The history of Vyatka agroengineering science (to the 130th anniversary of the Federal Agricultural Research Center of the North-East named N. V. Rudnitsky)

The article provides a brief overview of the 70-year development of agroengineering science at the Federal Agricultural Research Center of the North-East named N. V. Rudnitsky, a scientific institution with a 130-year history. The stages of formation are described – from the Department of Mechanization (1955-1995) to the scientific and engineering center (from 1995 to present ), which initially included laboratories for field husbandry mechanization, grain and seed cleaning machines, livestock mechanization, agricultural engineering and technical development, and a design bureau with over 80 engineering and technical staff members, including 8 doctors, 15 candidates of technical science, and 14 graduate students in mechanics. Over the past 29 years, agricultural engineers have developed over 40 names of new energy-saving technologies and machines for the mechanization of crop and livestock production, the design of which is protected by more than 150 copyright certificates and patents of the Russian Federation for inventions. Mass production of more than 60 designs of new machines and equipment has been mastered. Sixty-eight people have completed postgraduate studies in technical specialties, 47 of them have defended their dissertations. Dissertation councils have been successfully functioning since 1996, in which 108 dissertations have been defended, 17 of them doctoral ones.