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Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was a writer, journalist, human rights activist and humanitarian of a Ukrainian origin in the Russian Empire. His best-known work includes the short novel The Blind Musician (1886), as well as numerous short stories based upon his experience of exile in Siberia. Korolenko was a strong critic of the Tsarist regime and in his final years of the Bolsheviks.

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Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary. He served as head of state of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and later of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946. From 1926, he was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov was a Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist and geneticist who identified the centers of origin of cultivated plants. He devoted his life to the study and improvement of wheat, maize and other cereal crops that sustain the global population.

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Yelliy Anatolyevich Bogdanov was a Russian and Soviet zoologist, one of the founders of animal science in Russia and the USSR. Researcher of feeding and breeding of farm animals. Professor of the Moscow Agricultural Institute.

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Kliment Arkadievich Timiryazev, sometimes Timiriazev was a Russian Imperial botanist and physiologist and a major proponent of the Evolution Theory of Charles Darwin in Russia. He founded a faculty of vegetable physiology and a laboratory at the Petrovskoye Academy.

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Vasily Semyonovich Shipilov (07.08.1924-13.10.1991) was a Soviet scientist in the field of veterinary obstetrics and veterinary gynecology, academician of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1982).

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The Liskun Museum of Animal Husbandry is a museum dedicated to the development of animal husbandry in Russia.

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Pyotr Nikolayevich Listov was a Soviet scientist in the field of agricultural electrification. Academician of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1966).

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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Tikhonov was a Soviet and Russian economist, public and political figure. Academician of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

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Alexander Aleksandrovich Nikonov was a Soviet and Russian economist, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Academician of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences, President of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (1984-1992).

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