The Postgraduate Courses and Doctoral Studies in the specialty “Entomology” are
functioning at the Department. Over the past half century 85 Philosophy Doctors and
eight Doctors of Sciences have been trained.
Ye.M. Biletskyi, M.D. Yevtushenko, V.L. Mieshkova, G.V. Baidyk, and
L.Ya. Sirous, the teachers of the Department, during several cadences took an active
part in the certification of the personnel of the highest qualification at the Specialized
Scientific Council in the specialty “Entomology and Phytopathology”.
On the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the Department on May 21–22 2015,
an International Scientific and Practical Conference “Fundamental and Applied
Researches in Zoology” has been held [7, 14, 15].
CONCLUSION
The need to find the measures to control pests and the aspiration of man to
knowledge became the source of the origin of Scientific Entomology. The history of
plant protection science is closely linked to the diverse role of insects and other animals
in nature and human life and it needs to be studied in detail. Ukrainian researchers are
also rightfully assigned to the cohort of prominent plant protection scientists in the
world.
In 1878 the first Zemstvo Ecological Commission was created in Kharkiv, and in
1882 the second such commission was formed in Odessa. Their task was to observe
the crop pests and develop the measures to protect the plantations from them. At the
end of XIXth century the provincial Zemstvo councils formed the entomological
bureaus, which were governed by the provincial Zemstvo entomologists, and the
entomological commissions ceased their activities. Three such bureaus, namely
Tavriiske (entomologist S.O. Mokrzhetskyi since1893), Khersonske (entomologist
J.K. Pachoskyi since 1897) and Kharkivske (entomologist I.V. Yemelianov since 1905
and V.G. Averin since 1913) carried out a significant work in Ukraine.
After the October events in 1917, the Subdivisions on Entomology were created
at the land departments of the province executive committees and research institutions
of Ukraine. The department of plant protection, since 1925 headed by Viktor
Gryhorovych Averin, and the Republican Plant Protection Station at the head of
O.O. Mihulin (1932) at the People’s Committee of Land were formed. In 1930–1931,
about 30 institutes and research stations were organized; in particular, the Institute of
Plant Protection in Kharkiv, the phytopathologist T.D. Strakhov was appointed on the
position of its director. In 1932 T.D. Strakhov became the first Dean of the first in
Ukraine and former USSR Plant Protection Department at Kharkiv Agricultural
Institute.
In 1946 an agricultural department at the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian
SSR was organized, which encompassed 5 newly created institutes, including the
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