Michurinsk (until 1932 - Kozlov) is a city in the Tambov region of Russia, a science city, located on the right bank of the Lesnoy Voronezh River. The administrative center of Michurinsky district, which is not included. It is a city of regional significance. Forms the urban district of the city of Michurinsk. Population 90 722 people. (2020).
Soviet street
Soviet street. The central street of Michurinsk is
distinguished not only by a large number of architectural monuments
compared to other streets, but also by a noticeable walking character;
The street is not completely pedestrian, but the transit movement of
cars on it is limited. In its very central part (between Revolutionary
and Karl Marx) the street turns into a boulevard, and a little to the
south it adjoins the central city park.
1 Church of Elijah the
Prophet, 349 Sovetskaya Street. Built in 1781, allegedly according to
the design of one of the capital's architects, and draws attention to
itself with unusual proportions: as if every part of the temple was
taken from somewhere else. Massive, tall and elongated in plan, the main
volume of the church ends with a reduced cupola. The bell tower itself
is low, but ends with a spire comparable to it in height and volume.
This picture is complemented by a gate and a chapel, which are 100 years
younger than the church, and built in the style familiar to those times.
Nearby (Militsionnaya street, 10) is the mansion of the merchant
Blaznina in the Art Nouveau style.
2 Trade buildings, Sovetskaya st.,
296, 298, 337.
3 Women's Gymnasium, Sovetskaya st., 274. Now the
Pedagogical Institute is located. Near the mansion in the style of
classicism.
4 House of merchant Polyansky, Sovetskaya st., 291. 1908.
Now the building is occupied by the city administration.
International street
5 Building of a commercial school, 101
Internatsionalnaya st. Now Michurinsk Agrarian University.
6 Grave of
I.A. Michurin, International st.
7 House in the style of classicism,
International street, 100.
South Center
8 M.F. Yurieva, st.
Gagarin, 18. The most unusual house in Michurinsk is hiding on a
secondary street in one of the most unsightly corners of the historical
center. This is a baroque mansion, unusual for the Russian provinces, on
which every suitable place is decorated with stucco. No less unexpected
is the fact that such a building was built for an art workshop
specializing in temple murals. The mansion was under construction for
several years and was completed by 1873 (not a typo: much later than the
Baroque era), but then the owner of the workshop, M.F. Yuryev for almost
30 years supplemented it with details. Yuriev's heirs, however, were not
so sensitive to the mansion and almost immediately sold it to the
brewery. Since early Soviet times, the building has been occupied by a
school; unfortunately, it is in a shabby state, and double-glazed
windows will upset fans of authenticity, but even in this form it is
still impressive.
9 Bogolyubsky Cathedral, Gerasimova Street, 86. The
grandiose (more than 60 meters high) cathedral of the Tonovsky project
was built for 25 years, from 1848 to 1873, and the bell tower for it was
never built at all. Due to its location in the lowest point of the city
center, the cathedral does not dominate the city, but forms a very
surreal perspective of Filippov and Gerasimov streets. Around the
cathedral are the contemporary buildings of the former monastery, and
across the road is the house-museum of the artist A.M. Gerasimov.
Outskirts
10 Sorrow Church, st. Novy Kvartal (outside the center,
near the bus station, on the way to Michurinsk-Voronezhsky station).
Cemetery church, built in 1803-1808. The combination of a church form
more characteristic of the Baroque and details taken from classicism,
such as a portico with columns, is curious. The cemetery around the
temple also attracts attention - with colorful iron crosses and the
absence of trees.
11 Holy Trinity Kozlovsky Monastery. The Assumption
Church of 1672 has been preserved, but in a heavily rebuilt form. In
Soviet times, it was used as a museum of the Central Genetic Laboratory
located nearby.
Michurinsky Museum of Local Lore (Sovetskaya st., 297g)
The
Michurinsk Museum of Local Lore, created on the initiative of the artist
S.I. Krivolutsky as an art and industrial museum, is one of the oldest
cultural centers in the city. The first exhibition of objects for the
museum was held in February 1904 in the hall of the commercial school.
During its history, the museum has changed more than one name and
experienced repeated changes in the place of storage and display of
exhibits. In March 1992, the local history museum moved from the
building of the Elias Church to the building of the former house of
political education, located in the city center (in house No. 297-g on
Sovetskaya Street). This building was built at the expense of the
merchant Strelnikov in 1905. The museum opened to visitors in September
1994 and was represented by two departments - the department of the
history of Kozlov XVII-XVIII centuries and the art department, which
exhibited an exhibition of works by A.V. Platitsyn. The museum has a
rich exposition located in the halls of: military glory, the history of
the city of Kozlov-Michurinsk, nature, the history of Orthodoxy, the
Great Patriotic War, honorary citizens of Michurinsk, and regularly
holds various exhibitions.
Literary and Musical Museum (House of
Princes Golitsyns) (Gagarin St., 4a)
In June 1982, the Michurinskaya
Pravda newspaper published a letter about the need to create a literary
and musical museum in the city, indicating one of the possible addresses
- the house of the Golitsyn princes. The author of the letter, which was
signed by prominent creative people of Michurinsk, was Professor, Doctor
of Agricultural Sciences E. S. Chernenko. In 1991, the restoration of
the building began with the simultaneous collection of the collection,
which then formed the basis of the exposition. The opening of the
literary and musical museum (the house of the princes Golitsyns) took
place on June 25, 1995. The museum has a rich collection that tells
about the former owners of the mansion, about the literary and musical
traditions of Michurinsk (former Kozlov) and the Tambov region. The
rarest exhibit among the many musical instruments presented in the
museum is the piano "Wilhelm Bizet" of 1771, which, according to some
information, was preserved here from the owners of the house. In the old
mansion of the Golitsyn princes, exhibitions are organized, performances
by artists and young talents are held, and the annual merchant evening
is also held here.
Museum-estate of A. M. Gerasimov (Gerasimov
street, 88)
The Memorial Museum-Estate of the People's Artist of the
USSR A. M. Gerasimov was opened on March 15, 1977. In addition to the
house, it includes courtyard buildings - a carriage house and a barn,
which housed the artist's studio after 1930. On the territory of the
estate, next to the workshop, there is a terrace on which Alexander
Mikhailovich liked to work. The museum contains authentic items of the
Gerasimov family - furniture, documents and photographs that reflect the
entire life of the artist.
In 1981, on the occasion of the 100th
anniversary of the birth of A. M. Gerasimov, an exhibition hall was
built, where the largest collection of the artist's works is exhibited.
House-Museum of I. V. Michurin (on the territory of the nursery)
The museum was founded in 1941 in the house where I. V. Michurin lived
and worked from 1900 to 1935. This is a two-story brick building with a
wooden veranda, which was built in 1899-1900. I. V. Michurin received
prominent statesmen and scientists, famous poets and writers in his
house. The exposition of the house-museum consists of personal
belongings, books, photographs and documents of the scientist. The
house-museum is located on the territory of the nursery and is under the
jurisdiction of the All-Russian Research Institute of Genetics and
Breeding of Fruit Plants. I. V. Michurina.
Museum of Achievements
of Michurin Science (branch of the Michurin Museum of Local Lore) (on
the territory of the nursery)
In October 2015, a branch branch of the
Michurin Museum of Local Lore was opened - the Museum of Achievements of
Michurin Science, in a two-story wooden building on the territory of the
house-museum of I. V. Michurin, where from 1952 to 1957 the famous
scientist, student and follower of I. V. Michurin lived, Academician of
the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences P. N. Yakovlev.
Michurinsky Drama Theater
The opening of the theater in the city
took place in 1897 at the expense of the merchants Zlobins in the
rebuilt building of their tobacco factory. The new theater building on
Piteynaya (Gogolevskaya) Street was built in 1913 to replace the former
one that burned down in 1909. The theater hosted well-known stage
directors and actors of the capital's theaters, such as the Adelgeim
Brothers, Pavel Orlenev, Mammoth Dalsky, a troupe led by N.
Sobolshchikov-Samarin. Writer Ivan Bunin and playwright Chirikov
performed on the theater stage. In the theater for seven years
(1918-1925), the future President of the Academy of Arts of the USSR A.
M. Gerasimov worked as an artist-decorator. In Soviet and post-Soviet
times, the theater also received many celebrities. In 1981, for a
performance based on the modern play by I. Gladkikh "White Fire", the
theater was awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR. K. S. Stanislavsky
(for the first time among the small towns of Russia). The theater is a
repeated participant of international and regional festivals.
Cinema "October"
The cinema was built in 1939 by architect V.
Kalmykov. The building of the cinema is an adornment of the city due to
its unique appearance with a unique shape and sculptural group. It has
three cinema halls for showing films in 3D, decorated and equipped with
the latest requirements for design and comfort.
In Michurinsk, since 2005, the All-Russian exhibition "Gardener's
Day" has been held annually, the participants of which are scientists,
production workers, managers and leading specialists of horticultural
and nursery farms, amateur gardeners from different parts of Russia and
from abroad. The exhibition demonstrates the latest achievements of the
industry, introduces new technologies in horticulture, exchanges
production and scientific experience, and attracts investments.
For many years, the city has been hosting a regional festival of
author's tourist songs in memory of Irina Konstantinovna Belyaeva, a
teacher at the Station of Young Tourists, who tragically died in one of
the campaigns in 1998. From a modest cultural event, first organized in
1999, the festival has grown to the level of a city holiday for
tourists.
In the autumn of 2018, as part of the annually
celebrated City Day, the festival of "heavy" music - "Rock-Yabloko" was
held for the first time, which is planned to be made annual. The
legendary band Legion with their vocalist Alexei Bulgakov, members of
the famous band Kachalov's Dogs - Max Ilyin and Alexander Bardin, the
rock band Mavrin with their founder and leader Sergei Mavrin, the
legendary vocalist Artur Berkut, group "Znaki".
By plane
The nearest airport with regular (but not too frequent)
flights is in Tambov.
By train
Michurinsk is a railway
junction on the main line from Moscow to the south (within the city, a
line to Tambov and Saratov branches off from it); all trains passing
through it stop in the city. From Moscow they go from 4.5 to 9 hours,
the fastest and most convenient is the Voronezh double-decker express (2
times a day). To Voronezh 2-3 hours, to Saratov - 7-8, to Rostov-on-Don
or Volgograd - at least 10.
Electric trains run infrequently:
three or four times a day to Tambov (1.5 hours), twice a day to Gryaz
(1.5 hours), Ryazhsk (2 hours) and Ranenburg (Chaplygin, 1.5 hours).
There are two stations in Michurinsk, each train (except for some
electric trains) stops at only one of them. Michurinsk-Uralsky is a
dead-end station, where trains turning towards Tambov call in (and it is
also the starting point for all electric trains), all the rest pass
through Michurinsk-Voronezhsky. Between stations a little more than 4
km.
1 Michurinsk-Voronezh, st. Kirsanovskaya (western outskirts
of the city, minibuses 2 and 15 go). A freshly renovated small station
with minimal infrastructure - a waiting room and a toilet; There is a
grocery store near the train station. For its passenger traffic is
frankly small.
2 Michurinsk-Uralsky, pl. Privokzalnaya (slightly
north of the city center). around the clock. There is the basic
infrastructure laid down by a major train station. There are two
supermarkets near the station. The city center is within walking
distance, but you can also get there by bus.
By bus
There are
buses from Tambov with an interval of half an hour or an hour, on the
way 1.5 hours. In the morning they start running quite early, but they
finish early in the evening: as of winter 2022, the last bus from Tambov
to Michurinsk leaves at about 19 hours, and from Michurinsk to Tambov is
about 17 at all. When traveling from Tambov, you can not go to the
Michurinsky bus station, but get off in the center on International
Street.
Other routes: 4-5 times a day you can go to Gryazi (1.5
hours), three times - to Lipetsk (1.5-2 hours). Buses going along the
highway past Michurinsk (for example, from Moscow to Tambov or
Volgograd) usually do not call into the city.
3 Bus station (bus
station), Lipetskoe sh., 12 (to the west of the center, most city buses
pass). ☎ +7 (47545) 5-23-04, +7 (47545) 5-15-95. 5:30 - 17:00. The
waiting room is very small, however, there was a place for a buffet with
tea and cakes. The cashier does not accept credit cards.
By car
A few kilometers from the city passes the highway P22 "Caspian"
Moscow-Volgograd (according to the old numbering M6). From Tambov -
about 70 km of a four-lane road, but in the direction of Moscow (400 km)
to the Moscow region itself, a two-lane highway. There are three roughly
equivalent routes to Lipetsk (90 km); all of them involve at least some
segment on local roads.
Buses and minibuses, most of the routes intersect at Glory Square. The fare is 22 rubles. in cash and 20 rubles. by bank card (2021).
The first settler in these places is the hermit Joseph, who settled
here in 1627. Other hermits began to flock to Joseph, who formed a
community and built the Church of the Holy Trinity. In 1635 the
community was renamed the Kozlovsky Trinity Monastery.
Kozlov was
founded on the Kozlov tract by the sovereign decree of Tsar Mikhail
Fedorovich, dated September 5, 1635, as a fortified point (earthen town)
for the defense of the Ryazan principality, as well as Shatsk, Ryazha
and Dankovsky places from the raids of the Crimean and Nogai Tatars.
The construction of the fortress, on the banks of the Lesnoy
Voronezh River, near the Kozlovsky Trinity Monastery, was led by the
governors I. Birkin (Burkin) and M. Speshnev. In their "Reply" they
described the newly founded fortress as follows ... and on Kozlov, the
tract, by your sovereign decree, asking God for mercy ... a prison,
which should be instead of a city, was overlaid on October 11th. And the
room, sire, is about three hundred and seventy sazhens <...> And the
bridge will be on the prison along the policeman with oblams, and the
towers will be two passers-by, and eight towers are deaf, and the tower
is near the hiding place, and there will be a ditch near the prison ...
and the hiding place will be brought - from the tower to the Voronezh
River at the guard walls to the Voronezh River twenty-one sazhens, and
the well of the sovereign in the city to your servants, there is no one
to dig, there are no craftsmen and tackle wells ... And the church ...
was overlaid in the name of the Most Holy Theotokos of the honest and
glorious Intercession of October on the 18th day.
The toponym
"Kozlovo tract", in turn, has two versions of its origin, both of which
were assigned to the area at the end of the 16th century. According to
one version, the area has been famous since ancient times for its
pasture meadows, where there were many wild goats. Another version comes
from the name of Simeon Kozlov's own - the guardsman of Ivan the
Terrible and the first settler of these regions.
From January
1647 until the summer of 1648, Roman Fedorovich Boborykin was the
governor in Kozlov.
In 1708 the city was assigned to the Azov
province. From the 18th century, Kozlov developed as a major trading
center in an agricultural region. Academician Falk, who visited Kozlov
in 1769, found that it was larger and more populous than Tambov, but it
was built worse and its inhabitants were engaged in more rural crafts,
although there were 1,064 merchants in it. In 1779, Kozlov received the
status of the county town of the Tambov governorship.
In the 19th
century, trade in bread, cattle, silk, cloth, fish, salt flourished in
the city, and there were also handicrafts. In the second half of the
19th century, the processing of agricultural raw materials arose (mills,
slaughterhouses, distilleries and fat-burning plants, tobacco factories,
an elevator). By the end of the century, there were two iron foundries,
a bell factory, and large railway workshops in Kozlov. At the same time,
the architectural appearance of Kozlov was formed, which has largely
been preserved to this day.
In 1909, about 43,000 inhabitants of
both sexes lived in the county town of the Tambov province. There were
30 factories and plants, with a production of 1,025,000 rubles, mills, a
railway junction station and near-station railway workshops were
operating. A huge shipment of bread was made: especially rye and wheat
flour. There was a significant trade in meat (meat products).
On
November 27 (December 10), 1917, after a month-long confrontation with
the City Duma, Soviet power was established in Kozlov. On January 6
(19), 1918, a large demonstration in support of the Constituent Assembly
was shot. On June 16, 1918, an uprising of the Kozlov garrison against
the Reds broke out, suppressed by the Latvians. From September 1918 to
August 1919, the headquarters of the Southern Front was located in the
city. On August 22, 1919, after a stubborn battle, Kozlov was occupied
by the Cossacks for several days during the horse raid of General
Mamantov, while the city suffered significant damage during the
fighting.
On February 23, 1932, in honor of the breeder I. V.
Michurin (during his lifetime), the city of Kozlov was renamed
Michurinsk.
On November 6, 1957, the first batch of products was
produced by the Progress plant, which later became the main industrial
enterprise of the city.
In 1985, Michurinsk was awarded the Order
of the Badge of Honor.
The main brand of Michurinsk is apples, and thanks to underground
fruit storages, they are sold all year round. The easiest way is to buy
them on the market (but it is better to specify their origin there),
there are also stand-alone stalls with apples, and just people selling
their own harvest. Sold in the city and other agricultural products,
which are rich in black earth. Also in Michurinsk, seedlings are
actively traded, but those who come from outside the Chernozem region
should be especially careful about buying them - they may not be
suitable for your climatic conditions.
1 Central market, st.
Filippova, between the Soviet and International streets. Open except
Mon, active mostly until noon. It takes about 2 blocks and tries to
spread even further.
There are enough supermarkets and grocery stores
both in the center and on the outskirts.
1 City cafe "Teapot" , st. Sovetskaya, 300. ☎ +7 (47545) 5-08-28.
Mon–Thu 10:00–23:00, Fri 10:00–24:00, Sat 12:00–24:00, Sun 12:00– 23:00.
Cozy city cafe on the main street. A menu with an emphasis on pizza and
other dishes of mass-Italian cuisine in its Russian sense.
2 Cafe
"Pizza" , st. International, 87a. 10:00–23:00. The leader in the
non-originality of its name and at the same time a good cafe with
service and a full menu, and not just pizza at all.
3 Coffee house
"Wheel" , Sovetskaya st. 304. 9:00–21:00. Western-style coffee shop,
i.e. no hot food, only desserts. A narrow hall where tables stand along
a window or wall and are more conducive to sitting alone.
4 Bakery
"Khlebushki", Sovetskaya st. 309. 8:00–21:00. Bakery with pies of all
kinds. There are several tables.
5 Dining room at home,
Internatsionalnaya st. 86. Mon–Fri 8:00–16:30.
1 Pub&Shop 52.40 , Sovetskaya st. 292a. Mon–Thurs 17:00–24:00, Fri 17:00–2:00, Sat 16:00–2:00, Sun 16:00–24:00. Michurinsk is a city so advanced that it even has its own small craft bar. The name may evoke associations with some Caucasian peak, but in fact it is the geographical latitude and longitude of Michurinsk.
1 Snezhkov's estate, state farm named after Michurin. In Michurinsk,
everything is connected with the name of Michurin - even such a romantic
place as an abandoned estate with an old park, where guests are first of
all greeted by a bust of a breeder in a cowboy hat. Michurin acquired a
plot in the suburb of Kozlov, near the Turmasovo settlement, in 1888 -
it was his first "capital" nursery. But after a few years it became
clear that the soils on the site were too fertile, and therefore not
very suitable for breeding. By 1900, Michurin moved his plantings to
another site (where his house-museum is now located), and the land was
acquired by Vasily Snezhkov, the leader of the district nobility, later
a deputy of the State Duma. The new owner built an unusual manor house,
most of all resembling a small Mediterranean villa and laid out a park.
In Soviet times, the estate building was used for various needs of the
national economy (the technical school occupied it for the longest
time), and in post-Soviet times it simply stands abandoned. Entrance to
the territory is free, but the manor house is locked
2 Church of St.
John the Evangelist in Izosimovo. An infrequent wooden church in the
Tambov region, and even built in 1783, although later rebuilt in the
second half of the 19th century. In Soviet times, it was not closed and
retained the original interior.
3 Urlyapov shaft.
4 Church of Michael the Archangel in Staroseslavino. Built in 1887
according to the project of Feofil Svirchevsky, whose efforts many
Tambov churches look so neat and elegant. Svirchevsky relied on
traditional, "mass" projects in the Russian-Byzantine style, but every
time he embellished them a little. In Staroseslavino, he managed to
achieve a remarkable harmony of round windows and "creeping" tiers of
the bell tower. The church was returned to believers already in 1947;
murals and authentic iconostases have been preserved inside.
5 Church in New Kozmodemyanovsky. Another fantasy on the
Russian-Byzantine theme is the church of 1890 with a large semicircular
arch, reminiscent of an old Seslav church and containing intricate stone
carvings in the manner of either Russian or Gothic.
Pervomaisky is
an urban-type settlement and regional center, better known to travelers
as Bogoyavlensk by the railway station, which retained its “politically
incorrect” name even in Soviet times. The Ryazhsky and Paveletsky lines
converge here, and therefore almost all trains of the southern direction
follow, and many even make a short stop. The station does not have a
great transit value, although it is closer than others to the R-22
highway and allows you to jump from car to train if you are hitchhiking.
The village itself was built up in the post-war period, there is even a
“German quarter” here, but built not by captured Germans, but by GDR
specialists who arrived in the 1980s to design and maintain a compressor
station on the nearby Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline. Despite all
the gas wars, the pipeline is still working properly, and Pervomaiskoye
is now Gazprom's training center.
Staroyurevo is a large village northeast of Michurinsk, a typical
Tambov district center. In the surrounding fields they grow the same
Tambov potatoes, a guarantee of local prosperity. In summer, the
Shushpan Pike Festival is held here with mass cooking of fish soup and a
sport fishing competition at the nearby Shushpan reservoir.
6
Museum of A.N. Verstovsky, Staroyurevo, st. Communal, 3a. The now
forgotten character is the composer A.N. Verstovsky (1799-1862), the
same age as Pushkin, author of many operas and vaudevilles, popular in
secular circles in the middle of the 19th century. His "Askold's Grave"
is still being erected today. The museum carefully collected information
about the life of Verstovsky and even related items from the family
collection. Along the way, the museum performs the functions of a
regular local history museum.
7 Novikov's estate
(Novoaleksandrovka). The publicist and zemstvo activist Alexander
Novikov (1861-1913) lived in a village near Staroyuryev, to whom the
Kozlovsky district owes, among other things, the creation of new
schools. In his native village, Novikov equipped not only the
second-class "parochial" school, usual for that time, but also a
teacher's school, that is, a school for training teachers, from which an
agricultural technical school later grew, which, by the way, is still
operating to this day - an infrequent case in the village , which is not
even a regional center. Both school buildings - a half-stone
second-class school and a two-story red-brick building of a technical
school - are well preserved, along with fragments of the manor park and
Novikov's own house, converted into a club. In addition, Novikov was one
of the initiators of the construction of a dead-end railway to
Staroyuryevo and Sosnovka, which also miraculously survived: in the
summer months, a commuter train still runs in Staroyuryevo.
8 Shushpan reservoir. The reservoir on the Shushpanka River, a
tributary of the Lesnoy Voronezh, is often called the "sea" - for its
size (the largest in the Tambov region) and considerable depth. It is
here that fish are caught during the Shushpan Pike festival.
9 Ekaterininsky arboretum.
Michurinsk is the all-Russian center of horticulture, the city is
home to the I. V. Michurin All-Russian Research Institute of
Horticulture, the I. V. Michurin All-Russian Scientific Research
Institute of Genetics and Selection of Fruit Plants (former I. V.
Michurin Central Genetic Laboratory (CGL), Michurinsky Michurinsk State
Agrarian University, Michurinsk State Pedagogical Institute (attached to
the Agrarian University in autumn 2011. In addition, the city has a
local history museum, A. M. Gerasimov's estate museum, an exhibition
hall, a drama theater. The editorial offices of two city newspapers are
located in Michurinsk : "Michurinskaya Pravda", "Michurinskaya Thought"
and the editors of the regional newspaper "Our Word".
Decree of
the President of the Russian Federation of November 4, 2003 No. 1306 “On
the assignment of the status of a science city of the Russian Federation
to the city of Michurinsk, Tambov Region”, the first and only science
city in Russia in the agro-industrial complex, approved the main
directions of scientific, scientific, technical and innovative
activities, experimental development, testing and personnel training,
which are a priority for Michurinsk - science city of the Russian
Federation:
fundamental research in the field of genetics,
breeding, biotechnology, physiology, biochemistry, ecology of fruit,
berry and vegetable crops, identifying mechanisms for stabilizing the
stability and productivity of horticultural and vegetable
agroecosystems;
development of experimental, environmentally friendly
technologies for the production, long-term storage, transportation and
processing of fruit and vegetable products with a high content of
biologically active substances;
scientific and technical innovation,
experimental development and testing in the field of production of
technical means, obtaining environmentally friendly raw materials, new
types of food products for health, treatment and prevention, functional
and other purposes; training of personnel for work in the
agro-industrial complex, in the fields of scientific, humanitarian and
innovative activities.
Gudkovsky Vladimir Alexandrovich was elected
Chairman of the Scientific and Technical Council of the city of
Michurinsk-Science City of the Russian Federation.
In 2010, the
administration of the Tambov region and the administration of
Michurinsk-science city took the initiative to create an agrotechnopark
in Michurinsk, the creation of which was enshrined in the Decree of the
Government of the Russian Federation dated December 27, 2010 No. 2393-r.
The Green Valley project focuses both on the processing of agricultural
raw materials directly at the enterprises of the agrotechnopark, and on
its cultivation. It is supposed to produce plant foods for a healthy
diet with predetermined properties at the level of genetics, processing,
and packaging.