LEVYTSKY BORIS HRYGOROVICH

(11.05.1890-02.05.1953) 

Born on May 11, 1890 in the city of Uman, Kyiv province (now Cherkasy region) in the family of a church minister.

He received his secondary education at the Uman Theological College, then at the Kyiv Theological Seminary, and higher education at the Kharkiv Veterinary Institute, which he graduated in 1914. After studying at the institute, he worked as an assistant at a bacteriological station until 1919. During the same period, he lectured on microbiology at the State Agricultural College (now the Kharkiv Zoo-Veterinary Institute). From 1919 to 1921, at the invitation of the Katerynoslavsky gubernia department, he worked as the head of the department of the Veterinary Institute.

In 1922, he was sent to the village of Gozhuli, Poltava district, to organize an anti-plague station for pigs, and then in 1923 he moved to the zootechnical department of the Poltava experimental agricultural station as the head of the zootechnical analysis laboratories. During his work, he organized a breeding farm for large white pigs in the village of Yakivtsi, Poltava district, which he headed for 5 years. After the reorganization of the zootechnical department into an independent zootechnical station, he worked as the head. During this period, he organized a microbiological laboratory and a poultry farming department.

In 1927, B. G. Levitsky began teaching as a microbiology teacher at the Poltava Agricultural Cooperative Technical School, and in 1930, after its reorganization into the Poltava Agricultural Institute, he became the head of the microbiology department.

When the zootechnical station was reorganized into the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Pig Breeding in 1930, he worked as the deputy director for scientific work, created the animal hygiene department and headed the microbiology laboratory (later transformed into the feed technology laboratory).

In 1936, by the decision of the qualification committee of the VASGNIL, B. G. Levitsky was awarded the academic degree of Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, and in 1937, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences and the title of full member of the scientific research institute. institutions.

In 1941, in Stavropol, he headed the Department of Microbiology at the Animal Veterinary Institute, and at the end of 1941, he moved to Ashgabat. He worked as a consultant to the zootechnical station of the Turkmen branch of the Academy of Sciences, headed the Department of Feeding at the Agricultural Institute, and lectured on microbiology at the Military Medical School. In 1942, B. G. Levitsky was the head of the pig breeding department at the Kyrgyz Research Institute of Animal Husbandry. In 1944, he was recalled by the People's Commissar of State Farms of the USSR to Poltava and began the reconstruction of the Poltava Agricultural Institute and the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Pig Breeding.

Professor B. G. Levitsky developed theoretical and practical basic provisions of feed fermentation, which were included in manuals on feeding farm animals, on issues of zoohygiene in pig breeding, as well as in encyclopedic dictionaries and reference books of the livestock industry.

The merits of B. G. Levitsky were highly appreciated: in 1936 he was awarded the Order of Lenin, in 1939 and 1940 - the Small and Large Silver Medals of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, in 1946 - the Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945." By the decree of the President of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR of April 6, 1946, he was awarded the title of Honored Scientist of the Ukrainian SSR.

B. G. Levitsky is the author of 155 scientific works.

He died on May 2, 1953. He was buried at the Monastyrsky cemetery in Poltava.

LITERATURE ABOUT THE LIFE AND ACTIVITIES OF THE SCIENTIST

1. Peretyatko L. G. Levitsky Borys Grigorovich. Scientists in the field of animal husbandry / UAAN. Kyiv: Agrarian Science, 1999. Book 2. P. 209–210. (Series "Ukrainian Scientists-Agrarians of the 20th Century")
2. Peretyatko L. G., Tarasyuk N. M. Levitsky Borys Grigorovich. Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine [Electronic resource] / ed.: I. M. Dzyuba, A. I. Zhukovsky, M. G. Zheleznyak [et al.]; NAS of Ukraine, NTSh. Kyiv: Institute of Encyclopedic Research of NAS of Ukraine, 2016. URL: https://esu.com.ua/pdf/file/53704.pdf
3. 135 years since the birth of Levitsky Borys Grigorovich. Calendar of significant and memorable dates in the history of agricultural research in Ukraine for 2025 / NAAS, NNSGB; comp.: V. A. Vergunov, S. V. Nyzhnyk, O. V. Korzun, D. Yu. Korzun; scientific editor V. A. Vergunova. Vinnytsia: LLC "CREATE", 2024. pp. 87–88. URL: https://dnsgb.com.ua/assets/files/2024/11/kalendar_web.pdf
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5. Poltava electoral district. Members of the District Election Commission. Levitskyi Oris Grigorovich. Page:Vedomosti Verkhovna Rada 1947.djvu/86.

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