Ivan Vasilievich Savchenko

Background

Ivan Vasilievich Savchenko was born on October 8, 1942 in Kantemirovsky District, Voronezh oblast, Russian Federation.

Education

Ivan Vasilievich graduated from the Faculty of Biology and Soil of the Moscow State University (1967).

Career

Since 1967, Ivan Vasilievich was a graduate student, a junior research fellow, a senior research fellow, the head of the laboratory (1978-1997) of the V.R. Williams in Moscow. Since 1997, he was a head of the fodder production department, since 2001, he was a scientific secretary, since 2007 he is an academic secretary of the plant growing department of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

He is an author of over 150 works, including the book "Halophytes of Russia, their Environmental Assessment and Use" (Moscow, 2001; together with Z.Sh. Shamsutdinov and others).

Achievements

• Ivan Vasilievich is a specialist in the field of feed geobotany. Under the leadership and with the participation of Ivan Vasilievich Savchenko, modern effective methods for assessing the state of natural forage lands have been created to develop the scientific basis for a strategy for the rational use and monitoring of pastures and hayfields. He is a developer of a detailed classification of pastures and hayfields for all zones of the Russian Federation, methods of geobotanical surveys using remote materials, phytoindicational ecological scales for fodder plants of the tundra and forest zones of Siberia and the Far East, steppe, forest-steppe and mountain regions of Siberia according to moisture, rich salinity of the soil, pasture digression and mountain zonation.

Membership

• a corresponding member

  Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences , Russian Federation

  2007