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).
[edit] VASKhNIL Chiefs
- 1929 — 1935 — Nikolai Vavilov
- 1935 — 1937 — Alexander Muralov
- 1938 — 1956 — Trofim Lysenko
- 1959 — 1961 — ?
- 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.
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