Mucha, Vladimir Dmitrievich

After graduating with honors from the Kharkov Agricultural Institute. V.V. Dokuchaev in 1958, for about two years he worked on an expedition to examine the soils of Ukraine as a soil technician, soil engineer, and the head of the soil party.

In 1960, he began his teaching career in alma mater at the department of soil science. Candidate of agricultural sciences since 1966 (thesis on the topic “The influence of gypsum on the effectiveness of the sowing of defecate and some mineral fertilizers on powerful black soil”).

For several years he worked as a teacher in African Guinea-Bissau . From 1966 to 1970 - Head of the Department of Soil Science and Agrochemistry at the Agronomy Faculty of the Polytechnic Institute in Conakry , gave lectures on soil science with the basics of geology in French .

After returning to his homeland until 1982 he worked as an assistant professor, then as a professor in the department of soil science at the Kharkov Agricultural Institute.

In 1979 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "General patterns and zonal features of soil changes of the main genetic types under the influence of crops."

In 1982-1988, he was the head of the Department of Agriculture and Soil Science at the Poltava Agricultural Institute (now the Poltava State Agrarian Academy ).

From 1988 to 2005 - Rector of the Kursk State Agricultural Academy (GSHA). For the first time in the history of the Kursk Agricultural Institute, he was elected collective rector of the competition on an alternative basis. Under the leadership of V. D. Mukha, the Kursk Agricultural Institute was qualitatively updated: a modern material and technical base was created. New specialties, councils for the defense of doctoral and master's theses were opened, a printing house and a publishing house, a sanatorium for students were organized, a residential building and a hostel for graduate students and young specialists were built.

Since 2006, Professor V. D. Mukha headed the department of soil science, agrochemistry and environmental economics of the Kursk State Agricultural Academy.

One of the organizers of the Kursk Institute of Natural Sciences and Humanities (later - the Kursk Institute of Management, Economics and Business, a private educational institution of higher education).

A major scientist in the field of soil science, agroecology and agrochemistry. V. D. Mucha established the general laws and zonal features of the modern (natural-anthropogenic) evolution of soils; gave a qualitatively new genetic classification of mangrove soils; introduced new scientific concepts “agropedocenosis” and “biopedocenosis”; developed methods and techniques to improve the ecological condition and increase soil fertility ; proposed a methodology for determining stable indicators that reflect the intensity and orientation of soil processes; substantiated the need for a transition to a landscape-ecological system of agriculture, etc.

Published over 250 scientific papers, textbooks and teaching aids, among them monographs:

• “Soil fertility and sustainability of agriculture” (M., 1995),
• “Natural-anthropogenic evolution of soils” (M., 2004);
• textbooks "Programming the yields of major crops" (Kiev, 1988),
• "Agrology" (M., 1994),
• "Agriculture" (Wiley, 2001)
• “Soil Science” (2003).

He received 2 diplomas for scientific discoveries and 14 patents for inventions, created a scientific school, prepared 25 candidates and 8 doctors of sciences.

Poet poet. He appeared in print under the pseudonym V. Chemalsky (“The Flame of the Earth Candle”, 2003). In 1999 he became a member of the Union of Writers of Russia.

• To the 65th anniversary of the Kursk State Agricultural Academy
• Vladimir Dmitrievich Fly