In memory of the scientist :: GARKUSHA Ivan Fedoseevich

Ivan Fedoseevich Garkusha (29.04.1896, v. Gorodishche, Gorodishchi district, Kiev region, Ukraine - 08.08.1970), soil scientist. Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (1961), Academician of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the BSSR (1959-1961), Doctor of Agricultural Sciences (1954), Professor (1954). Honored Scientist of the BSSR (1956).

— Graduated from Kherson Agricultural Institute (1928).
— In 1933-1942 - Senior Researcher at the All-Union Institute of Fertilizers, Agrotechnics and Soil Science, at the same time - Head of the Department of Soil Science and Agriculture of the Leningrad Higher Communist Agricultural School named after S.M. Kirov, in 1942-1944 - Director of the Soil-Agronomic Laboratory of the Turkmen branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Ashgabat.
— In 1944-1952 - Vice Rector, in 1952-1965 - Rector and at the same time - Head of the Department of the Belarusian Agricultural Academy.

Scientific works in the field of agronomic soil science, geography, genesis, fertility and evolution of sod-podzolic and peat-marsh soils under the influence of cultivation.

Author of more than 90 scientific papers, incl. 5 monographs.

Prize named after V.R. Vilyams (1947, 1957) for the textbook "Soil Science" (Moscow, 1940; 6th ed., 1962) and the monograph "Soil culture as the modern stage of soil formation" (Moscow, 1956).

Awarded with the Order of Lenin (1961), the Red Banner of Labor (1958), the Badge of Honor (1949), medals.

Major papers:

Краткий курс агропочвоведения. Л., 1938.
Основы геологии и минералогии. Мн., 1948.
Почвоведение. Л.; М.: Сельхозиздат, 1962.