Vocabulary

educational establishment	учебное заведение
forestry	лесоводство
fruit-and-vegetable growing and viticulture	плодоовощеводство и виноградорство
hunting	охотничье хозяйство
improvement of professional skill of heads and experts of agriculture	повышение квалификации руководителей и специалистов сельского хозяйства
land management and cadastre	землеустроительство и кадастр
preparation of experts	подготовка специалистов
technology of fats and fat substitute	технология жиров и жирозаменителей
technology of fermentive producing and winemaking	технология бродильного производства и виноделие
to carry out	проводить
to organize scientific researches	организовывать научные исследования

The history of the educational establishment begins with the Department of Agriculture at Tavrida University in 1918. It received the status of the higher educational institution as the Crimean Institute of Special Cultures in 1923.

In 1936 the Institute of Special Cultures was transformed into the Crimean Agricultural Institute. In 2004 our university was included into the structure of the National Agrarian University and was titled as the Southern Branch “Crimean Agrotechnological University” of the National Agrarian University.

For the years of its existence the educational establishment has prepared 50 thousand experts for agriculture and forestry, veterinary medicine. More than 500 of them are foreign citizens from Western Europe, Asia, Africa, South America. For this period more than 25 thousand agricultural experts from different structures and official categories have raised their qualification in the educational establishment.

The Southern Branch carries out the preparation of experts, improvement of professional skill of heads and experts of agriculture, organizes scientific researches and researching and designing projects.

The preparation of experts is accomplished on the following specialties: Agronomy, Fruit-and-vegetable growing and viticulture, Economics of enterprise, Finance, Account and audit, Management of organizations, Forestry; Landscape design; Hunting; Mechanization of agriculture; Veterinary Medicine; Land management and cadastre, Technology of fats and fat substitute, Technology of fermentive producing and winemaking.

The educational and scientific research complex of the Southern Branch “Crimean Agrotechnological University” of the National Agrarian University is situated in the settlement of Agrarne, Simferopol.

Educational process and scientific activity in the Branch are carried out by the highly qualified science-pedagogical staff of 300 people.

Future specialists are trained for 16 specialties at 6 epartments.

1. Read and learn the words of the vocabulary by heart

2. Read the text, translate it into Russian

3. Answer the questions.

1. What do you know about the history of your university?

2. Foreign students can also study at your university, can’t they?

3. What are the main missions of your educational establishment?

4. What is the address of your university?

5. Name all specialties at the university.

4. Retell the text.

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