Podoba, Ivan Grigorievich

After graduating from the Chisinau gymnasium, he entered the Richelieu Lyceum and since 1865 studied at the Natural Sciences Department of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of the newly opened Imperial Novorossiysk University ^[1] , which he graduated with a Ph.D. in natural sciences in 1870. Then, until 1872, he studied agricultural sciences, and especially sheep breeding and wool studies, at the Prussian Agricultural Academy of Proskau ( Silesia ). After returning to Russia since 1873, he was the head of the farms of sheep farmers-landowners Falz-Feynov. In 1876, he temporarily served as director of the Zemstvo Agricultural School in Kherson . In Odessa, he gave public lectures on wool research. He was a member of the Society of Naturalists at the Novorossiysk University

I. G. Podoba is considered one of the first who began to breed in Russia a very useful oilseed plant, Lallemantia (Lallemantia ibirica), and from legumes - soy (Soya hispida), Dzhugaru , etc. On behalf of the Imperial Free Economic Society, he performed a microscopic study of fineness merino wool, tested the size of the twists of merino wool, strength and its degree of elongation. In 1881, the results of his research “Tonina of Merino Wool. Microscopic examination of I. G. Podoba. ”(Kherson: Free Economic Society, 1881) was published in Russian and German and the author was awarded a large gold medal of the Free Economic Society.

He was the director of the seven-class commercial school in Mogilev-Podolsky , as well as the director and teacher of law at the commercial school.

In 1885, Podoba, as a member of the commission for studying the causes of stagnation in the grain trade, presented a report entitled “Our Position in the International Market for the Sale of Wool, Bread and Livestock” (St. Petersburg: type “Society. Benefits”, 1885).

Other his works:

• A practical guide to the study of Russian grammar, or a tutorial of Russian spelling / Comp. and ed. I.G. Similar. - Odessa, 1871. - XII, 72 p.
• Something about parasites and whirling in sheep indicating safety measures. - Kherson, 1871 .-- 63 p. - (Popular reading)
• A brief overview of the most important qualities of wool (from public lectures, read in Odessa in September 1875 by I.G. Podoboy). - Kherson: type. BUT. Vashchenko, 1877 .-- 17 p.
• Pocket Guide to Determining the Qualities and Age of Pets in 228 Lithographed Images with Special Text / Comp. and ed. Cand. natures Sciences Yves. Gr. Similar. Part 1-2. - Odessa, 1884.
• Sheep breeding. The current state of sheep husbandry in southern Russia and the needs of our sheep husbandry / Comp. Similar. Exhibition in Odessa 1884. - Odessa: Slavs. typ., 1884. - 18 p.
• What are the properties of noble wool (Adel der Wolle) based on, what are its advantages and how to find out? (Odessa: type. P. Frantsova, 1874) (Kherson: type. N.O. Vashchenko, 1875)
• A brief overview of wool science and the terminology of all qualities of merino wool
• To the culture of Lallemanthus (Lallemantia iberica, Fich. Et Mayer). - SPb .: type. t-va "Soc. benefit ”, [1881]. - 6 p.
• Oil peas or soy (Soja hispida): Properties, culture and method of use. - Odessa: type. L. Nitche, 1881 .-- 14 p.
• Soy and Lallemanthus. New very useful plants, their properties and culture / Comp. Cand. natures Sciences Yves. Gr. Similar. - 2nd ed., Ext. - SPb .: type. I.P. Voshchinsky, 1884 .-- 24 p.
• The main properties of organisms producing infectious diseases. - Odessa: type. L. Nitche, 1889. - 18 p., 2 p. ill., tab.
• Preliminary information on natural sciences and geography. - Mogilev-Podolsky: type. Sh. S. Katz, 1906. - [2], II, 92 p.
• New local court (by law June 15, 1912) - Odessa: type. Acc. South Russian islands of pech. affairs, 1914.

• Podoba, Ivan Grigorievich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.