Southern Branch of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Southern Branch of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Південне відділення Всесоюзної академії сільськогосподарських наук; Pivdenne viddilennia Vsesoiuznoi akademii silskohospodarskykh nauk). Until the demise of the USSR in 1991, a regional center for agricultural research in the Ukrainian SSR and the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1991 it became the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences. It was set up in Kyiv under the jurisdiction of the presidium of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR in 1969. The branch had various sections, such as agronomy, animal husbandry and veterinary medicine, the mechanization and electrification of farming, hydrotechnology and land melioration, and farm economics and organization. It had a publishing department and the Central Republican Agricultural Research Library. It oversaw the work of 19 scientific research institutes and their experimental stations and seed farms. The branch planned and co-ordinated agricultural research at agricultural scientific research institutions and higher educational institutions in Ukraine and Moldavian SSR.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]