The gardening Golgotha of professor Volodymyr Symyrenko (to the 130th anniversary of his birth and the centenary of the foundation of the Mliiv Research station of pomology)

Abstract

The article focuses on the life path, scientific, scientific-organizational and public activities of the outstanding scientist-pomologist Professor Volodymyr Levkovych Symyrenko, as well as some moments in the history of the Mliiv Research station of pomology, which he founded. The struggle of V. Symyrenko with representatives of "Michurin biology", who tried to destroy the achievements of Ukrainian scientists in the field of horticulture, liquidate the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Fruit and Berry Farming in Kyiv, created on the basis of the Mliiv Research station of pomology, and transfer the institute to Kozlov (now the city of Michurinsk, RF). ). The Soviet authorities, starting from 1933, arrested V. Symyrenko three times for so-called "anti-Soviet activities". By the resolution of the prosecutor of the NKVD of the USSR of September 2, 1938, Volodymyr Symyrenko was sentenced to death by shooting. The sentence was carried out on the night of September 17-18, 1938. The scientist was then only 47 years old. He was buried in an unmarked mass grave in the Solyanka tract near Kursk.