Beekeeping, Institute of

Beekeeping, Institute of 

(Scientific Research Institute of Beekeeping of the Ministry of Agriculture of the RSFSR), the leading establishment for research in beekeeping in the USSR, in Rybnoe, Riazan’ Oblast.

The Institute of Beekeeping was organized in 1930 from the Tula Experimental Beekeeping Station and the beekeeping division of the Moscow Agricultural Station. In 1974 it included departments of the rearing and care of bees; selection; prevention and control of bee diseases; bee biology; feed resources for beekeeping and bee pollination of entomophilous agricultural plants; the economics and organization of bee farms; and mechanization on bee farms. The institute manages one experimental station, five reference centers, and five experimental and commercial farms. It deals with such matters as the technology of producing beekeeping products, the improvement of existing strains and the establishment of new strains of bees, and the comprehensive mechanization of production processes. It is responsible for the coordination of research work and the systematic supervision of the study of beekeeping problems in the USSR. The institute has full-time and correspondence graduate study programs. It has published Trudy since 1947.