Altai State University of Agriculture

The Altai State Agricultural University (ASAU) is one of the oldest universities of the Altai Region. The University was founded in 1943 on the basis of the Pushkinskiy Agricultural Institute which was evacuated to the Altai Region from Leningrad.

The mission of the Altai State Agricultural University consists in quality education, re-education and improvement of professional skills of qualified specialists of agricultural industry. The mission also includes the generation of up-to-date scientific knowledge based on the integration of agricultural science and agricultural education, the interchange of progressive experience and advanced practical implementation of the research results to ensure the formation of innovative and competitive agricultural industry and sustainable social and economic development of the Siberian Federal District as a strategically important region for Russian food security.

• Soil evaluation, forecasting soil fertility and rational use of land resources; soil thermal physics and soil thermal improvement; anthropogenic effect on soil thermal-physic state.
• The development of effective technologies of soil fertility improvement and the techniques of efficient application chemicals in agriculture and animal production.
• Highly efficient development and use of reclaimed lands and water resources.
• Highly efficient, adapted to the market and local conditions systemic agriculture and energy-saving crop cultivation technologies, biologization of agriculture and tillage minimization.
• Adaptive potential of spring cereal crops and forage crops on zonal and saline soils.
• Optimization of operational parameters and regimes of tillage implements, and the improvement of their design.
• Mechanic-technological substantiation, creation and implementation of technological processes and machines of vibration-shock impact for processing industry. Improvement and efficient introduction of advanced agricultural equipment and technologies.
• Morphologic and physiologic mechanism of animal adaptation to external environmental factors.
• The improvement of farm animal nutrition and husbandry technologies. Ecologically safe animal production.
• The improvement and development of efficient animal production technologies. The improvement of animal management and reproduction systems.