160 years since the birth of the agronomist, professor and the first head of the Department of General Agriculture of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute; the organizer of the seed control station in Kyiv - Pyotr Rodionovich Slozkin (1862-1927)

Petro Rodionovich Slozkin (1862-1927) – outstanding scientist-agronomist, teacher, organizer of agricultural affairs in Ukraine, co-founder of Kyiv Agronomic Society (1909), since 1919 — member of the Permanent Commission for the Study of Natural Resources of Ukraine at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

He received his higher education at the Petrovsky Agricultural and Forestry Academy, in 1885 he received the degree of Candidate of Agriculture. He spent the next year and a half in the United States, where he studied cotton growing. Then he arranged cotton plantations in the Transcaucasia, studied the possibility of growing this crop in the Transcaspian region. In 1889-1891, he was on a foreign business trip to prepare for the Department of Agriculture. In 1891-1893, he gave lectures on "biological conditions for growing agricultural plants" at the Petrovsky Academy, passed the master's exam. In 1894, a book was published by P.R. Slozkin's "Contemporary issues of scientific agriculture", which consisted of six parts: bacteria in the soil, activity of experimental fields and stations, nitrogenous and potash fertilizers, phosphorus fertilizers, plants and soil organic matter, soil improvement with the help of plants.< /p>

In 1894, he founded a horticultural and agricultural experimental station in Sochi. From March 1, 1897 to May 1899, he was the founder and first director of the seed control station and laboratory of the Kyiv Agricultural Syndicate. In this way, the seed control case in Ukraine was started. From January 1899, he worked as an extraordinary professor of the Department of Agriculture of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, managed the station for testing agricultural machines of the same university. One of the founders and dean of the agricultural department (1908-1915), head of the department of agriculture of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (1902-1919). In 1905, he published a manual for familiarization with agricultural machinery "Agronomist-trainee in the farm".

Petro Rodionovych simultaneously worked as a professor of the commodity studies department of the Kyiv Commercial Institute (since August 1908 for 19 years), where he taught the following disciplines: commodity studies, agricultural policy and agricultural commodity science. During this period, he held the following positions: dean of the economic and commercial departments, head of the department of agricultural commodity science, head of the museum of commodity science and the laboratory of agricultural commodity science, acting director (from 03.20.1917 to 12.21.1917), director of KKI from 09.26.1919 to January 1920. In 1920-1927 he worked in educational institutions created on the basis of a commercial institute: he headed the Ukrainian Cooperative Institute named after M. Tugan-Baranovskyi and the Kyiv National Economy Institute named after E. Bosch as a museum of commodity science and a laboratory of agricultural commodity science.

Outstanding scientist P.R. Slozkin left a rich scientific legacy, which is carefully preserved in the "Fund of publications published in the 19th century". on agricultural topics of the National Scientific Agricultural Library of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine» and "Collections of scientific publications of 1901-1917 from the funds of the National Scientific Agricultural Library of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences", included in the State Register of National Cultural Heritage. These are the books "Modern questions of scientific agriculture (1894), "Grain crops, their life and methods of cultivation (1904), "Agronomist trainee in household (1905)", "Description of the Shpykovskiy estate of his Highness" Nikolay Petrovich Balashev, written for the All-Russian Agricultural, Factory, Trade, Industrial and Scientific Art Exhibition of 1913 in Kyiv, the famous Agricultural Calendar. (First publication year), 1912, T. 2, which was published for only three years and articles on the organization of farms, on the predominant process of soil formation, on cotton cultivation and its marketing needs, on the relationship of plant roots to lime and phosphoric acid, which research stations are needed, about the economic importance of special crops, how to breed grain plants, mechanical and economic notes, correspondence from the United States of North America, agronomic aphorisms from the province from the periodicals "Hozyain", "Herald of Russian Agriculture", "Derevnia", " "Zemledelcheska Gazeta", "Agriculture and Forestry".

The materials of the exhibition can be viewed in the reading room No. 2 of the National Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences