Saratov Agricultural Institute

an institute founded in 1913 to offer advanced courses in agriculture. In 1918 it was reorganized as the agronomy department of the University of Saratov, and in 1922, as the Saratov Agricultural Institute. The institute has (1975) departments of agronomy, plant protection, economics, and forestry. There is also a correspondence department, a department for advanced training, a preparatory division for certain categories of entering students, a graduate school, 27 subdepartments, four study and experimental farms, and a library with about 500,000 volumes.

In the 1974–75 academic year, the institute had 4,800 students and approximately 250 instructors, including ten professors and doctors of sciences and more than 100 docents and candidates of sciences. The institute is authorized to accept doctors’ and candidates’ dissertations. The periodical Trudy (Transactions) of the institute has been published since 1939. The Saratov Agricultural Institute trained 12,300 specialists between 1913 and 1974.