Viktor SOBOL
SOBOL Viktor
Academic Degree, Title: Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, Senior ResearcherPosition: Head of the Nursery Department
Research Interests: Technologies for growing planting material, perennial plantations of fruit and berry crops
PhD Thesis Topic: “Productivity of cherry plantations of low-growing varieties depending on tree spacing schemes and crown formation methods under the conditions of the Northern Forest-Steppe of Ukraine” (Belarusian Research Institute of Horticulture, Samokhvalovichi) (1992).
Scientific School: Supervised 2 PhD candidates. Served as an opponent for 10 PhD dissertations in the specialty of pomology.
Brief Biography
Born on January 27, 1959, in Yahubets village, Khrystynivka District, Cherkasy Region.
1985–1988 – Chief Agronomist of the “Yuvileynyi” state farm, Monastyryshche District, Cherkasy Region.
1988–1990 – Postgraduate student at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Horticulture.
Since 1991 – Researcher; from 1995 – Head of the Laboratory of Stone Fruit Crops, Head of the Department of Agrotechnology, Selection and Technology Department of Pome Fruit Crops, Head of the Agrochemical Research Sector. Since 2010 – Head of the Nursery Department.
Since 2012 – Head of the creative group developing projects for the establishment of fruit, berry, and nut plantations.
Annually prepares 15–20 projects, conducts 10–15 site assessments for suitability for plantations, provides approximately 50 oral consultations, and gives 2–3 television and radio appearances per year.
Professional Development:
Nikitsky Botanical Garden, 1998;
Institute of Water Problems and Land Reclamation, NAAS of Ukraine, 2022.
Public Activity:
Chairman of the Trade Union Committee of the Institute of Horticulture, NAAS of Ukraine; Member of the Trade Union Committee of the Institute of Horticulture, NAAS of Ukraine.
