Background
KIRSANOV, Aleksandr was born on August 15, 1880 in Saratov Province.
Agrochemist pedologist and plant breeder
KIRSANOV, Aleksandr was born on August 15, 1880 in Saratov Province.
1908 graduate Berlin Agric Institute.
1909-1917 professor, Kamennyy Ostrov Agric Courses. 1918-1922 professor and dean Agronomical Faculty, Ivanovo-Voznesensk Polytech Institute.
1927-1931 professor, then rector, Leningrad Agric Institute. 1931-1941 head, Agrochemical Laboratory, Soil Institute, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Specialized in bog cultivation, fertilizers, plant growth factors and soil fertility.
Devised methods of determining how much phosphate and potassium fertilizer various soils require. Made long-term studies of the bogs of Belorussian. Company-founder Minsk Bog Research Station.
Religious faith contradicts people’s efforts to obtain the truth about nature and a human being.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.