Michurinsk State Agrarian University

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Michurinsk State Agrarian University is one of the oldest Russian agricultural institutions of higher education. It has become well-known due to its unique scientific research in the sphere of horticulture and the training of qualified agricultural professionals. Michurinsk State Agrarian University used to be a Lawn-and-Garden Institute organized on the initiative of Ivan V. Michurin in 1931. In 1934 it was renamed Fruit-and-Vegetable Growing Institute, and in 1999 the institute was given university status. Since that time, about 40 thousand specialists in different branches of agriculture, working at agricultural and food production enterprises of the Russian Federation and abroad, have graduated from Michurinsk State Agrarian University. Nowadays, Michurinsk State Agrarian University:

• Offers the courses of professional training in 7 branches of agricultural science, leading to the Bachelor's or Master's degree
• Provides 38 trade programs, 27 refresher courses, and six professional retraining programs for agricultural specialists, as well as research and educational brainpower
• Carries out a wide variety of fundamental and applied scientific researches
• Improves the system of continuing education, which includes specially oriented courses at school, higher education, post-graduate studies, refresher and retraining courses

Scientific research projects are conducted at the university per the national program "Agro-Industrial Complex Development" and the "Program of Fundamental and Priority Applied Researches in the Agro-Industrial Complex," to provide the development of agriculture in the Russian Federation with a scientific basis. The university prepares scientific projects by request of some enterprises and institutions on a contractual basis. There are nine main branches of science in the focus of the university researchers' attention: agriculture, economics, engineering, biology, chemistry, teachers' training, philology, sociology.

The scientists of the university pay great attention to the development of new varieties and vegetable growing technologies. Great emphasis is placed on functional food production to help people sustain normal physiological parameters under stressful conditions. Unique vegetables growing, storage, and processing technologies for producing ecological ingredients for baby and diet food have been worked out. Much attention is given to biotechnological research. The university plays an essential role in developing the innovation program of Michurinsk as a scientific agricultural center of the Russian Federation.

Michurinsk State Agrarian University welcomes you to a dynamic higher education institution. This guide will help you find your way around Michurinsk State Agrarian University and offer vital information to any visitor. You can expect a well-structured student counseling service, tailor-made courses and study programs, well-supervised practical training and final projects, and multiple contacts with trade and industry in MSAU. The infrastructure (classrooms, laboratories, media centers) and facilities have been set up to provide an agreeable study environment. Student participation in MSAU development has been a longstanding tradition.

The past century has brought humanity not only civilization achievement and great new high technologies, but also immense environmental pollution, low-quality food, and informational and emotional stress, which negatively affects people's health. These problems are especially acute today all over the world. Let us try to solve them together. Our university offers its students a wide range of courses in the sphere of crop growing and food production and agricultural management, rural sociology, and life sciences. We do our best to enlarge our scientific achievements and to share our knowledge with students. In the nearest future, we see our university as an important scientific research center introducing innovative approaches to food production and agricultural management with stable growth of students' number, wishing to make the world better.

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