Background
Boris Apollonovich Shumakov was born on September 25, 1889 in Lgov, Kursk, Russian Federation.
Boris Apollonovich Shumakov was born on September 25, 1889 in Lgov, Kursk, Russian Federation.
Boris Apollonovich graduated from the Don Polytechnic Institute (now Platov South-Russian State Polytechnic University) (1914).
Boris Apollonovich worked as the head of the primary Tinguta agricultural school of the Tinguta experimental land reclamation site of the Astrakhan province (1913-1914). He was a participant of the 1st World War (1914-1917).
Since 1917, was a specialist in land reclamation of the Ministry of Agriculture, was an engineer of the hydraulic engineering department of land improvements (1918), head of the 3rd Volga prospecting party (1918-1920), head of the experimental irrigation station (1919-1922) of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the RSFSR in the city of Valuyki.
Boris Apollonovich was a professor of the Don Institute of Agricultural Reclamation (1921-1932); at the same time director of the North Caucasus Experimental Reclamation Station (1924-1931). Deputy Director of the Southern Research Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Land Reclamation (1934-1937, 1944-1967), professor, head of department (1934-1975) Novocherkassk Engineering and Land Reclamation Institute.