For foreign citizens of the Preparatory department a scientific and educational excursion was conducted at the faculties of Plant protection, Agrochemistry and Soil science.
The Dean of the Faculty, Associate Professor Ivan Lebedovsky and his Deputy for educational work Mikhail Osipov showed them the faculty material base, training laboratories and lecture halls. Professors of Phytopathology, Entomology and Plant protection departments Emilia Pikushova and Viktor Sokirko, Associate Professor Larissa Shadrina told foreigners about plant's phyto-examination, its methods and agro-industrial complex importance not only in our country but in the whole world.
They visited the Department of Organic and physicolloid chemistry, where Associate Professor Irina Dmitrievna and Senior Lecturer Natalia Makarova demonstrated to the future students a visual qualitative reaction for protein detection.
The excursion ended with a story in English. A Post-graduate student Irina Matveeva told them about her successful plant protector career.