Duka Stepan Kharitonovich (April 10, 1907, Yellow - June 23, 1960) - Soviet breeder, winner of the 1952 Stalin Prize, holder of two orders of the Red Banner of Labor.
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Biography
He graduated from the Agricultural College, in 1929 - the Uman Agricultural Institute , remained to work at the Department of Genetics and Breeding - assistant professor. M. Gruner. At the Kharkov Institute of Applied Botany, he defended the work on the removal of perennial rye , as M. I. Vavilov approvingly responded. He worked at the Uman Agricultural Institute as an assistant professor and the head of the department of genetics and selection - 1934-1937, according to him - associate professor P. L. Ivanchenko.
For research on the selection of apple, cherry and strawberry he was awarded the title of candidate of agricultural sciences. Subsequently, he worked in Kiev at the Ukrainian Institute of Horticulture.
During World War II, he participated in battles in the Arctic , liberated the Pushkin Mountains, and was awarded military orders and medals. [one]
After the war he defended his doctoral dissertation, in 1949-1960 - Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute of Gardening.
He is the author of more than 70 scientific papers on genetics, selection and gardening, has written a monograph on the biology and selection of large-fruited strawberry garden.
Co-author in the withdrawal of several varieties of strawberries - Kievskaya early 2, Yubileynaya, Ukrainka, cherries - Beloved Duki, Beauty of Kiev, Kitaevskaya black, cherries - Umansky early ripening. His apple variety Ruby Duka is used (together with L. S. Reznichenko) to this day.
One of the streets of Kiev was named after him in 1961.
He was buried at the Bike cemetery .
His daughter, Reznichenko Lyudmila Stepanovna - a breeder, with a team of authors brought cherries varieties "Lyudmila Duka", "Beauty of Kiev", "Black Kitaevskaya", others, apricot. The second daughter - Svetlana Stepanovna Duka, worked all her life on breeding flower crops, bred several varieties of asters.
Among the published works: "The seven-year gardening - for 5 years", State Agricultural Publishing House of the USSR, 1959.