Agricultural education

The first secondary educational institution in Tyumen was founded on May 31 (June 12), 1877. The building was built according to the project of the capital architect E.S. Vorotilov. The construction was supervised by architect B. B. Zinke, and the work was financed by the merchant of the 1st guild, Tyumen mayor P.I. Podaruyev. The school was opened on September 15 (27), 1879.

Since August 1879, the post of director of the college was held by the scientist and researcher I. Ya. Slovtsov. His works have been awarded medals by the Stockholm Academy of Sciences and the Russian Geographical Society. He not only managed to attract knowledgeable teachers to teaching, but also fascinated them with the upcoming prospects in the teaching field. Graduates of St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Kharkov universities taught at the educational institution. From November 18 (30), 1879, in honor of Emperor Alexander II, the school became known as Alexandrovsky.

The educational institution was the second sixth-grade real school in Western Siberia with the main commercial department in grades 5−6, chemical technology and mechanical departments in the additional 7th grade. The school has changed many times, for example, in 1884, a weather station appeared at it, and in 1886, due to a lack of students, the commercial department was closed

Classes were held in more than 20 classrooms, specially equipped laboratories, drawing and gymnastics halls. Workshops operated at the school; the library worked. The course of study included the Law of God, Russian, German, French, trigonometry, physics, geography, history, drawing, law and others. The school was considered to be publicly accessible, since the cost of paid tuition was not high. Scholarships from Tyumen merchants were awarded to support students from the poorest families.

Famous people were trained at the Tyumen Alexandrovsky Real School: writer M. M. Prishvin, the first director of the Tyumen Regional Museum of Local Lore, artist P. A. Rossomakhin, Honored Pediatrician S. I. Karnatsevich, Soviet statesman and party leader L. B. Krasin, opera and chamber singer A.M. Labinsky, etc.

In 1906, I. Ya. Slovtsov resigned and left Tyumen. His place was taken by P. A. Ivachev.

In 1919, the school was closed, and in 1920, an Agricultural college was established on the basis of the former Alexandrovsky Real School.

Tobolsk Veterinary College was the successor to the veterinary and paramedic school, opened in 1878, the first agricultural educational institution in Western Siberia. In 1920, the Tobolsk Veterinary College was opened on the basis of the veterinary school, which in 1930 was located in the premises of the former Tobolsk Theological Seminary and the men’s Znamensky Monastery. On July 15, 1931, a native preparatory department was opened at the college and a reindeer breeding department was completed. In 1934, a zootechnical department was opened at the college. Since that time, it has been called the zootechnical and veterinary college with a 4-year training period.

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, teachers, students, graduates, including the director of the college M.A. Klimov, were called up for military service. Early graduation, conscription of young men into the army led to a sharp reduction in the contingent at the college. If in the 1940/41 academic year there were 17 groups with 427 students, then in the 1942/43 academic year there were only 6 groups with 111 students.

After the war, the college grew and developed, changed its appearance and became a modern school for training specialists for agriculture. In 1978, the college staff solemnly celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of its educational institution. Over the past hundred years, there have been 102 graduates of veterinary paramedics in the number of 2,270 people, 40 graduates of animal technicians (2,420 people), four graduates of veterinary technicians in the number of 145 people. For his great contribution to the training of personnel for agriculture and in connection with the 100th anniversary, the college was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor.

In 1990, the college was transformed into a state farm college, and in 1993 it acquired the status of an agricultural college of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.

The State Agrarian University of the Northern Trans-Urals traces its history back to September 15, 1879, when the grand opening of the real school took place in Tyumen (that year it became known as "Alexandrovsky"). The first director of the school was Ivan Yakovlevich Slovtsov, an outstanding Russian educator, researcher and traveler. Through the efforts of Slovtsov, a highly professional team of teachers was formed at the school. The level of education and prestige of the Tyumen Alexandrovsky Real School were so high that its best graduates had the opportunity to enter the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology without exams.

In 1920, under the leadership of Pavel Augustovich Martin, the Tyumen Agricultural College and the Ulyanovsk Experimental farm were organized on the basis of the school. By 1934, the college had three departments: grain, agricultural, and hydraulic engineering. There was a school of tractor mechanics, which trained 320 people. In 1926−1927, the legendary scout, Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov studied at the Tyumen Agricultural College. From July 19, 1941 to March 24, 1945, in the main building of the college (Republic Street, 7) under the supervision of Professor B.I. The body of V.I. Lenin was preserved by Zbarsky. In the late 1940s, the college had three departments: field management, mechanization and land management. In the first half of the 1950s, the college significantly updated the fleet of agricultural machines, students underwent industrial practice at the best machine and tractor stations (MTS), collective farms and state farms of the region.

Over the 39 years of its activity, the Tyumen Agricultural College has graduated 2,875 specialists. Among the graduates are Hero of Socialist Labor Vedeney Ivanovich Arkhipov, Major General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Igor Petrovich Marov, Knight of the Order of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor and the Order of the Badge of Honor Vladimir Yakovlevich Nizovskikh, knight of the Order of the Patriotic War I degree, Order of Glory III degree, two orders of the Badge of Honor, Order of the October Revolution Vasily Fedorovich Knysh.

In 1959, the Tyumen Agricultural Institute was opened on the basis of the Tyumen Agricultural College. Its first director was Vasily Petrovich Vysotsky. The new institute began work as part of the zootechnical and agronomic faculties and four departments: physics and mathematics, anatomy and physiology of farm animals, botany and general chemistry. On January 1, 1959, 556 full-time students studied at the college. Ten years later, the institute had 5 faculties and 25 departments.

On October 4, 2012, the Tyumen State Agricultural Academy changed its status. The institution was named the State Agrarian University of the Northern Urals. The University includes Agrotechnological, Mechanical and Technological Institutes, Institute of Economics and Finance, Institute of Biotechnology and Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Distance Education. Currently, Tyumen State University of the Northern Urals is one of the leading agricultural universities in the country.

In 1935, a reindeer breeding college was established in Salekhard, on the basis of the department of the Tobolsk Veterinary College. Since that time, the college has been training specialists in the specialty "Animal science". The first graduation of 13 reindeer herders took place in 1937. In 1944, the importance of the Salekhard Technical School increased significantly, it was reorganized into a zootechnical and veterinary college of republican subordination. In 1944, the department of Veterinary Medicine was opened, the first issue of veterinary surgeons was only 8 people.

In 1987, the department of "Hunting Studies" and the correspondence zootechnical department were opened, and in 1993 two new departments were opened at the college — "Jurisprudence" and "Accounting and Auditing".

In 1998, a branch of the Tyumen Agricultural Academy was opened on the basis of the college. By Decree of the head of the administration of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug No. 214 dated June 29, 1994, the college was renamed the federal state educational institution of secondary vocational education "Salekhard Veterinary College", and by order of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation No. 575 dated June 04, 2001, the institution was renamed the federal state educational institution of secondary vocational education "Salekhard Veterinary College".

In 2003, another renaming followed and now this educational institution is called the Yamal Polar Agroeconomical College.