155 years since the birth of Felix Boleslavovich Yanovchyk (1867-1926), agronomist, research specialist, popularizer of agricultural science, initiator of the development of agricultural meteorology

Felix Boleslavovich Yanovchyk was born in Podilla, studied at Kyiv University named after St. Volodymyr, student of professor of agronomy S.M. Bohdanova.

In 1894-1896, he participated in the creation of the Plotyan Research Station (where he was a farmer, chemist and head of the meteorological station), founded by the famous figure P. P. Trubetsky The first annual report of the Plotyan Agricultural Research Station in 1896 testifies to the results of the young researcher's activities. In 1897, Felix Boleslavovych joined the Odesa Experimental Field, and in 1898 he was elected to the vacant post of head of the Kherson Zemstvo Experimental Field, which he held until 1913. It was the most fruitful period of his activity, reflected in the annual reports of the experimental field.

Since March 1897 F.B. Yanovchyk was elected a valid member of the Imperial Agricultural Society of Southern Russia, where he repeatedly spoke at meetings with reports on the state of agriculture in the arid conditions of southern Ukraine and measures to improve it.

In 1900, F.B. Yanovchyk developed a well-founded project of a new program of experiments, which remained unchanged until 1917. The main areas of the program were: selection of a 9-type system of grass crop rotation for experiments with alfalfa, research of winter crops in inter-row corn (American and Kherson pairs), study of the role of tillage in constant sowing of cereals, introduction of research on cereal varieties, etc. Along with the expansion of the field research program, laboratory studies were also expanded. On January 14, 1909, the Kherson experimental field became a full-fledged agricultural experimental station. Excursions for farmers were introduced in 1911, which played an important role in popularizing and spreading agricultural culture in the south of Ukraine.

At the Imperial Society of Southern Russia in 1912, courses for agronomic personnel were organized. The lecture committee consisted of Professor A.I. Nabokikh, private associate professor A.A. Bychikhina, A.F. Lebedeva, A.A. Sapiegin, head of Odessa irrigation fields A.I. Pobybko, director of the Odesa experimental field V.G. Rotmistrov, head of the Kherson experimental field F.B. Yanovchyk.

After liberation, since 1914 F.B. Yanovchyk moved his activities to the Transnistrian side of Bessarabia, to Soroky, where he organized the Vasylkeu-Trifout seed farm.

In the "Fund of publications published in the XIX century. on agricultural topics of the NNSGB of the National Academy of Sciences» annual reports on the activities of the Kherson experimental field, compiled in detail by Felix Boleslavovich and printed in the "Notes of the Imperial Society of Agricultural Agriculture of Southern Russia" and separate editions. Brochure by H. Fedorov and F. Yanovchyk "Plowing for help: about experiments in agriculture and what is an experimental field?" was presented at the South Russian Regional Agricultural, Industrial and Crafts Exhibition of 1910, organized by the Katerynoslav Provincial Zemstvo. In 1913, the book was republished in St. Petersburg and was supplemented with 36 photographs commissioned by the Department of Agriculture.

These and other publications of the scientific heritage of F. B. Yanovchyk can be viewed in the "Fund of publications issued in the 19th century. on agricultural subjects of the NNSGB NAAS».