Barak, Petr Fedorovich

Born in 1858. At the end of the course at St. Petersburg University B. in 1884 he took part in the expedition VV. Dokuchaev Soil Research Nizhny Novgorod province, where the proportion of B. study fell Semenovski County. Report this amounted XI t. Materials on the evaluation of land Nizhny Novgorod Province ". In addition, B. published a study: "On the absorption capacity of soils of Nizhny Novgorod". In 1886 he organized an agricultural experimental station in the Orel province, in the village Bogoduhov. Reports on the work, . made on the station, . published in "Proceedings of the Imperial Free Economic Society" and separately ( "Experience the study of natural science foundations of field crops in the forest-steppe region of European Russia", . 1898, . Master's thesis),
. In 1889, took the chair of agronomy at the University of Novorossiysk. Since 1893 participated in a special expedition, equipped forest department, under the guidance. Dokuchaev, for testing and integration of various methods and techniques of forestry and water management in the steppes of Russia, which was charged with B. organization of agricultural experimental work. This organization is described in two articles: "The project of agricultural experiments in the areas of special mission" and "Detailed project organization experimental fields in the areas of the expedition" ( "Proceedings of the special mission"). In 1894 B. appointed to the neo-Alexandrian Institute in the department of general agriculture. B. Other Works: "The course of general agriculture", "Development of agricultural experimental work with us" ( "Notes of the neo-Alexandrian institution", . for 1908), "The main objectives of our agricultural experimental stations" ( "Proceedings of the Imperial Free Economic Society", . 1910); "Walls of the table on agriculture", . Series I: "The soil and its treatment"; "The current situation of the question of the fertility of the soil" ( "Notes of the neo-Alexandrian institution", . for 1905); "lysimeters and their role in studying the properties of the soil, . conditional on its productivity "(" Soil ", . 1908), "Contents of carbon dioxide in the soils at different periods of plant growth" ( "Journal of Experimental Agronomy,, . 1910) and others.,