10. Professor V. I. Kovalevskyi — an outstanding scientist and organizer of domestic agricultural research business

https://doi.org/10.31073/agrovisnyk201902-10
Vergunov V. A.
Pages: 74-81.

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Abstract
The purpose. To describe periods of creativity of an outstanding scientist and organizer of branch science Vladimir Ivanovich Kovalevskyi, his contribution to creation and development of domestic agricultural research business. Methods. For decision of research tasks general scientific methods are used: analysis, synthesis, typology, and also methods of scientific knowledge — problem-chronological and comparative-historical. Results. V.I. Kovalevskyi biobibliography is reconstructed with its context filling with results of basic scientific works and disclosure of unknown page of creativity on the post of chairman of a prototype of National academy of agrarian sciences of Ukraine — Agricultural scientific committee of Ukraine (ASCU) — since September 1923 till June, 1924. Conclusions. It is proved that V.I.Kovalevskyi was elected the chairman of ASCU after academician V.I. Vernadskyi, B.G. Ivanytskyi, academician P.A. Tutkovskyi, professors S.L. Frankfurt, and S.F. Veselovskyi. For the period of his stay on a post ASCU moved to Kharkiv and organized the first nation-wide presentation at the First All-Union agricultural and handicraft-industrial exhibition in Moscow (1923), as well as multilateral international scientific cooperation.


Key words: Volodymyr Ivanovych Kovalevskyi, Pet­rovsk farming agriculture and wood academy, Department of farming agriculture and agricultural industry, Ministry of state properties, Ministry of Finance, Scientific committee, Imperial Russian technical society, State institute of experimental agronomics, Agricultural scientific committee of Ukraine.



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