovery from radioactive and heavy metal contamination and chemical pollution. The problems of ecologically safe production and work safety at agro-industrial enterprises are also of great importance.

The Faculty comprises the following 13 Chairs: Agricultural and Biological Chemistry, Safety Living, Geology and Landscape Science, Forestry, Melioration and Geodesy, Microbiology, Non-organic and Analytic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Soil Science, Radiology, Physics, Physical and Colloid Chemistry, and Ecology. There are eight research laboratories, including agricultural chemistry, agronomic soil science, and agro-ecology, nuclear technology in agriculture, forestry, microelements, and regulation of mineral nutrition with using polymers. Two museums namely V.R. Williams Soil and Agronomy Museum, and Mineral and Geology Museum play an important role in specialist training.

Every year about 1,100 students, including international students, study at the Faculty.

Training is provided by highly skilled faculty members, including academicians of the Russian Agricultural Academy V.I. Kirjushin and N.P. Panov, a corresponding member N.N. Dubenok, 36 professors, 72 associate professors and senior lecturers, 24 assistants, and 38 research scientists.

The faculty graduates are known for their proficient basic training and education. They are in great demand in agricultural production management bodies, design land development organizations, land banks, agro-chemical services, and agricultural firms where they can work as expert-ecologists, quality experts of food and agricultural and production, specialists in ecological expertise of land resources, as well as researchers scientists at scientific and educational institutions.

The Faculty conducts the research in the following directions: geography, genesis and soil fertility; agro-ecological land expertise; organic matter in soil; plant mineral nutrition optimization; the study of migration processes, transformation and uptake of macro-and micro elements in a soil-plant-biosphere system; the effect of heavy metals on crop yield and produce quality, soil fertility and environment; nuclear diagnostics and mobilization of biophilic elements from heavy to accessible soil forms; molecular acoustics of biological objects; and reclaimed land efficiency improvement.

A number of scientific schools have been founded at the Faculty, which have strong scientific traditions now.

The first one is the school of the soil formation and fertility conception development. Its founder is academician V.R. Williams. His successors at different time periods are academicians V.P. Bushinsky, N.P. Panov and V.I. Kirjushin; professors S.P. Yarkov, I.P. Grechin, I.S. Kaurichev, V.I. Savich, N.F. Ganzhara, N.N. Ignatiev, V.D. Naumov, R.F. Baibekov, A.D. Fokin, A.I. Karpukhin, and others.

The second school is the one of the Theory of plant nutrition and rational use of fertilizers. Its founder is academician D.N. Pryanishnikov. His successors are academicians V.M. Klechkovsky, B.Y. Yagodin and professors A.G. Shestakov, A.V. Peterbugsky, P.M. Smirnov, V.V. Kidin, I.P. Derjugin, Y.P. Zhukov, and V.A. Demin. The school of Biological forests and forest planting has the founders - professors V.T. Sobichevsky, and M.K. Tursky. Their successors are N.S. Nesterov, V.G. Nesterov, V.P. Timofeev, N.G. Vasiliev, and V.K. Khlyustov.

The school of Agricultural melioration and meliorated land efficiency improvement has the founder - academician A.N. Kostyakov. His successors are professors A.A. Cherkasov, V.V. Kolpakov, P.A. Volkovsky, an academician B.B. Shumakov and a corresponding member of the Russian Agricultural Academy N.N. Dubenok.

The chemical scientific school has the founders - professors P.A. Iljenkov, G.G. Gustafson, academicians I.A. Kablukov, N.Y. Demjanov. Their successors are professors E.N. Gapon, N.V. Williams, V.V. Williams, I.N. Zaozersky, D.A. Knyazev, G.D. Klinsky, I.I. Grandberg, V.N. Drozd, A.A. Iblev, R.A. Khmelnitsky, V.N. Knyazev, S.N. Aljeshin, N.M. Przhevalsky, S.N. Smarigin, and S.E. Starikh.

Timiryazev microbiology school has the founder - an academician N.N. Khudyakov, and his successors - an academician E.N. Mishustin, professors V.I. Butkevich, M.V. Fedorov, V.T. Emtsev, V.K. Shilnikova, O.D. Sidorenkop, and A.A. Vankova.

The school of agro-ecology has its founder  - professor V.A. Chernikov, and his successors  - professors I.M. Yashin, L.V. Mosina, and I.I. Vasenev.

The Faculty has postgraduate and doctorate programs, where 1,152 Candidates of Science and more than 150 Doctors of Science have been trained.

The Horticultural Faculty

The Horticultural Faculty originated from the Academy Garden Division in 1920.

The Faculty trains learned agronomists in specialities: Horticulture and Viticulture with specializations: horticulture, fruit growing, glasshouse vegetable growing, medicinal and volatile-oil bearing plant growing, technology of storage and initial processing and certification of fruits and vegetables, ornamental horticulture and floriculture.

The Faculty has 6 Department: botany, fruit growing, vegetable growing, viticulture, plant breeding and seed production of fruit and vegetable plants, technology of storage and processing fruits and vegetables.

The Faculty has research laboratories: vegetable growing, fruit growing, floriculture, seed hydrofobization, plant biophysics, viticulture, storage of fruits and vegetables with the using foamy materials, botanical park and dendrotogical parks named after R.I. Srifeder.

The training process is conducted by 47 faculty members, including 1 academician, 16 professors and 26 assistant professors and Masters of Science.

The main research trends are: 1) selection of high productive and good quality hybrids of cucumber, tomato, sweet paper, lettuce and other vegetables which are grown in industrial green houses and private gardens.; 2) selection of hybrids and varieties of vegetable plants and their production technology development; 3) elite and mass seed production of vegetable plants; 4) selection and reproduction of fruit plants, ornamental plants, vines; 5) improvement of active ventilation and gas storing regimes of fruits and vegetables.

During the last 10 years the faculty scientists have released over 100 varieties and hybrids of fruits, vegetables, grapes, flowers which are adapted to different climatic Russian zones. 14 white-head cabbage hybrids have been released by the faculty plant-breeders, certified by State committee and widely used in Russia and other countries.

The Animal Science Faculty

The Animal Science Faculty is one of the oldest faculties of the University. Its history goes back to 1865 when the animal husbandry section was established as a structural unit of the Agricultural Petrovskaya Agriculture and Forestry Academy Division. As a faculty it was separated in 1934 only and was named Zoo-Technical Faculty until 1976.

The Faculty history is closely connected with the one of animal science in Russia. Famous Russian scientists worked at the Faculty in different years: a professor I.N. Chernopyatov, the first Head of the Animal Husbandry Chair, the corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Science P.N. Kuleshov, professor N.L. Chervinsky, and an academician M.F. Ivanov. Academicians E.F. Liskun, I.S. Popov, S.I. Smetnev, A.P. Redkin, A.I. Nikolaev made a great contribution to the animal science development.

The scientists of the Faculty are the authors of the first Russian textbooks on animal husbandry, which are widely used by students of other Russian institutions and universities.

The Faculty offers two specialties in Animal Husbandry, and Animal Biology, and the latter offers a specialization in hunting science.

The Faculty is known for its specialized Chairs of small animal husbandry. Fourteen Chairs of small animal husbandry provide training the students as future zoo-engineers in a wide range of specializations. The following Chairs should be mentioned: Horse Breeding, Bee-Keeping, Aquaculture, Poultry, Meat and Milk Cattle Breeding, Sheep Breeding, Goat Breeding, and Pig Breeding.

Students receive basic biological training at the Chairs of Zoology, Anatomy, Animal Gystology and Embryology, Animal Physiology and Biochemistry. The Chairs of Feeding Farm Animals, Genetics and Breeding Farm Animals, Zoo-Hygiene, Obstetrics and Veterinary provide training in professional subjects. The Chair of electrification and the technological process automatization provides training in engineering.

The practical training is taken by students in training and production subdivisions of the Faculty, which are located near the educational buildings.  Thus, students can study the technologies of horse raising, feeding, and training at the Horse-Riding Hall where 17 horse breeds are kept. At the same time students-horsemen can master their equestrian skills. There is a large aquarium at the Chair of Aquaculture where students and postgraduate students conduct their research on aquarium fish and the one of economic importance. 

There is a training and production poultry farm where almost all types of poultry are kept – hens, turkeys, ducks, geese, quails, and pheasants. It helps students to master their professional skills on the living objects.  

The training apiary was organized in 1865, the same year when Petrovskaya Academy was founded. There is an open-air museum of bee-keeping on the territory of the apiary with beehives of different designs. The Mayor of Moscow Yu.M. Luzhkov presented a beehive of his own design to the apiary.

The herd of white-and-black milking cows, different pig breeds and the sheep collection herd are kept at the zoological station. The zoological station is equipped with modern milking machines and an auxiliary dairy. At this station students can study milk production and processing technologies, and also conduct experiments on animal feeding and breeding.

The students of the faculty participate at students’ scientific conferences regularly, with the best papers published in the conference proceedings. More than 40 postgraduate students study at the Faculty annually.

The Education Faculty

The Education Faculty was organized in 1925 on the basis of higher pedagogical courses and it was considered an agro-pedagogical division of the Academy for a long time. Until 1997 the Faculty provided advanced training for the lecturers of higher education agricultural institutions.

A new specialization – “professional training” was open in 1997. The main Education Faculty goal has become to train future lecturers in agriculture (Economics and Management, Agronomy, Animal Husbandry) for agricultural colleges. The Faculty trained more than 10,000 lecturers during 80 years of its existence.

The Faculty graduates are proficiently trained for teaching and other kinds of pedagogical activities at professional educational institutions of different level. They can also work as specialists in different branches of agro industrial complex. The outstanding scientists and lecturers worked at the Faculty. I.A. Kairov, and K.A. Ivanovich made a great contribution to the establishing of the Faculty and training lecturers in agriculture. At present, experienced lecturers, Doctors and Candidates of Science conduct lectures and seminars. There are three professors, more than 20 associate professors and senior lecturers among them. 

The Faculty comprises seven chairs, including education theory and psychology, law, philosophy and sociology, history, Russian language and speech culture, Foreign languages, and physical education. All Chairs are equipped with modern technical means of teaching and educational visual aids. There are several auditoriums equipped with multi-media devices, which provide wide use of information technologies. The Chairs of education theory and psychology, The Russian language and speech culture, and foreign languages use computer-based tests for intermediate and final study assessments. Audio recoding devices and video films are widely used as teaching methods in foreign language training.

International cooperation with the Dutch and German universities allowed developing and implementation of new training technologies, including a module technology into a teaching process.

Training is carried out in accordance with the State Educational Standard, comprising core courses, professional, psychological and pedagogical subjects, and a wide range of elective courses. During a five-year study students have their teaching practicum in educational institutions of different levels and summer children’s camps.

The Faculty offers postgraduate and internship programs for students to develop their teaching skills further, and continuous training for lecturers to master their pedagogical skills.

The Economics Faculty

The Faculty was created on October 9, 1922 as a part of the former Petrovskaya academy economics division per resolution of the professional education chief administration boar.  Professor A.V. Chayanov deserves greatly the credit for establishing and organizing the Faculty, and developing the economic science. The Economics Division was open at his suggestion in 1920, and The Faculty of Economics and the Scientific and Research Institute of Economics and Policy in Agriculture was established in 1922.

Professors G.Y. Gurov, G.S. Gordeev, and S.M. Dubrovsky took active part in establishing the Faculty. Professor P.A. Mesyatsev, the member of the Board of the People’s Commissariat in Soil Management was appointed the first Dean of the Faculty.

Many world known scientists conducted research and lectured at the Chairs of the Faculty, professors A.Y. Miroshkin, P.A. Vikhlyev, A.F. Fortunatov, P.I. Lyashenko, A.A. Ryibnikov, A.A. Bogolepov, N.P. Makarov, A.N. Chelintsev, A.A. Manuilov and N.P. Nazarov are among them.

The first large-scale graduation of economists took place in 1927. The Faculty started training economist-managers, economists in accounting and the analysis of economic activity, economist-mathematicians in the 1960s and 1970s. The training on the basis of non-residence and correspondence studies has been provided. The Faculty offers study programs of continuing education since 1995.

The considerable contribution to training of specialists, publishing educational and methodical literature, and to research on the actual problems of Russian agricultural and industrial complex was made by academicians V.S. Nemchinov, S.G. Kolesnev, G.M. Loza, M.I. Sinjukov, A.A. Nikonov, G.I. Budyilkin, S.S. Sergeev, V.A. Dobrinin, professors S.M. Putyato, F.S. Krokhalev, A.G. Shmakov, I.S. Kuvshinov, E.A. Rudakova, S.F. Demidov, P.P. Dunaev, P.A. Granditsky, V.M. Obukhovsky, I.M. Prokofjev, E.S. Tserlevskaya, R.G. Kravchenko, A.G. Pervushin, and M.N. Gromov.

The Faculty conducts training in the following specialties:

- Economics and Management in Agricultural and Industrial Complex (the qualification of economist-manager) with specializations in entrepreneurship organization; organization and planning foreign economic activity; antirecession management; strategic planning at an enterprise; property estimation, marketing management, organization of extension and information support in agricultural and industrial complex, organization and remuneration of labor;

- Mathematical Methods in Economics (the qualification of economist-mathematician) with a specialization in mathematical methods in economics of agricultural and industrial complex.

Leading scientific and pedagogical schools have been formed in the above-mentioned branches of training. These schools function within the framework of leading Chairs.

Professional training of students is based on required courses in such subjects as Humanities, Social and Economic Sciences, Mathematics and Basic Sciences, and general profession-oriented ones.  Graduate students study the subjects in the chosen area of concentration.

Since 1999 the Faculty offers a 2-year full-time graduate program: Extension and Information Support in Agricultural and Industrial Complex, and Production Management, leading to the Master of Science degree.

Today, the Faculty comprises ten Chairs: Agricultural Production Organization, Economics in Agriculture, Economic Cybernetics, Forecasting and Planning in Agro-industrial Complex, Agricultural Production Management, Political Economy, World Agriculture and International Economic Relations, Marketing, Labor in Agriculture, and Information – Extension Technologies.

The Faculty has more than 150 faculty members, including 29 professors, nine academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences and other branch, and 130 associate professors. Well-known scientists conduct research and deliver lectures at the Faculty, including the corresponding members V.M. Bautin, A.M. Gataulin, E.B. Khlebutin, professors A.V. Belyaev, S.I. G At present ryadov, A.S. Ivanov, N.Y. Kovalenko, Yu.B. Korolev, K.P. Lichko, A.K. Pastukhov, A.V. Poshataev, M.P. Tushkanov, Yu.N. Shumakov, F.K. Shakirov and others.

2,200 students, 150 postgraduate students and candidates for Doctor’s Degree are studying at the Faculty . There are three Specialized Candidate and Doctor of Science Dissertation Committees at the Faculty.

The Deans of the Faculties were V.N. Maksimovsky, S.M. Dubrovsky, P.Y. Gurov, I.N. Nekrasov, G.M. Loza, M.M. Sokolov, I.S. Kuvshinov, A.I. Stepanov, S.S. Sergeev, A.G. Shmakov, P.P. Dunaev, V.A. Dobrinin, M.P. Tushkanov, A.P. Zinchenko, V.A. Udalov, V.S. Filimonov, and V.I. Eremin in different years. The Dean of the Faculty has been corresponding member of Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, professor A.M. Gataulin since 2004.

The Faculty has close relations with foreign scientists, in particular from Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany), University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart, Germany), Wageningen University (the Netherlands), the Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (Germany), Bavarian Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (Munich, Germany), and some US Universities.

Over the years of its existence the Faculty has trained more than 12,000 specialists, researchers and lecturers in economics, including 590 specialists and Candidates of Science for 65 foreign countries. Many Faculty graduates have become well-known leaders and specialists in agricultural industry, great scientists, as well as state and public leaders.

Quickly changing economic conditions require the specialists` proficiency in the production and financial management, marketing, in building economic models, and financial agribusiness analysis. Under professional supervision the students acquire skills in production situation analysis, in creating an enterprise development scenario, and master operative and strategic management methods and instruments.

Training is provided with a flexible curriculum, considering students’ professional interests, demands of agricultural industry, and the latest achievements in science and technologies. Students receive good practical training at home and foreign enterprises and universities.

The Accounting Faculty

The Accounting and Finance Faculty is one of the new departments of the University, since it was separated from the Economics Faculty in 2005. Although, it has rich traditions and the Faculty’ scientific and pedagogical schools were originated as early as in 1880s. The first graduation of specialists in accounting and finance was dated 1961.

Among the Great Russian scientists who laid the foundation for scientific - pedagogical schools of agricultural statistics, economic and statistics analysis, and statistical modeling of agriculture were the outstanding statistician A.F. Fortunatov, academician of the All-union Academy of Agricultural Sciences V.S. Nemchinov, and academician S.S. Sergeev. Academician V.S. Nemchinov was the Head of the Chair of Statistics in 1928-1948 and the Director of the Academy in 1940-1948. Academician S.S. Sergeev was the Head of the Chair of Statistics in 1956-1989.

Accounting and audit in agriculture as an independent scientific school was formed at the Chair of Accounting. A.M. Galagan, a well-known specialist in accounting was the founder of this scientific school (1920).  The scientific agricultural production cost accounting methods and calculation principals were further developed in I.M. Prokofjev`s papers. Professors N.G. Belov, and M.Yu. Shteiman made a great contribution to the development of theory, methodology and organization of audit in agriculture.

The scientists of the Faculty are the authors of textbooks on accounting, statistics, audit, and management accounting. These textbooks are widely used in a teaching process of Russian agrarian educational institutions.

The considerable contribution to training specialists and the development of research on actual problems in the area of accounting, inspection, statistics, mathematics, applied information science, and finance was made by I.M. Prokofjev, A.Yu. Vazhov, E.S. Tserlevskaya, V.P. Kartushin, N.A. Fridlender, A.L. Shikov, A.V. Kazakova, S.I. Kovanov, and E.I. Kurkova.

The Faculty offers the courses in the following specialties:

-Accounting, analysis and audit with specializations in accounting, analysis and audit in agriculture;

-Applied information science in economics;

- Finance and credit.

Five Chairs headed by the leading scientists are involved in the teaching process at the Faculty: Accounting and Audit, Higher Mathematics, Applied Information Science, and Statistics and Finance.

The faculty has 70 faculty members, including nine professors, three academicians of branch academies and economics academies, and 28 associate professors. These are well-known scientists: A.P. Zinchenko, a corresponding member of Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, professors N.G. Belov, V.S. Filimonov, L.I. Khoruzhy, D.I. Zolotarevskaya, A.A. Zemlyansky, R.V. Kostina, A.I. Pavlichev, R.N. Rastorgueva, associate professors E.V. Neiskasheva, A.E. Shibalkin, T.F. Khromova, V.M. Bochkarev, M.M. Arapova, E.D. Chaika, P.P. Nosenko, G.A. Kretova, L.V. Postnikova, and S.V. Pivarchuk.

There are 900 students, more than 50 postgraduate students and one candidate for Doctoral Degree today.

The training in specialty Accounting, Analysis and Audit is based on a wide use of application software for accounting, analytical and statistical analysis, as well as other various teaching aids and interactive methods. These include lectures, computer lab classes, business games, and such learning activity as a role play.

More than 3,000 specialists in the area of accounting and finances, over 150 Candidate of Science and eight Doctors of Science have been trained at the Faculty since the beginning of the 1960s.

Final qualification papers were continually distinguished with the All-Russia contest prizes. For example, the final paper of T.A. Suslova (the graduate of 2004) won the first Prize in Russia.

In 1996 two structural subdivisions were formed at the Faculty: Educational and Methodic Center on Attestation and Continuous Education of the Russian Federation Finance Ministry Auditors, and Educational and Methodic Center of the Institute of the Russian Professional Accountants. More than 3,500 auditors and professional accountants, and over 4,000 specialists have received extended education since 1996.

The Technological Faculty

The Food Technology Faculty was open in 2004 to train specialists-technologists in production and processing agricultural production (e.g. plant and animal husbandry). There are three special Chairs to train graduates and two Chairs to provide general professional training.

The Chairs providing graduate level training are the following: storage, processing and merchandizing plant husbandry products, storage and processing fruit and vegetables, and storage and processing technologies of animal husbandry products.

The Chairs, which provide general professional training, comprise the one of Food Processing Industry processes and devices; and The Chair of Biochemistry and Applied Biotechnology.

Eight professors and Doctors of Science, including one corresponding member of Russian Agricultural Academy, 20 associate professors and Candidates of Science are engaged in educational process.

The Faculty offers training on agricultural production technologies in the following specialties:

- The technology of production and processing agricultural products with specializations in technology of processing plant husbandry products; the technology of processing fruit and vegetables; the technology of processing animal husbandry products.

The Chairs providing graduate level training were transferred and joined the newly established Faculty from other Faculties of the University. Each of them has their own development history. For example, the Chair of Storage, Processing and Merchandizing plant husbandry products originated from Petrovskaya Academy Chair of Agricultural and Forest Production.

Professors I.K. Kossov, V.M. Rudnev, Yu.Yu. Nikitinsky, V.V. Tugarinov, and L.A. Trisvyatsky are well-known scientists and lecturers in the area of storage and processing plant husbandry products, who made fame for the Chair. The faculty members created the syllabus on standardization and certification, technology of storing and processing plant husbandry products, wrote textbooks and manuals for agricultural universities.

The Chair of Storing and Processing Fruit and Vegetables was open in 1920 at the same time when the Horticulture Faculty was established. The Chair of Agricultural Technology, where the course on technology of processing fruit and vegetables was developed in 1913, can be considered its ancestor.

Well-known Russian scientists F.V. Tserevitinov, N.V. Saburov, E.P. Shirokov, and V.I. Polegaev headed this Chair at different time periods. The fundamental research studies on chemical composition, merchandizing and the primary storage characteristics of fruit and vegetables, as well as on the improvement of fruit and vegetables preserving methods were conducted under their mentorship. 

The scientists of the Chair were the first to develop the technology of fruit and vegetables storage in a changed gaseous environment. The scientists of the Chair developed the technology of the permanent clamp cabbage storage with forced ventilation, which was approved by the International Organization for Standardization.

The Chair of Technology of Storing and Processing Animal Husbandry Products was open in 1912 by the professor V.I. Lemus on the basis of the dairy production course, that was taught at Petrovskaya Academy of Agriculture and Forestry.

Later on, such well-known scientists and lecturers in the area of dairy produce and milk processing as A.A. Kalantar, R.E. Gerlakh, R.B. Davidov, and N.V. Barabanshikov were at the head of the Chair. The research in the technology of milk production and processing was conducted under the guidance of these scientists. Professor R.B. Davidov was conferred the title of State Prize Laureate for the development of technology of tinned milk.