Background
LUPINOVICH, Ivan was born in 1900.
LUPINOVICH, Ivan was born in 1900.
1919 graduated Teachers’ Seminary. 1925 graduated Belarusian Agriculture Institute.
1934-1947 head of a chair, Belarusian Agriculture Institute. Since 1947 V.-President, Belarusian Academy of Sciences. Chairman, Minsk Department, Society for the Dissemination of Political and Science Knowledge.
Deputy, Belarusian Supreme Soviet of 1955 and 1959 convocation. At Council of USSR Academy of Science, studied productive forces of USSR and headed combined expeditions to Southern Kirghizia and the AralCaspian area. Studied national hist, districts of Volga area, Urals, Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Daghestani Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, etc.
Organized major research on peat-bog soils in black-earth region of USSR. Supervises science work on plan for transforming Polesie Lowlands of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic into an area suitable for arable farming. Main works deal with improvement of soil fertility.