Kuibyshev Agricultural Experimental Station

(Kuibyshev Oblast, RSFSR), organized in 1903 on the initiative of I. N. Klingen and originally known as the Bezenchuk Local Agricultural Experimental Station. From 1910 to 1916 its director was Academician N. M. Tulaikov. Both the trend in its scientific research and the name of the station have changed. Since 1963 it has been known by its present name.

In 1972 the Kuibyshev Agricultural Experimental Station had departments of selection, nonirrigated agriculture, irrigated agriculture, primary seed development, animal husbandry, and economics, as well as agrochemical, technological, and plant protection laboratories. Experimental fields cover 700 hectares (ha), and 16,400 ha are used for both experimental and production farming. There are two pedigree farms specializing in the Bestuzhev breed of cattle and large white pigs, respectively.

The station works on problems of the selection of grain and fodder crops and on certain problems of animal husbandry. Regionalized varieties developed by the station include Bezenchuk yellow-grained winter rye, Bezenchuk 98 soft, strong spring wheat, which was sown on 4.6 million ha in the USSR in 1970, Kuibyshev alfalfa, and Bezenchuk 9 awnless brome grass.