«Explorer of the Polesie Lands» – for the 125th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Stepanovich Lupinovich, soil scientist and agricultural chemist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR, president of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the BSSR

July 6, 2025 marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Stepanovich Lupinovich, a soil scientist and agricultural chemist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR.

During his years of scientific activity, I.S. Lupinovich developed a methodology for complex natural and historical zoning of the territory of the USSR and the BSSR for agricultural use. He studied the genesis, physical, historical and biological properties of swampy and peat-bog soils and the possibilities of increasing their fertility. He studied the agro- and biochemical properties of soils and soil nutrition of plants.

On the YouTube channel of BGAKFFD, for the 125th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Stepanovich Lupinovich, a soil scientist and agricultural chemist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR, president of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the BSSR, a promotional video for the exhibition «Explorer of the Polesie Lands» was posted.

At present, the funds of the Belarusian State Archive of Film, Photo, and Sound Documents contain more than 20 units of photo documents from 1940 to 1959 and 12 units of film documents from 1949 to 1960 related to the scientific activities of I.S. Lupinovich.

Photo and film documents (plots of the documentaries “The 30th Year of the BSSR”, 1949, “Soviet Belarus”, 1951, “We Live in Minsk”, 1958, newsreels “Savetskaya Belarus” and “News of the Day”) allow us to see I.S. Lupinovich during meetings of the Scientific Council of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR, laboratory research, presentations at various meetings and much more.

Ivan Stepanovich Lupinovich passed away on October 9, 1968.

During the years of his scientific activity, he published over 120 scientific works, including 3 monographs. Under his scientific supervision, more than 50 candidate and 7 doctoral dissertations were defended.

The name of I.S. Lupinovich was assigned to the Belarusian Agricultural Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

1. Arch. No. 0-131024 I.S. Lupinovich, Belarusian Soviet soil scientist and agricultural chemist, at the map of the BSSR, 1940, Minsk

2. Arch. №0-005414 Participants in the extended session of the Department of Biological, Agricultural and Medical Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR with the participation of representatives of research institutions of the union republics: Full Member of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences named after V.I. Lenin (VASKhNIL) I.A. Sharov; Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR Ya.Ya. Bergman; Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR I.S. Lupinovich; Acting Director of the Institute of Land Reclamation, Water and Marsh Management of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR B.B. Belsky and foreman of the Chyrvonaya Zmena collective farm in the Lyuban district, Hero of Socialist Labor P.I. Galai, September 29, 1951, Minsk

3. Archive. №0-005412 Renowned soil scientist, academician of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences named after V.I. Lenin N.A. Dimo and Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR I.S. Lupinovich examine soil science maps of the BSSR, November 4, 1951, Minsk

4. Archive No. 0-004462 Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR I.S. Lupinovich tells soldiers of the N-th unit about the great construction projects of communism on the Volga and about shelterbelts, February 5, 1952, Pinsk

5. Archive No. 0-025658 Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR I.S. Lupinovich and Deputy Director of the Belarusian Research Institute of Land Reclamation and Water Management A.F. Pechkurov in a geotechnical laboratory studying the problem of transforming the nature of the Polesie Lowland, March 1952, Minsk

6. Archive №0-042496 Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR, Professor I.S. Lupinovich in his office, September 15, 1952, Minsk

7. Archive №0-006946 Scientific Director of the Laboratory of Physics and Biochemistry of Peat Soils, Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences Professor I.S. Lupinovich consults a postgraduate student of the Institute of Water Reclamation of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR V.V. Zhilko, October 22, 1952, Minsk

8. Archive №0-015573 Belarusian Soviet scientist in the field of soil science and agrochemistry, Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor, Honored Scientist of the BSSR I.S. Lupinovich in his office, May 29, 1956, Minsk

9. Archive №1-000398 Scientific consultant, vice-president of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR, professor I.S. Lupinovich and postgraduate student K.N. Yanushkevich in the laboratory of the Institute of Land Reclamation, Water and Marsh Management of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR, September 13, 1956, Minsk

10. Archive №0-049524 President of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the BSSR I.S. Lupinovich in his office, 1957, Minsk