THE AZER AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE

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1. The Aaer rgriculturs Institute (Aaelrbs dzha,ssl i eI'sko-
lkaoz ystven, Institut - A.S. -.I.) wcs located in Kirovabad and occupied
several buildiasga in that town. The Institute alliaistration was located In
the so-called main building (alavaoye zd ni i) on Ui. Azizbeeov, close to
8erder Park. There were five other buildings comprising A. S.lth. I. a
a. The Special Building ( e s ApIpus) housed technical drawing,
mathematics, sooromaat, k rtraulics, tractors, and theory of machines and
zeech nisuskathedra-o. It was located on Home unidentified street in
the 1.rovabad a torcy a, Chast', usually reeforrod to as tb a Armenian n part
of town.
b. Chemical Builds (K m Korn, u-) housed the chemistry* thadra.
Located on come unknown street opposite the Wity ?oly; linic.
c. Thassi langupZe IVt a ra buil.din< on Ui, zizbe ov, close to
the main building.
d. Maf%.Lenta katbedra building on Ul. Aaizuegov, 200 meters from
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b. ieputy for Science ( aestit-o-V - .u3 ant) - . rofeesor
Co Deputy for Su,rply and t{nteneiace (aaaaes' its-l' ? ,,nr.nshe niYu)
ni * unknown.
The rseatai*P tai liatration persorreel of the 11net1tute consisted of a
,
c::ief accountant and cashier, the .president of the C? catmiittee (t)
cbast'. cloys to the special building.
2. !Mw Director of the Institute was Prof*near (fnu) 4 IY+'.
had three domtios:
a. Deputy for ucatio* (Z aestitsl,' 20 Ukhebae.oy C astt)
Pmfsasor All Al ber (lr-i).
the login ImilUng.
s0 military science lar h.d building in the IFirovab d vto'ya
the zaeaa of $ s etsotdsl allegedly entruetied with. tasks of iasoectir In
regard to all activities of the Institute.
.3. The . . Xh. I. md five d,pw:rt ae its raf errsd to as a~31 tasty:
a4ecbani*ation of gricultuze (>d*khantse ttiyec -It>akcaa o ~ oay_ffy_etwaE).
'phis vv-s the larPest & ad most ^ oonlar depsrt ent wit-n. the students,
c,1thovgb it had. a quite difficult awned large ,?ro, ra . It ?o lar1ty was
due to a vary practical s, rcialty aryl tbsa' great :oe*d tar the -aov ecoaoV,
of enpi.xteeers specialised, in aechsni:ed. * ridultuare.
b. _ rtiient of icalture ( nonaicbes k1 Z).
c. Vstta!aeta .
d. ?rzit (' iodov'ey-_1lod?&k) with a 4cia1 branches for vtneTartis,
wale, i tore and sericulture.
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e. oolo ;ical (ZoofaJ:) Department.
4. Entrance requirements of the Institute were either a con-Acted
intermediary school education (10 years) or completion of an agricwlture
technical school equivalent to a 10-year school. Entrance 3 .ns wero roc3aired
for five subjects: mathematics, physics, chemistry, Russian language, and
AzerbrijAnian literature. The first three were ~aral, and the last two oral
and written. r`crks given on these exams were from 5 (+jb.celleat) to 3 (ratio-
factory). The marks 2 and 1 were unsatisfactory and students who received
one of tb i were immediately barred from romaini, ,; ezrus. The total of V20
r arks rec+itved on all five exaaae had to be at least 21. Those wtth total
of 20 or less were rojected. Since the Institute accented aaaa lly cai roxi-
mately 400 students and there were a1r oat 10 times that, it- candidates
desiring entrane (in 1954 these were 25X1
3,500 candidates who took the entrance exams), the I.aetitute a;lzainiotrc ton
did not have any difficulty in selecting candidates. There were several
reasons for the popularity of the A.S.Xh.I. among; you.*ap people decirin to
obtain higher, educations
a. Hi her stipends paid by the Mate to A.L.gh.I. studsnts:
first year 270 rubles. second - 300, third - 340. fourth - 360, and.
fifth - 390 rixb1es. Compared with the Aser Teachers Institute (4tTZ)
and Azar 4edical Institute (A:4I) . these stipends were auproUimately
100 rubles a month higher. tip high stiDendc were
given in order to attract young people and to insure a sufficient
number of agricultural specialists for Sov agriculture.
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b . Fer*anent e- loyaent insured after completion of the
Institute. U like ao other branches of - econoer which de ended
on natural resources end their availability at various periods, such
as the oil Industry. Soar agriculture always needed more fad more
specialists else* it van still sit as underdeveloped branch of ow
econoaey. especially after the drive for the reclamation of virgin
lees was launched in the S
co ,x*sption from induction into the i y. Students at :. i. a i.1.
were riven military instruction at the Institute and after dimtion
held the lr of junior lleuten nt In the leserve Corps. ? hhie we
not the ease at ATE and some of the other Institutes where students
were called Into the Army either during their staai.es or ix diately
toerestter.
Ia 1956 and 1957 the policy regarding Stute sti onnds at r.. h. I. and
prssus bly at all other 3ov higher educational institutions, was cki ad.
A commission was argRnised to ascertain the financial status of students
r:n1 their parents. Those with sufficient financial :seans to sup" nrt the
selves through school no lower received the stipends. does not know
what t.C* income of the student ea .parents d to be in order to mrkq him
ineligible for a State educational stipend.
'the length of the educational year at A.S."' ,1. was 10 . ont .
from 1 aeeutember to 1 July. It was divided into two semesters: The wintei
semester from 1 eptem"ber to 15 January; and the summer semester from the
ber;inaine of February to 1 June. The time betireen the winter and sumnezr
semesters, as well as the zoath of Jane, was uir for exam* on suoJoets isr>a
which instruction had been completed and was asst-to lea f:'reaused durlu any
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other sesester. For hate ece, this was the case with chemistry and,
descriptive geometry which were taught oaly d urt the first ssseester.
xcapttens to this roe were aatba*satics and pbysics which were taught
for three seneostears with exam after each. The exceptions made were clue
to the importance and volume of the subjects. 1he lsAAh of thj~- entire
course at ! . . _ i. I. for all ft #cul tetY-s was five years or 10 seoestere.
The A. . n. T. eorrespondeace course was six years.
6. Tbo A.S.Ah.I. student body was divided. into two sections isferreed
as grouper the Ax*r .t, and esian, according; to the la *aa in
which ieneetraottoa was conducted. The Russian gro* vaz rather s i ana
had hardly 23 per cent of the total number of st zdeents, the Azar soup
about 75 per cont. The NtIssiaxn section was coaNiosed pertly of R ssla,n etud'*nts
who cum to Cirova from other Sov re zblice, especially froi the E F u
where, it was rumored, they bard not been able to Asa tine entrance ems
or whore the coapetitioa at exams was even stiffer than at A.+ .&h. `the
rest of the students in the ; Zsetaa section were native :zarbaija ni ins
whose parents had sent then to Russian nursorles and intermediary schools
in order, to they believed, to insure that their children would receive
better employment and a better living in the Soar ?+.Jnton in y of the -34v
republics. On the other ham, such parents were often of the opinion
that the iseerbaijan langs. poor. in technical and scientific ter-am, was
not adequate for study purposes or at least could not in this r eerd co'-
Hate with the l nselan.
does not know whether or not the Alzerbulle
lung=" was taught to students in the 'Rossi .n ruction., but the Rnae s
lan wge wus taught to students in the Aser section. The sections were
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never merged for any of the lectures nor were the individual fakul'tetr.c,
and the entire instruction was conducted separately for each of the five
departments.
S4 figber mathematics (v ss matem - ik ).
Docent *asa AZIMOV, and from aid-1955 (fnu) 21LTTIGAR.
Integral calculus, differential calculus, double and triple
integral, infinitesizaal value theorem.
b. '?'eios. Lecturer Ibrahim (m u).
Basic nuclear and atomic theory, iinetein's theory, light
spectrum, law of gravity, law of centrifugal force, and coupled
vessels theorem.
C. Chemistry. Docent Yunue ZAD.
Basic chemical elements with otreise on atrogen
and
fluorine gasses, and aluminum, copper, silver, gold, and other mete-le,
and their use in agriculture. ?Lendeleyev's law.
d. Descriptive geometry. Docent Mohammad Yusuf
AJND7,ATi, a very cspable instructor who, at the end of 1954, was
sent to 4oscew as a member of some scientific commission, and when he
returned to A,. S... I. In 1956 was promoted to professor.
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Technology of metals. Assistant Professor
& old ILYASOV.
ma Chin
Instruction on various LOU: mater lathes, planing, milling.
drilling, stamping, pressing hammers, and similar machines. Also oxygen
and electric welding.
f. Theoretical mechanics.
Zurban .LLB.
Basic laws and theories of mechanics and three laws of Newton.
Stretch
strangft of materials (sops). Lecturer med.
All (Inu), who was instructor on the same wabJect at the oil technical
school in Kirovabad.
:Laws and theories of metal stretch: steel, iron, and cast
hi. Theory of machines and mechanisms ('S). 'Professor
Nader MSEINOV.
Crankshaft, friction gear, sprocket fear. and basic theories
and laws of mechanization.
1. Machine components (datali mashie).
Lectures were given on the components of agricultural machines:
tractors Kh TZ, Kh TZ-HLTI, allegedly standards for Naushnyy Avto
Transportnyy Inetitut, Oh TZ, . Ch TZ-NATI, If-54 (diesel Vactor), 06-35
Moarif (lam).
(karbaratornodicel'nyy-35 HP), S-80
the number 180" indicates horse power. Combines of various
makes. Trucks: Zr$1-151, ZI$-5i (both later charged to ZIL), CAZ, trolley
bus ZIS (ZIL), passenger vehicles ZIM, Pobeda, and various makes of Sov
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buses. Lectures on the basic components o motor's propelling those
vehicles were given to students.
J. Technical drawing.
Teacher: e. ibaba
I DYNQVA, and later Mrs. (fnu.) MA M'RUSO7A.
plan
Drawing of various machine parts 1 n .,pima. profile, and
prospective in pencil and Chinese ink.
k. Marxr- Len i n theory.
lsoctarer (fnu) NANAZOV.
An abbreviated course in put*J& party history. Dialectical
materialism.
1. Political economy. lecturer D aril (mnu).
Lectures were _, ven on cep em, e.we u commerce, money,
goods and their relationship, loans and interest.
1 'ydraulics.
Docent (fn a) AU-AF O7. 25X1
Util tration of water streams for industrial purposes,
8ernoul l.i' a theorem, pl nniug and calculation of water supply for an
inbabited locality, and various hydraulic laws and theories.
n. Auto-Tractor. Docent (fnu) 'IMSP07`.
Theoretical and practical inetructicn on various types of
Soy agricultural tractors. The makes of tractors taught were the same
as those mentioned previously. under machine components.
0. 1griculture machinery.
Instruction given on various types of glove, combines, tobacco,
trees, corn, potatoes, sugar boats, oil plants and other 'Le.nti ;
Marhinsit utilising machines.
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I'usl and lubricants.
:lecturer Una)
Urio as types of r asoliAes saed librics:nts: avtol, le jin,
.yawl anil their coepositioa, chsracteriertics, and s erctrtcttion*.
Analysis of fuels amd lubricants.
Soil pree;peration, planting of grain cereals, cotton, v -
tables, fruit trees. care of plants, waedietn, irrigation, :ha re et .
r. rsadyn"icee. flocerat (fnia3 .: ;." who was
tr .nsferred at the beginning of 1957 to z(oefrnw to qarfcam some stir_rt.tific
Agriculture.
lecturdr iti nown.
work. tea his abssnce, lectures were liven b7 Xurben 4 4 Itt ,
lsctnrer on theoretical mec ntca.
at a ad second low of ther.=aodya acs, hollers .Pad boiler
fuels, steam ran ;tnes, and he.atis +; installations.
s..lectrieel er aiiesrin ;.
.Lecturer $iya (m u)
Liw'e law, non(?) theorem, asrucroaised chine. FArchhoff's
theorem, electro motors, aerators, E=,n:3 sarcuauiators.
t. 'tttin s and tolerance 44. :1 -yes: ks. .
faculty J10'a ' cent (feu) lUYIXY.
`ntem tioesal a reexo is and aruleae on fittings anl tiaa
ixe rortence of these rules; Soviet, various foreign, and tnteraationL3.
toler?ence s on macbiea coea-poneats and details; mo*surine, instruum nta gin1
de rie:eee; r]ea nees (sez r) and way of clei:tIxIRnc esesuring;.
U. 'b'us s iu,a lace a +le.
v. Physical tratnt2?.
r,.-r !small
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Iranians at A.S.Kh.I., as foreign citizens,
were not allowed to attend the military training given as part of the
A.S.I h.I. program. Throughout the et -ht terms, four hours a week of this
training; were riven to male students who were Sov citizens. The sere
applied to I4PVO (meatus retio-vosdushnaya cab orcma) which was taught for
two hours a week during one term.
9. Several, other subjects were taught tbxough the six to 10 terms
10. Lectures and practical work at A. S. EIL I. were given sic days a
week for six to eight hours a day, either from 0800 to 1400 or 1600
depending on the day's schedule. luring;' the period 1.954-1956, attendance
at lectures was compulsory and roll call always preceded the first lecture
each morning. In 1957, as rumored, this rule was changed and attendance
of lectures was left to the discretion of the students as long as they were
able to pass the exams.
11. very year, after the completion of the summer semester and the
semester exams, all A.S.7Ih.I. students were sent for four weeks of practical
training.
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12. Jitter their completion of the full course of studies, student
graduates were given diploma projects to prepare + nd defend. Students of
the mechanisation department who successfully coEpleted their projects were
given a diploma of agry4cultural engineer.
13. In addition to the State stipend, while studying at A. S. Kh. I. , students
whose parents were not in Kirovabad. were given space in the A.S.-Kb.I.
dormitories, of which there were three. One dormitory for approximately 300
male students was located on Kirovahaya Ploshchsd'. The other male dormitory,
referred to as Dormitory No. 2. had space for 400 and was on X11. perdowel.
The third dormitory, partly occupied by female ettadents.
dormitories
Students in 1111 me xd-MisttGn were given. bed linen and cleaning
service for which they paid 15 rubles per month. Students who preferred to
rent a room instead of living in a dormitory were given 25 rubles a month in
addition to their stipends. The dormitories had mess halls where students
could have their meals at normal town prices. A modest two-course meal--
soup and meat with a vegetable-cost aaproaimately six rubles.
regular one from the Sov State described in paragraph 4 above and the Azer
Dom Party stipend of 300 rubles a month. In 1956 and 1937, the Soy State
stipend was increased to 500 rubles a month and paid through the Red Cross
and Red Crescent Society in Kirovabad. The Party stipend remained the same
as befors-300 rubles a month.
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