A test field of the Kuban State Agriculture Institute (today the Kuban State Agrarian University) where rice has been grown according to the pesticide-free method suggested by the institute's scientists. Right: head of the institute's Agriculture and Melioration Department Valery Amelin, center: head of the Kuban test farm Gavriil Skrynnik and fifth-year student Natalya Bagny.15.08.1989#6625936
USSR Academy of Sciences Soil Sciences and Photosynthesis Institute Director Mikhail Sergeevich Kuznetsov.01.02.1988#3318093
Research associates V. Letun and S. Azizbekyan at the Institute of Physical-Organic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Belarusian SSR, now the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.22.03.1987#5825242
Academician Vladimir Soldatov, director of the Institute of Physical-Organic Chemistry of the Belorussian Academy of Sciences.22.03.1987#5825241
Lettuce (Khibiny cabbage) grows on artificial soil developed by scientists from the Institute of Physical-Organic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Belarusian SSR. This quick-ripening plant variety grows for 25 days inside greenhouses even during short sunshine periods in Siberia or the Ural region.22.03.1987#5825240
Houseplants growing in artificial soil created by scientists at the Institute of Physical Organic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR.22.03.1987#5825239
Institute for Soil Science and Photosynthesis, USSR Academy of Sciences (currently Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences). An employee monitors a plant's growth in the phytotrone.01.03.1983#8231792
Institute for Soil Science and Photosynthesis, USSR Academy of Sciences (currently Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences). Employees do research at one of the institute's laboratories.01.03.1983#8231791
Institute for Soil Science and Photosynthesis, USSR Academy of Sciences (currently Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences). The institute's employee N. Fadeyev, PhD in Biology, reads the meters.01.03.1983#8231787
Institute for Soil Science and Photosynthesis, USSR Academy of Sciences (currently Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences). Employees at the institute's computing center.01.03.1983#8231786
Institute for Soil Science and Photosynthesis, USSR Academy of Sciences (currently Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences). A sprout.01.03.1983#8231785
Institute for Soil Science and Photosynthesis, USSR Academy of Sciences (currently Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences). A laser lab employee at work.01.03.1983#8231782
Students at the Georgian Institute of Subtropical Farming (now Georgian State University of Subtropical Farming) doing a practicum project in the field. Sukhumi, Abkhaz ASSR, Georgian SSR.16.07.1982#8253800
Agricultural chemist and soil scientist Professor Tamara Kulakovskaya, Associate Member, Academy of Sciences of the Belarusian SSR, Director, Institute of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry.12.06.1981#8285953
As a result of open-quarry iron ore production on the territory of the Kursk Magnet Anomaly, more than 30,000 hectares of fertile soils were damaged. Scientists are trying to restore their fertility. Scientists of the Kursk Magnet Anomaly Research Institute on a corn field near Stary Oskol.08.08.1979#8160745
Timiryazev Agricultural Academy (currently Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy (RSAU – MAA named after K.A. Timiryazev). V. Aristanbekova, a graduate of the Academy.04.07.1977#6525817
Timiryazev Agricultural Academy (currently Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy (RSAU – MAA named after K.A. Timiryazev). Associate professor N. Toryanskaya, right, works with the master's student in thelaboratory of agricultural entomology, Department of Protection of Plants.04.07.1977#6525816
Timiryazev Agricultural Academy (currently Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy (RSAU – MAA named after K.A. Timiryazev). A graduate of the Academy whose tuition was paid for by a collective farm, is conferred her diploma.04.07.1977#6525815
A researcher works at a laboratory of the Photo Synthesis Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.25.05.1976#5503235
Irakly Sinyagin, Soviet agricultural chemist, academician of VASKhNIL (Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences), its president in 1965-1978 and head of the VASKhNIL Siberian Department.21.02.1975#5789355
The Central Research Laboratory for Nature Protection. Today's Russian Research Institute for Nature Protection. Bacteriologists take soil samples for chemical analysis and evaluation.05.07.1973#5702692
Soviet automatic interplanetary station "Luna-20" - a lunar sample return mission. The main result of the mission was delivering to the Earth 55 g of lunar soil. In this device the lunar soil samples were brought for research.01.03.1972#2673167
Soviet automatic interplanetary station "Luna-20" - a lunar sample return mission. The main result of the mission was delivering to the Earth 55 g of lunar soil. Capsule with lunar soil.01.03.1972#2672938
Soviet automatic interplanetary station "Luna-20" - a lunar sample return mission. The main result of the mission was delivering to the Earth 55 g of lunar soil. The lunar soil brought by "Luna-20" is a loose, uneven-grained substance of a light-grey color.01.03.1972#2672937
Soviet automatic interplanetary station "Luna 20" - an unmanned spacecraft designed to land on the Moon, take soil samples from the lunar surface and deliver them to the Earth. "Luna 20" returned 55 grams of lunar soil, which was the main result of the mission. Container filled with lunar soil.01.03.1972#2672916
A news conference at the Moscow House of Scientists on the flight of Luna 16 unmanned spacecraft which delivered samples of lunar soil to the Earth. President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Mstislav Keldysh gives a speech.28.10.1970#3012191
A news conference at the Moscow House of Scientists on the flight of Luna 16 unmanned spacecraft which delivered samples of lunar soil to the Earth. President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Mstislav Keldysh gives a speech.28.10.1970#3012189
The Belarusian SSR. Photo: The Kirov Belarusian Technological Institute, now the Belarusian State Technological University. Center: Pavel Rogovoi, a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Belarusian SSR, with second-years students of the Lumber Industry Department.25.03.1968#6077339
Head of the Energetics and Water Economy department of the Komi Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, polyglot Leonid Bratsev.01.01.1968#597676
Tulips in bloom in the Botanical Garden of the Biology Department of the Lomonosov Moscow State University in Leninsky Gory (now Vorobyovy Gory).14.06.1966#6034698
Tulips in bloom in the Botanical Garden of the Biology Department of the Lomonosov Moscow State University in Leninsky Gory (now Vorobyovy Gory).14.06.1966#6034695
Lomonosov Moscow State University. Alexander Perelman, Ph.D. in Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, geochemist, soil scientists, takes exams of the fifth-year students.06.01.1966#6291802
Lomonosov Moscow State University. Alexander Perelman, Ph.D. in Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, geochemist, soil scientists, takes exams of the fifth-year students.06.01.1966#6291801
Geothermic Lab. From the exhibition collection. Institute of Permafrost Studies in Yakutia, Yakutian ASSR.30.12.1964#6016105
