VASKhNIL
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VASKhNIL (Russian language: ВАСХНИЛ) was the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the Soviet Union.

It operated from 1929 to 1992 (dissolution of the Soviet Union).

VASKhNIL Chiefs

• 1929 — 1935 — Nikolai Vavilov
• 1935 — 1937 — Alexander Muralov
• 1938 — 1956 — Trofim Lysenko
• 1959 — 1961 — Pavel Lobanov
• 1961 — 1962 — Trofim Lysenko, second term
• 1962 — 1965 — Mikhail Olshanskiy
• 1965 — 1978 — Pavel Lobanov, second term
• 1978 — 1983 — Petr Vavilov
• 1984 — 1992 — Alexander Nikonov

On February 4, 1992 the Academy ceased to exist. The Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Russian: РАСН) was founded instead.

External links

• LibWorld - Central Scientific Agricultural Library (CSAL)

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