Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Forest Management and Agroforest Amelioration

Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Forest Management and Agroforest Amelioration (Український науково-дослідний інститут лісового господарства та аґролісомеліорації ім. Ю. Висоцького; Ukrainskyi naukovo-doslidnyi instytut lisovoho hospodarstva ta agrolisomelioratsii im. Yu. Vysotskoho). A scientific research institute established in Kharkiv in 1929 under the People's Commissariat of Forest Management of Ukraine. It was merged with the Ukrainian Institute of Forest Management in 1951 and with the Forestry Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR in 1956. In 1980 the institute had 12 laboratories, 2 departments, and a Carpathian Mountains branch. It oversaw the work of four forestry stations, the Crimean Mountains Forestry Station, four agroforest amelioration stations, the Lower-Dnipro River Sand Forestation and Viticulture Research Station, the Desna River Soil Erosion Research Station, the Veseli Bokovenky Dendrological Selection Station, and the Danylivka Experimental Forest Farm. Its chief goals are to increase forest productivity and improve forest protection. The institute has a graduate program and publishes collections of scientific papers.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]