Izhevsk agricultural institute

(Russian Federation Ministry of Agriculture)

11, Studencheskaya Ul., 426033, Izhevsk, Russia
Tel. 23-16-28

1. The Institute was founded in 1954 on the basis of Moscow Zootechnical Institute of Horse Breeding. The first Rector was Professor B.G.Menshov. Later the Institute was headed by Candidate of Veterinary Sciences, Associate Professor F.P.Bogdanov and Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor, Honoured Scientist of the Udmurt Republic V.P.Kovrigo.
The present Rector of the Institute is Professor V.V.Fokin.

2. The Institute comprises 6 Faculties:

Agronomy
Zooengineering
Agricultural Mechanization
Agricultural Electrification and Automation
Extra-mural

Qualification Improvement

which enroll 2400 full-time students and 1800 extra-mural students.
The Institute structure includes 37 Departments, a computing centre, a library, a training experimental farm, an experimental field, a training ground. There are 3 Museums: Mineralogy, Soil Science and the Institute History.

3. 265 teachers and lecturers are the Institute staff members, among them - 10 Profesors, Doctors of Sciences and 116 Associate Professors, Candidates of Sciences, 4 Honoured Scientific Workers, 1 Honoured Worker of Culture of the Udmurt Republic.

4. Students are trained in 6 specialites:

agronomy
zooengineering
mechanical engineering
electrical engineering
economics and managment in branches of the Agro-Industrial Complex (AIC)
accounting, economic activities control and analysis

There are a Preparatory Department and special courses for applicants with full-time and extra-mural forms of training.

5. The Institute's research programme corresponds to the specialists' training orientation. There is a unique in the Russian Federation problem laboratory conducting research into soils magnetism and a branch research laboratory of sheep breeding intensification.

6. The Institute is one of the major scientific centres the CIS for research into magnetic properties of soils, in the development of scientific methods of soil fertility regeneration and of the intensive technology of sheep breeding.