Novoaleksandriia Institute of Agriculture and Forestry

Novoaleksandriia Institute of Agriculture and Forestry 

one of the first agricultural higher educational institutions in Europe. It was founded in Marymont, near Warsaw, in 1816 as an agronomical institute. After consolidation with the Warsaw Forestry School in 1840, it was renamed the Institute of Agriculture and Forestry. In the 1860’s it was moved to Novoaleksandriia (Puławy, Poland). In 1892, at the initiative of V. V. Dokuchaev, who was a teacher at and director of the institute, it was accorded equal standing with the universities of Russia. In 1914 it was evacuated to Kharkov, where in 1921 it was reorganized as the Kharkov Agricultural Institute, which was later named after V. V. Dokuchaev. In 1916 the Scientific Research Institute of Agriculture was organized from the subdivisions that remained in Novoaleksandriia. This institute existed until 1951, after which it was absorbed by various institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the Polish People’s Republic.