Kazmin, Grigory Tikhonovich

Born November 29, 1916 in Orlovka. In 1937, he got a job without education at the Far Eastern Research Institute of Agriculture. In 1943, despite the formidable battles of the Second World War , he entered the I.V. Michurin Fruit and Vegetable Institute with the aim of further training, which he graduated in 1948 and a little later, in 1951, completed graduate school at this institute. After graduation, he returned to the Far Eastern Research Institute of Agriculture as a technician and researcher. In 1961 he was elected director of the institute and worked in this position until 1989. From 1987 to 1989, he held the position of Director General of NPO Amur. In 1990, in connection with the reorganization of the Far Eastern Research Institute of Agriculture, he was appointed honorary director and worked in this position until his death. He raised many students who, by now, have become famous biologists and work in Kamchatka, Sakhalin, Magadan, Ussuriysk, Blagoveshchensk and other regions of the Russian Federation .

He died on September 29, 2001 in Vostochny.

The main scientific works are devoted to selection, cultivation and agricultural technology of fruit plants and grapes in the Far East. The author of over 500 scientific works ^[1] , 50 books and brochures, 13 certificates of authorship for inventions.

• Bred more than 50 varieties of plums, cherries and apricots using the hybridization method, which were highly appreciated in production.
• He participated in the development of mechanized technologies for the cultivation of agricultural crops and agricultural systems in the Far East.

• 1972-92 - Academician of the Agricultural Academy .
• 1992-2001 - Academician of the RAAS .

• Kazmin G.T. Collective and personal garden in the Far East. - Khabarovsk: Book. ed., 1960 .-- 192 p.
• Kazmin G.T. Far Eastern plums: Selection, variety study, agricultural technology. - Khabarovsk, 1966. - 326 p., Ill.
• Kazmin G.T. Apricot in the Far East. - Khabarovsk: Book. ed., 1973. - 264 p.
• Kazmin G.T. Collective and personal garden in the Far East. Re-worker. and add. - 4th ed. - Khabarovsk: Book. ed., 1976. - 304 p.
• Kazmin G.T. Far Eastern Garden and Vegetable Garden. [Collective and personal garden in the Far East] / - 6th ed., Rev. and add. - Khabarovsk: Book. ed., 1987. - 320 p.
• Kazmin G.T., Marusich V.A. Far Eastern apricot. - Khabarovsk, 1989 .-- 160 p.
• Kazmin G. T. et al. The Far East Agricultural System (collective monograph). - Khabarovsk, 1968 .-- 528 s.
• Feed production in the Far East. Scientific ed. G. T. Kazmin. - Khabarovsk: Book. ed., 1975 .-- 288 p.

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1976)
• Order Badge of Honor .
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (1986)
• Gold medal named after I.V. Michurin (1966)
• Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1985)
• Gold Medal of VDNH and 7 more similar medals of VDNH .
• 8 other scientific medals.

• Biologists: Biographical reference. - Kiev .: Naukova Dumka , 1984. - 816 p.
• Amur Michurinets (About G. T. Kazmine) ./ Kalinin A. A. Continued Century: Our History in Biographies and Faces. Scientific ed. V.V. Bogatov. - Vladivostok: Dalnauka, 2016 .-- 460 p., Ill. (Science in Faces), pp. 317–325.
• Dumcheva N. A. Personality: History of the Khabarovsk Territory in persons. Ed. Abdrashitov A.M., scientific. consultant. Dubinina N.I., Merezhko A.G. - Khabarovsk: Kraev. printing house, 2018 .-- 664 p., ill. / Kazmin G.T., pp. 93-110.

• List of full members of the Supreme Agricultural Academy and the RAAS .

• Biographical information .
• Detailed biography on the site of the Encyclopedia, dictionaries, reference books .