Faculty of Agriculture

Chair of mechanization of agriculture

Acting as the Head of the Chair,
     Associate Professor, Ph.D. in Engineering,
Chernyaev Leonid Alekseevich

Lenin str., 33, room#154
Tel.: (814-2) 71-10-46
E-mail: leo@psu.karelia.ru

The chair of agriculrural production has been founded in 1954 at the Faculcty of Agriculture of PetrSU. In 1971 it has been reorganised into the chair of mechanization of agriculture.

Courses taught at the chair:

1. Agricultural machines
2. Tractors and motor vehicle
3. Exploitation of motor vehicle-tractor park
4. Mechanization of stock-raising farms
5. Automatic equipment
6. Mechanization and electrification of agriculrural production
7. Component of machines and lifting and transportation machines
8. Traffic regulations

Basic fields of scientific research

1. Effectiveness of utilization of means of plant-growing and stock-raising mechanization in Karelia.
2. Mechanization of vegetable- and potato-growing in Karelia.
3. Effectiveness of utilization of tractor heat-exchangers of various types.
4. Utilization of alternative fuels for internal-combustion engines in agriculture.

Personnel training

The chair of mechanization of agriculture provides professional training on the basis of the students' thorough theoretical knowledge.

While studying the students gain the experience of using the machine-tools, motor vehicles and tractors.

The students work on probation at the farms and holdings of the Republic of Karelia and Finland.

The graduates obtain the profession of mechanical engineers.