Entomology” and five monographs. He published the monograph entitled “Mass
Reproduction of Insects. Their History, Theory, and Forecasting” (2011). At the
Department of Zoology and Entomology, in the whole, four scientific schools were
created by the Professors V.G. Averin, O.O. Mihulin, B.M. Lytvynov, and Ye.M.
Biletskyi.
From 2010 to 2016, the Ph. D. in Agricultural Sciences, Associate Professor
G.V. Baidyk headed the Department of Zoology and Entomology named after
B.M. Lytvynov. She is one of the many followers of Professor B.M. Lytvynov. Her
scientific interests are the study of the laws of the long-term dynamics of pest
populations of cereal crops and the improvement of the integrated system of plant
protection. She is a co-author of one textbook and seven manuals, etc. [7, 14, 15].
From 2018 the Department has been headed by B.M. Lytvynov’s follower, Ph. D.
in Biological Sciences, Professors, the Honored Rector of Kharkiv National Agrarian
University M.D. Yevtushenko.
At present the Department is run by the Professors M.D. Yevtushenko (the
Honored Rector of Kharkiv National Agrarian University, he was at the head of the
University in 1996–2007), V.L. Mieshkova, Ye.M. Biletskyi, the Associate Professors
G.V. Baidyk, L.Ya. Sirous, I.P. Lezhenina, M.O. Filatov, D.D. Yushchuk (the
Administrative Vice-Rector), I.V. Zabrodina (the Dean of Plant Protection
Department), S.V. Stankevych (the Deputy Dean of Plant Protection Department), the
teacher Yu.V. Vasylieva, Ph. D. in Agricultural Sciences V.V. Vilna and senior
laboratory assistants N.P. Varzhelenko, and A.O. Salina. The Department trains
specialists of the Education Level “Bachelor” and “Master” in the field of “Protection
and Quarantine of Plants”. The teachers of the Department provide the educational
process at the following faculties: Plant Protection, Agronomy, and Soil Science, and
Forestry (the full-time and extra mural forms of training).
During the years of Ukraine's independence, the teachers of the Department issued
the textbook “Agricultural Entomology” (2005), the manuals “Agricultural
Entomology Workshop” (2009), and “The Pests of Forest Plantations” (2005, 2008)
with the stamp of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine. They also published the
textbooks for the Ukrainian agrarian universities and, in fact, fully ensured the
educational process at the Department.
The main trend of the research work at the Department is to substantiate the theory
and develop the techniques for managing the dynamics of harmful and useful insects’
populations on the basis of phytosanitary forecasts of different ages, which includes 14
sections.
In 1980 the laboratory on the problems of insect ecology was formed at the
Department. It was headed by Ph.D. in Biological Sciences V.M. Grama. The staff and
the teachers of the Department developed the ecological bases of the integrated
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