St. Petersburg Federal Research Center
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

On September 22, 2020 Chief Researcher, Academician of RAS A. I. Kostyaev, Chief Researcher, Corresponding Member of RAS G. N. Nikonov and Researcher E. S. Vouba took part in the scientific conference dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the Imperial Moscow Society of Agriculture "Historical Heritage of Moscow Society of Agriculture and modernization of the agrarian sector of Russia”.

At 10:00 Moscow time took place the Plenary Meeting of the conference; in the introductory part the floor was given to Academician of RAS, Doctor of Tech. Sci. Professor, Academician-Secretary of the Department of Agricultural Sciences of RAS  Yu. F. Lachuga; Academician of RAS, Doctor of Agricultural Sci., Doctor of Economics, Professor, Rector of Russian State Agrarian University - MTAA named after Timiryazev V. I. Trukhachev; Corresponding Member of RAS, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Member of the Presidium of VEO of Russia, Vice-Rector for Science FSEI HPE "Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation" D. E. Sorokin. Academician of RAS, doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of All-Russian Institute of Agrarian Problems and Informatics named after A. A. Nikonov –the branch FSC of Agrarian Economy and Social Development of Rural Territories A.V. Petrikov was appointed a Chairman of the Plenary Session of the Conference "Historical Heritage of Moscow Society of Agriculture and modernization of the agrarian sector of Russia”.

Research presentations were delivered by: Academician of RAS A. I. Kostyaev: “Moscow Society of Agriculture and the North-West of Russia”; Doctor of History, Leading Researcher of the Institute of Russian History of RAS S.A. Kozlov:  “Moscow Society of Agriculture: Historical Experience”; Academician of RAS, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Scientific Leader at the Institute of Economics and Management of AIC RSAU-MTAA named after K. A. Timiryazev V. M. Batutin: “Moscow Society of Agriculture and Petrovskaya Agricultural and Forestry Academy”; Doctor of Jurisprudence, Doctor of History, Professor, Leading Researcher at the HSE University Center for Research on Civil Society and non-Profit Sector A. S. Tumanova:  “Economic and Educational Activities of Moscow Society of Agriculture and Free Economic Society in the Context of the Civil Society Formation in Russia at the Beginning of the XX Century”; Candidate of History, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, Head of Department of Collecting and Documents’ Library Processing CSAL V. A. Nokhrina: “Publications of Moscow Society of Agriculture as sources for Studying the Agrarian Thought Development in Russia (to the 200th Anniversary of the Society 1820-1930)”; Doctor of Tech. Sci., Professor, Chair of Agroinformatics Department  at the Faculty of Soil Science, Lomonosov MSU D. M. Khomyakov: “MSA and  Agricultural Museum in Russia”; Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, Scientific Secretary of Polytechnic Museum S. G. Morozova: “Moscow Museum of Applied Knowledge: IMSA’s Contribution to Creation and Development”; Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Doctor of History, Professor,  Chair of the Russian History Department at Samara State University P. S. Kabytov:  “The Role of Agricultural Societies and Zemstvo Agronomy in Extension  of New Agricultural Practices over Samara Province” and Doctor of Agricultural Sciences (University of Hohenheim, Germany), Regional Director of Eastern Europe, DLG e.V. (German Agricultural Society) O. Hunger: “The Idea of Agricultural Society in the Context of the Past and the Future, Inside and Outside National Borders”.