Faculty of Technology and Bioresources

Faculty of Technology and Bioresources

The Zootechnical Faculty was organized in 1933 on the 1st of January, according to the order of the Commissariat of People's Education of the Kyrgyz ASSR, as part of the Kyrgyz Zooveterinary Institute and was at the origin of the Kyrgyz Agricultural Institute. The Faculty is the main educational and methodological, research, educational institution for training and retraining of qualified specialists in relevant areas such as biotechnology, processing of agricultural products, standardization, metrology, zootechnics and aquaculture. In 1974, the Faculty of Zootechnics was changed to the Faculty of Zooengineering, and since 2005 it has been transformed into the Faculty of "Technologies of production and processing of agricultural products". In 2022 the faculty was transferred the departments of "Btotechnology and Chemistry" and its name was renamed into the faculty of "Tenology and Bioresources". The faculty for its glorious 90-year history has trained more than seven thousand highly qualified specialists in the field of animal husbandry, technology of processing and commodity management of agricultural products and fish farming. The main mass of graduates conscientiously worked and are working not only in various branches of agro-industrial complex of the country, but also in other branches of the national economy of the Kyrgyz Republic. The faculty is characterized by a rich history and is especially proud of its famous graduates. Among them, such graduates as People's Writer of Kyrgyzstan, Laureate of Lenin and State Prizes of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, Commander of the Order of "Manas" of the Kyrgyz Republic, Academician Aitmatov Ch.T., Ex-President of the Kyrgyz Republic Zheenbekov S.Sh., twice Hero of Socialist Labor, Hero of Kyrgyzstan, former Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kyrgyz Republic Akmatov T.A., First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Kyrgyz SSR Amanbaev J.B., Khudaibergenov J. (from 1951 to 1962 headed the Kyrgyz Agricultural Institute), Professor Alagushev K.A. (from 1991 to 1996 worked as Rector of the K.I. Skryabin Agricultural Institute). A number of graduates of the faculty made a significant contribution to the development of agricultural science of the country and became academicians, corresponding members of the Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic and Russia: R.Z.Sadykov, I.M.Botbaev, A.O.Orozbayev, J.J.Lailiev. The doctors of sciences, professors became Abdykerimov A.A., Abdrasulov R.A., Abdymalikov K.A., Alagushev K.A., Almeyev I.A., Bykovcheno Yu, Kasymbekov R.K., Lee V.V., Mezentsev E.G., Nazarkulov A.N., Razzakov I.R., Azhibekov A.S., Rakhmatov A.R., Sarbagishev B.S., Samykbaev A.K., Chertkov V.A., Chortonbaev T.J., Chertkiev Sh.Ch., Shergaziev U.A. A great contribution to the development of the Kyrgyz Republic was made by a pleiad of statesmen, organizers of production: M.U. Umuraliev, S.T. Tursunov, A.S. Savitakhunov, U.U. Asymbekov, A. Elebesov, R. Alyshbaev, I.T. Bebnev, M.I. Logvinov, J. Turdubaev, B.O. Osmonov, E.B. Baitoloev, K.J. Ashiraliev and many others. Currently, the Faculty of "Technology and Bioresources" includes four departments: Department of Management of Animal Husbandry and Aquaculture named after M.N. Lushchikhin. M.N. Lushchikhin (Headed by Associate Professor Alykeev I.J.), Department of technology of processing of agricultural products (Headed by Associate Professor Maatkerimova J.M.), Department of Biotechnology and Chemistry (Headed by Professor Arzybaev M.A., Department of Kyrgyz and Russian languages (Headed by Associate Professor Osubekova G.T.). Modern educational and scientific laboratories and centers have been opened at the departments of the faculty, which are aimed at improving the quality of training of specialists capable of solving urgent problems of agricultural production. For the development of aquaculture and fisheries created a laboratory and educational and production fish farm, there is a Laboratory of plant biotechnology, where scientists of the university conduct research on the cultivation of virus-free potatoes, operates Virtual Laboratory for the introduction of new technologies for teaching educational programs and the pride of the faculty is the educational and research center of Academician Ch. Aitmatov. There are 9 doctors of sciences, professors, more than 20 candidates of sciences, associate professors in the faculty. For educational activity the faculty has modern educational and scientific base and participates in realization of international and republican projects. The faculty of "Technology and Bioresources" passes to a new stage of its development and today it trains specialists in actual directions: "Technology of production and processing of agricultural products" "Zootechnics", "Pasture management"; "Standardization, certification and metrology"; "Fishery" and "Biotechnology". In different years the deans of the faculty worked academician M.N.Lushikhin, professors Alagushev K.A., Abdykerimov A.A., Razakov I.R., Samykbaev A.K., Derkenbaev S.M., associate professor Alikeev I.J. Since 2022 the dean of the newly formed faculty "Technology and Bioresources" is Doctor of Veterinary Sciences, professor Aknazarov B.K.