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Agroecology and labour protection department

Agroecology and labour protection department was founded in 2002 on the basis of Land Management and Farming Institute. The department trains specialists in one of the most up-to-date professions – agronomists-ecologists.

At present the department has at its disposal highly equipped laboratories and classrooms for lectures and practical classes. The department material resources allow to train specialists on high professional level.

The key personnel of the department conduct classes not only at the Institute itself but the teachers together with the students practice exit classes. For example they took part in the programme “Ecological path” in the Komarov preserve, had practical classes in the dendrarium, on the purification works, on Khanka River, visited “Pavlovskiy” coal field in Mikhailovskiy district. On such classes the students learn on practice the ways of ecological load estimation on the environment and it helps them to fix theoretical knowledge acquired by them at the Institute classes. On the excursion to “Primorskaya Soya” close company the students saw the production technology, purification works functioning, the estimation methodology of pollution substances concentration in sewage waters. Excursion to the interregional veterinary laboratory branch is aimed at familiarization with the most up-to-date equipment for the production quality assessment.

The most important task of the agrarian institution is the training of highly qualified specialists in the most actual trends.

The teachers of the department do their utmost to form and develop the intellectual potential which makes possible the training of agronomist-ecologist capable of competent evaluation of ecological situation and making appropriate decisions.

The teaching staff of the department consists of eight persons, among them there are three candidates of science, four senior teachers and a laboratory head.

The students and teachers take an active part in research and social work. They annually participate in the student’s scientific and young scientists conferences and it helps them to raise training quality.  The department students formed the ecological club “Future” which actively cooperates with the local administration and administrative division of Ussuriisk. The club members carry out ecological actions, hold discussions with schoolchildren within a a framework of “the ecological education” programme.

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