Vasily Moroz: biography of a famous livestock specialist

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:47

On January 10, 2019, an outstanding scientist, Academician Vasily Andreevich Moroz, passed away. He was a famous Soviet and Russian livestock specialist, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, a talented high-level specialist in the field of goat and sheep breeding. We will tell about the life and scientific activities of a respected citizen of our country and a beloved teacher in the article.

Biography

Vasily Andreevich Moroz was born in Kizlyar, Dagestan, on October 12, 1937. The childhood of the future scientist fell on the tragic war and difficult post-war years, due to which such qualities as responsibility, amazing stamina and love of life were formed in him.

Father Vasily Andreyevich did not remember - he died at the front at the very beginning of the war. A sister and a brother also died of starvation. In June 1943, the boy and his mother went on foot from Kizlyar to the village of Kievka in the Stavropol Territory, where his dispossessed grandparents lived.

In Kievka, Vasily finished seven grades of elementary school, and then went to the city of Prokhladny to study at the Terek Agricultural College.

Moving to Stavropol

After graduating from college with honors, the young man decided to go to Stavropol to enter the institute. There was no money for a ticket, and he was forced to get to the city in a wagon with coal. Once at the Stavropol railway station, he fell asleep right on the bench, next to the tramps.

In the morning, a policeman woke up a Red Diploma graduate and wanted to take him to the police station. Vasily told him his story, after which the law enforcement officer relented and even bought the guy a bus ticket to the agricultural institute. The rector, who saw the future student, was also skeptical at first, but thanks to the intervention of the secretary of the party committee, Moroz, they nevertheless took him to the university.

Vasily also graduated from the Institute with honors. During my studies, I went to summer practice several times in my native Kievka. There he was going to work by distribution, but received an offer from the chairman of the collective farm. Lenin Viktor Chesnyak to take the post of chief livestock specialist. This somewhat puzzled Moroz, he asked to be given a more modest position, but Chesnyak insisted on his own.

Work on the collective farm

As the chief livestock specialist of the Stavropol collective farm. Lenin Vasily Andreevich worked for twenty-six years: from 1961 to 1987. And these were perhaps the most fruitful years of his life. The collective farm received the status of a breeding plant of all-Union significance and became one of the best farms in the Stavropol Territory. The number of sheep reached seventy thousand, in addition, Frost bred birds, pigs, cows, horses and even camels. With the participation and under the guidance of a livestock specialist, an outstanding productivity andselection significance of a herd of sheep of the Stavropol breed.

During his work on the collective farm, Vasily Moroz managed to complete postgraduate studies in absentia and defend his PhD thesis. In June 1983, for achievements in raising breeding animals and developing sheep breeding, as well as for fulfilling plans for the production of wool, the livestock specialist was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the Hammer and Sickle medal and the Order of Lenin.

Further activities

In 1987, Vasily Andreevich Moroz became the first doctor of agricultural sciences in the Soviet Union who defended his dissertation specifically on the topic of sheep breeding. In the same year, he left the collective farm and took the post of head of the All-Union Research Institute of Sheep and Goat Breeding in Stavropol. He headed the Institute for seventeen years, until 2004

Despite the new position, the livestock specialist did not lose touch with his family. In 1993, under his leadership, on the collective farm. Lenin, the Manych merino was bred - a new breed of fine-fleeced sheep.

In 2004, Vasily Moroz moved to work at the Stavropol Agrarian University as a professor at the Department of Sheep Breeding. In this position, he trained over five hundred highly qualified specialists for the agricultural sector of the economy. Now his students are successfully working not only in the Stavropol Territory, but also in Altai, Kalmykia, Buryatia, Saratov Region, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Ukraine.

Achievements

With the direct participation of Vasily Moroz, five newbreeds of sheep in the Altai and Stavropol and Altai Territories. He is the author of more than four hundred scientific papers, including two university textbooks. About forty dissertations were defended under the guidance of the scientist, nine of them are doctoral.

Vasily Andreevich traveled over thirty countries and became one of the best breeders in Uruguay, Australia and Argentina. Over the years, he has shown and proved that domestic sheep breeding can be better than in the world centers of this industry.

During his life, the academician was awarded many high awards. He was awarded four orders, twenty-two medals and sixteen insignia.

Recent years

In 2017, Vasily Moroz celebrated his 80th birthday. Despite his venerable age, he continued to work at the Stavropol Agrarian University at the Department of Private Animal Science and, as before, was engaged in scientific activities.

11.01.2019 sad news came - Vasily Moroz died in Stavropol at the age of 81. The organization of his funeral was undertaken by the government of the Stavropol Territory. The farewell ceremony with the famous livestock specialist was attended not only by specialists and heads of the leading farms of the Stavropol Territory, but also by colleagues from Dagestan, Kalmykia, Krasnodar and Altai Territories. On January 13, Vasily Andreevich was buried.