SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700120611-8
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 611
• Publication Date: August 19, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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The National Biological Conference was held in Liblice on 1 and 2 Decem-
ber 1952 to discuss problems regarding noncellular forms of life. One of the
scientists attending the conference was Dr Aleksander Nikolayevich Studitskiy,
professor of biological sciences in the USSR, who will remain in Czechoslovakia
about 14 days.
Professor Aleksander Nikolayevich Studitskiy, after attending the Czecho-
slovak National Biological Conference in Liblice, will present two lectures in
Prague this week. On 4 December, he will talk on the theme, "Paths and Per-
spectives of Living Matter in Morphology," in the lar a assembly hall of the
Purkyne Biological Institute in Prague II, Albertov university section of
Prague. On 5 December, he will lecture on the subject, "I. P. Pavlov, the
Greatest Contemporary Biologist." This lecture, which will be open to the
general public, will be given in the Narodni Klub in Prague.
Aleksander Fedorovich Seremetev, dean of the Biological Faculty of the
State University in Gorkiy, who is lecturing on genetics in the natural Sci-
ences department of Charles University in Prague this semester, gave a public
lecture in the Narodni Klub in Prague on the theme "Michurin's Teachings Re-
garding the Development of Organism." Th.n lecture was sponsored by the Czech-
Soviet Friendship Institute. All research workers, especially members of the
Michurin Youth Groups, were invited to attend.
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENTISTS OPENS IN PRAGUE ?--
Zemedelske Noviny, 14 Jan 53
On 13 January 1953, the day after the inauguration of the Czechoslovak
Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the International Conference of Agricul-
tural Scientists opened in Prague. The following delegations attended: USSR,
led by Mikhail A. 01'shanskiy, vice-president of the All-Union Academy of
Agricultural Sciences imeni V. I. Lenin; Poland, led by Prof Dr Mieczyslav
Czaja, Deputy Minister of Agriculture; Hungary, led by Andras Somos, member
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Rumania, led by Alexandru Priacencu,
member of the Rumanian Academy of Sciences; GDR, led by Rudolf Schick, uni-
veraity professor from Rostock.
The conference was opened by the academician Antonin Klecka, who presided.
He read telegrams of greetings from the Chinese People's Republic and other
countries, and from local JZD (Unified Agricultural Cooperatives), MPS, and
other organizations. Mn Klecka then announced that the working program of
the conference would consist of four sections: plant production, animal pro-
duction, mechanization of agriculture, and economic sections. All four sec-
tions will try to follow the advancement of agricultural science as exemplified
in the USSR, and to work as closely as possible with the findings of Soviet
science.
NATIONAL MEDICINAL PLANT CONFERENCE HELD IN PRAGUE -- Zemedelske Noviny,
30 Jan 53
On 29 January 1953, a 2-day National Medicinal Plant Conference opened
in Prague under the auspices of the Czech-Soviet Friendship Institute and
the Ministry of Agriculture.
Gathered together were all the medicinal plant growers, as well as the
research workers and agricultural university students. Present at the open-
ing session were: Jan Ledl, Deputy Minister of Agriculture; Antonin Klecka,
president of the CSAZV (Czechoslovak Academy of Agricultural Sciences); cor-
responding members of the CSAZV: a representative of the Office of the Presi-
dent of the Republic; and others.
The morning session was opened by Jan Ledl. The discussion was devoted
to the great importance of all medicinal plant growers' efforts in the con-
trol of various plant pests. Ledl said that the government was allotting
large sums for such plant pest control.
The afternoon session was attended by Jozef Nepomucky, Minister of Agri-
culture, and Engr Vladimir Statsenko, member of the Trade Commission of the
USSR.
Jozef Nepomucky, in his address to the gathering, stressed the two roads
to increased production of medicinal plants: better cultivation of the soil,
and prevention of loss caused by pests and weeds.
Engineer Statsenko spcke about the organization of the medicinal plant
growers, quarantine services, and the assistance of the MTS in the care of
such plants in the USSR.
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