KAZAKH AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE CELEBRATES 20TH ANNIVERSARY

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• Publication Date: June 23, 1951
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
SUBJECT Sociological - Education
Scientific - Miscellaneous, institutes
HOW DATE DIST. 46 Jun 1951
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers, manuals
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PUBLISHED USSR
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PUBLISHED 1950
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KA^?AM AGRICULTURAL ;u"STITJ E CET "BR=ES 20TE A 1NIV RSARY
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History and Organization
The Kazakh State Agricultural Institute, now 20 years old, opened in
Alma-Ata in autumn 1930 with 120 students. it is now one of the largest
institutes in the Kazakh SSR, with a student body of over 1,100. (1)) The
institute graduated 153 persons at the end of the 1949 - 1950 school year,
and admitted 325 new students at the beginning of the present school year. (e)
Since it opened, the institute has graduated 1,500 highly qualified
agricultural specialists, including agronomists-husbandrymen, pomiculturists,
bacciculturists, agricultural, mechanical, and electrical engineers, and con-
servation and forestry engineers, who now work in all parts of the USSR. In
addition, the institute has retrained over 4,000 agricultural administrative
personnel, such as directors of MTS and sovkhozes, heads of rayon soviet
agriculture sections, and MPS mechanics and agronomists. (1)
Entrance Requirements _
The instit9te is open to any Soviet citizen, 17 - 35 years of age, of
either sex, who has completed secondary school and who is able to pass
entrance examinations in mathematics, physics, chemistry, Russian language
and literature, and Kazakh language and literature. Students who have been
awarded gold and silver scholarship medals upon graduation from secondary
school are exempted from entrance examinations.
Applications for entrance are accepted each year, from 20 June to 31 July.
The applicant must indicate the department (fakul'tet) and specialty in which
he intends to do his work, and submit an autobiography, diploma of graduation
from secondary school, identity card to be presented upon arrival, three
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Entrance examinations at the institute are usually given I - 20 August,
registration of students takes place 21 - 25 August, and instruction begins
I September. (3)
The fee for instruction at the institute, by decree of the Council of
Peoples' Commissars, No 1860, 2 October 1940, is 400 rubles a year. Decree
No 1696, 15 October 1942, exempts Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Uigurs, and Tatars ?rom
payment of the fee. Disabled war veterans and their dependents, and disabled
pensioners and their children are also exempted from payment of the fee. (4)
Scholarships
All students enrolled in the institute are provided with a monthly
stipend, ranging from 140 rubles during the first year, to 160 rubles the
second year, 185 rubles the third and fourth years, and 210 rubles during
the fifth year. In addition, students who receive a grade of excellent in
all their school work receive an additional of 25 percent.
Outstanding students, chosen by the academic council, receive, in addition
to the amounts listed above, a Stalin Stipend of 500 rubles per month. (4)
Departments, Chairs, and Courses
The institute has six departments' Agronomy, Pomiculture, Agricultural
Mechanization, Agricultural Electrification, Water Resources Development, and
Timber Management. One section in each department carries on instruction in
the Kazakh language. The institute also has a Department of Correspondence
Education, which provides instruction in Agronomy, Pomiculture, Water Resources
Development, and Timber Management. (3)
Fifty chairs and laboratories have been set up at the institute. (1)
Work in specialties under the Agronomy and Pomiculture departments may be
completed in 4 years and 7 months; work in specialties under the departments of
Agricultural Mechanization, Agricultural Electrification, Water Resources
Development, and Timber Management require 5 years and 6 months to complete. (4)
Officers and Faculty
The director of the institute is A. Zhumatov.
The Chair of Soil Science and Agrochemistry, headed by Professor A. V.
Mukhlya, Honored Scientist of the Kazakh SSR, has done much work on agricultural
utilization of the natural resources of Central Kazakhstan. Mukhlya is. one of
the pioneer scientists engaged in research on the arid, and semiarid regions of
the republic.
The Chair of Pomiculture, under the direction of A. P. Dragavtsev, Honored
Scientist of the Kazakh SSR, has introduced a number of agronomic improvements
The Chair of Farming, headed by Professor V. Ye. Kazakov, Doctor of
Agricultural Sciences, is working on the development of an improved grassy,
layer for the dry steppe area of Kazakhstan. On the basis of his extensive
experimental work, Professor Kazakov has worked out practical methods for the
rapid. growing of such a grassy layer.
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The Chair for Organization of Agricultural Enterprises, until recently
directed by the late K. B. Babayev, Honored Scientist of the Kazakh SSR, has
almost completed a project on the problem of. agricultural distribution AW.-
e~:ecialization in the various regions of the republic. This work ins besed
yp a the development of a system fcr increasing the crop yield.ando-c*ttlepro
ductivity in all oblasts of Kazakhstan.
The head of the Chair of Repairs is Docent A. 0. Proskuryakov, Candidate
of Technical Sciences.
The head of the Chair of Hydraulic Structures is Docent I. M. Volkov.
The head of the Chair of Agricultural Conservation is Docent V. I. Alekseyev.
During the past 5 years, dozens of, scientific research works have been
completed in the various chairs of the institute, )nd 24 resulting improvements
have been introduced into socialist agricultural production. The 500 members
of the institute's student scientific society have been assisting in the
research. Individual research is carried on by the teaching staff, which
includes eight professors and doctors of sciences, and 36 docents and candidates
of sciences) 30 of the 38 staff members holding academic degrees and titles are
Kazakhs.
The institute also performs a variety of other functions directly aiding
agricultural production. In addition to propagandizing the fundamentals of
Michurin biological science and giving regular lectures and talks on agricul-
ture, workers at the institute give direct aid to iffS and kolkhozes in the
course of periodic visits.
At the suggestion of the institute's party organization and the academic
council, many of the institute's scholars are devoting their services to the new
3-year courses for training skilled kolkhoz workers. (1)
New Facilities
Two new school buildings, plus a shed for tractors and agricultural
machinery have been erected. A complex hydraulic-engineering laboratory has
been set up for use by students in their practical training; other student
training is done on the leading kolkhozes, MPS, and sovkhozes of the republic. (1)
1. Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 12 Nov 50
2. -.Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 24 Jun 50
3. spravochnik dlya postupayushchikh v vysshiye uchebnyye zavedeniya Soyuza
SSR v 1950 g, Ministry of Higher Education USSR, Moscow, published by
Sovetskaya Nauka State Publishing House, 1950, pp 5 - 9, 139
4. Vysshaya Shkola (Basic Degrees, Orders, and InstructionA., compiled by
M. I. Movshovich, edited by A. M. Khodzhayeva, All-Union Committee on
Higher School Affairs,. Council of Peoples' Commissars USSR, Moscow,
published by Sovetskaya Nauka Publishing House, 1945, pp 65 - 75
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