Наукова школа агрономічного ґрунтознавства

Abstract

The Scientific School of Agronomic Soil Science was founded in 1924 by Oleksii Sokolovskyi, Academician, the first President of the Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Over time, two independent scientific institutions were established on the basis of the Department of Soil Science: in 1952 – the Ukrainian Research Institute of Agrosoil Science (now the Institute of Agriculture of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) and in 1956 – the Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry. O.N. Sokolovsky of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine (now the National Scientific Center, Kharkiv). Soil scientists, Doctors of Agricultural Sciences, Professors – Oleksandr Grinchenko, Mykola Laktionov, Dmytro Tikhonenko, Vasyl Degtyarev – in recent years have developed theoretical and practical issues of gypsum and liming of alkaline, podzolic and chernozem soils; colloidal-chemical direction in the study of humus; outlined the methodology of soil survey. Their research is a significant contribution to the development of land conservation and increasing soil fertility, to the study of the patterns of development of the cultural soil-forming process and the evolution of soils. Scientists have developed and implemented a technology for the integrated use of remote sensing data and digital terrain models to assess the quality and efficient use of land.