Globa O. The Kharkiv Agricultural and Scientific Centre in the field of Selective Breeding and Seedology: formation and activity (the end of the 19th century - the beginning of the 20th century)

The thesis is the complex research of Network Formation and Activity of Kharkiv Agricultural and Scientific Center in the field of Selective Breeding and Seedology. Chronological framer are determined by the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century starting from the conception moment of the first experimental institution in Kharkiv Province till the events in 1917 year. On the basis of large variety of sources the author has investigated and analysed the following: - the activity of experimental institutions in the field of common Ukrainian experimental developments; - the peculiarities of experimental programs and their distinctive features from the other similar institutions in Ukraine; - the scientific achievements of experimental institutions in the field of Selective Breeding and Seedology at the given moment of time. It has been noted that before Kharkiv Province was under the organization of the use of land and that was the defining factor for Selective Breeding. It has beensaid that due to Kharkiv Province the First Regional Model of Experimental Institution was established, while large privately owned farms practiced growing such field cultivations as spring wheat, winter rye, oats, barley though maize and sugar-beet in less quantities like 1-3 per cent. The author of this thesis has indicated the main factors which accelerated the formation of the first in Ukraine experimental institution - Kharkiv Selective Breeding Station which later became one of the most powerful Selective Breeding and Seedology centre. The author has analysed first years of the Station Activity. The main thing is that generally local field cultures were taken for Selective Breeding. The author has shown the process of appearing of different agricultural establishments and their financial Support, main goals and staff. The author has noted the correlation between the educational and experimental institutions as well as the scientific contibution of such outstanding scientists and agronomists, as Zaykevych A.E., Budrine P.B., Kuleshov N.N., Enken B.K. etc. This subject of the dissertation's research was not yet an object of the special learning complex of the prosses of condition and develop an agricultural science in the context of the universal national condition explorer affair in Ukraine. Archives and published source permited to characterized stages of forming, achievements Kharkiv agricultural scientific educational center and located his place in the social-economic develop of Ukraine. Lasting many years experience of the Ukrainian agronomists-practices of Kharkiv Province which arrangement in zone of critical agricultural, showed the main causes of found the selection institution in Kharkiv.