Institute of Entomology and Phytopathology, later reorganized into the Ukrainian
Research Institute of Plant Protection. Now it is the Institute of Plant Protection of the
National Academy of Agrarian Sciences and the Scientific and Methodical Center for
Plant Protection in Ukraine.
The Department of Zoology and Entomology named after B.M. Lytvynov of
Kharkiv National Agrarian University was founded yet in 1840 after joining the
Marimont Institute of Agricultural Management of the Warsaw Forestry School.
From 1905 to 1930, the Department was headed by the Professor Ivan
Kostiantynovych Tarnani; from 1930 to 1956, the Department was headed by the
Professor, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences V.G. Averin; from 1956 to 1971 it was
headed by Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor O.O. Mihulin. From 1971 to 1991
Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor B.M. Lytvynov was at the head of the
Department; from 1991 to 2010 it was Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, and
Academician of the Academy of Pedagogic Sciences of Ukraine Ye.M. Biletskyi; from
2010 to 2016 it was headed by Ph. D. in Agricultural Sciences, Associate Professor
G.V. Baidyk. Since 2018 Ph. D. in Biological Sciences, Professor, the Honored Rector
of Kharkiv National Agrarian University named after V.V. Dokuchaiev
M.D. Yevtushenko has been at the head of the Department.
Four academic schools, founded by the professors V.G. Averin (“Comparative
and Ecological Approach in Population Dynamics Research”), O.O. Mihulin (“The
Problems of the Dynamic of Harmful Organisms Population”), B.M. Lytvynov
(“Ecologically Oriented System of Fruit Plantings Protection from Pests”), and
Ye.M. Biletskyi (“The Problem of the Long Term Forecasting of Mass Reproduction
of Harmful Insects”) were formed at the Department.
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