POSVIR - polar Experimental Station of All-Union Institute of Crop

 agriculture, scientific research institute / centre, plant nursery

POSVIR - polar Experimental Station of All-Union Institute of Crop.

The booming construction industry in Hibiny required urgently address the problem of creating their own food base.
In this regard, in October 1930, was founded the 1 st on the Kola Peninsula and the northernmost in the state farm "industry" (director N. Gladyshev). Uspekhi sovkhoz were prepared before the work was created in October 1922, Khibiny skilled agricultural item. Its organizers were the pioneers of development Murman - GM KREPS (organizer Lapland Reserve) and who founded the northern farming, later academician, - IG Eyhfeld.
Skilled agricultural item was 1-m research institution in the Far North, committed to solving the problem Melioration northern polar lands and the development of agriculture.

In 1931 the agricultural Khibiny item was reorganized into the Polar Experimental Station of All-Union Institute of Crop (POSVIR). Based on recommendations POSVIRa to grow vegetables, local food supply, the state farm "Industry" quickly rose to their feet. Already April 15, 1932 in Hibinogorsk of farm raised polar Harvest - 1200 bunches of green onions, and in July 1934 in sovkhoz "Industry" has been received on the Kola peninsula, the first crop of strawberries.

Currently, the collection, preservation of the living form, exploring the world's plant genetic resources for their effective use.
The first work on greening the cities of Murmansk region.
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