History of the center

The first scientific institution in animal husbandry in Belarus can be considered the Department of Animal Husbandry and Applied Zoology within the V.I. Lenin Belarusian Research Institute of Agriculture and Forestry at the Council of People's Commissars of the BSSR, opened in 1927.

The first director of the V.I. Lenin Belarusian Research Institute of Agriculture and Forestry was Gavrila Ivanovich Goretsky.

In 1940, a draft resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the BSSR "On the Network of Scientific Research Agricultural Institutions of the BSSR" was prepared, which provided for the organization of the Institute of Animal Husbandry on the basis of the Livestock Experimental Station in Slepianka to expand scientific research in animal husbandry in Belarus.

In March 1941, Vasily Ivanovich Patrushev, a Soviet physiologist, a pupil of Academician N.I. Vavilov, was sent to the Agricultural Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Belarusian SSR, where he headed the Department of Animal Husbandry of the Institute of Socialist Agriculture of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR.

At the meeting of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR on April 7-8, 1941, the report of the head of the animal husbandry group of the Institute of Socialist Agriculture V.I. Patrushev was also heard and the resolution "On the expediency of establishing the Institute of Animal Husbandry within the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR" was passed.

The issue of establishing the Institute of Animal Husbandry was discussed in 1946 and 1947.

The final decision was made only on December 20, 1949, when at the meeting of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR it was decided "To consider the newly organized Institute of Animal Husbandry to be a part of the existing institutions of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR...".

In March 1956, the Institute of Animal Husbandry of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR was renamed as the Belarusian Research Institute of Animal Husbandry and placed under the authority of the Ministry of Agriculture of the BSSR.

The Institute additionally created the Department of Pig Breeding. The state farm "Zarechye" of Smolevichi district was transferred to the Institute as an experimental base.

Over the years, the Belarusian Research Institute of Animal Husbandry was headed by well-known scientists who determined the directions and tasks of scientific support for animal husbandry: Khariton Stepanovich Goreglyad, Mikhail Fedorovich Gabyshev, Ulyan Andreevich Barkovsky, Petr Ivanovich Shumsky, Vyacheslav Timofeevich Gorin, Vitaly Stepanovich Antonyuk, Vladimir Iosifovich Shlyakhtunov, Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Gorin, Ivan Pavlovich Sheiko, Nikolai Andreevich Popkov, Dmitry Mikhailovich Bogdanovich. In 2024, Alexander Ivanovich Portnoy was appointed director.

In 2006, according to the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus No. 242 dated April 18, 2006, on the basis of the Republican Unitary Enterprise "Institute of Animal Husbandry of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus", the Republican Unitary Enterprise "Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Animal Breeding" was established.

The Republican Unitary Enterprise “Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Animal Breeding" has the following subsidiaries: Institute of Experimental Veterinary Medicine, Experimental Poultry Research Station, Institute of Fisheries, State Enterprise "ZhodinoAgroPlemElita".