In memory of the scientist :: NIKITCHENKO Ivan Nikolaevich

Ivan Nikolaevich Nikitchenko (10.01.1939, v. Goritsy, Pogar district, Bryansk region, Russia – 20.11.2010), a scientist in the field of animal breeding. Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (1986), Doctor of Agricultural Sciences (1979), Professor (1981).

— Graduated from Vitebsk Veterinary Institute (1960).
— Since 1968 - Researcher, Head of sector, Head of the Breeding Center of the Belarusian Research Institute of Livestock.
— Since 1986 - Deputy Chairman of the State Agro-Industrial Association of the BSSR, since 1988 - Chairman of the Western Branch of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, at the same time - Vice-Chairman of the State Agricultural Committee of the BSSR.
— Since 1991 - General Director of the Research Institute "Agronauka", since 1993 - Vice-President of the National Center of Strategic Studies.
— Deputy of the Supreme Council of the BSSR in 1985-1990.

Research on the development of genetic and mathematical methods for the analysis of breeding work and automated control systems in livestock breeding, on the creation of new specialized pig lines. Developed predictive metabolic indices, methods for predicting the productivity and genetic susceptibility of animals to diseases and stress.

Author of over 280 scientific papers, incl. 6 monographs, 5 inventions.

Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR in 1980 for the development and implementation in the BSSR of an effective system of breeding in pig breeding, the creation of a Belarusian intrabreeding type of pigs of large white and Belarusian black-and-white breeds.

Major papers:

Системы ведения сельского хозяйства Белорусской ССР. Мн.: Ураджай, 1986 (в соавт.).
Гетерозис в свиноводстве. Л.: Агропромиздат, 1987.
Адаптация, стрессы и продуктивность сельскохозяйственных животных. Мн.: Ураджай, 1988 (в соавт.).
Энциклопедия сельского хозяина. Мн.: БелЭн, 1994.
Чернобыль: как это было. Мн., 1999.