SOS

Dear colleagues and friends!

We are contacting you at a difficult moment for Timiryazevka. March 4 p.m. The Government Commission for the Development of Housing Construction and Assessment of the Efficiency of Use of Land Plots, headed by Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, decided to terminate the right of permanent (perpetual) use of the RGAU-MSHA named after K. A. Timiryazev land plots located on the territory of the university campus, on which experimental fields and the Michurinsky Garden are located (with a total area of ​​more than 100 hectares). On March 16, a decision was made by the Housing Development Fund (RHD), according to which it is planned to build residential buildings with a total area of ​​up to 2.5 million square meters on these sites. m. It is obvious that depriving the university of its educational, scientific and production base will lead to its disappearance in just a few years.

The confiscated lands were transferred to the Petrovskaya (now Timiryazevskaya) Academy at the time of its formation (1865). In 2008, by Presidential Decree No. 1343, Timiryazevka was included in the list of especially valuable objects of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation. We hoped that this would be enough to make our alma mater feel protected. Nevertheless, government bureaucrats (with the support of our founder, the Russian Ministry of Agriculture) launched a swift attack.

Unfortunately, we did not find support from our new rector Vyacheslav Lukomets. On Monday, April 11, more than 3 thousand people. went to a rally in support of the repeal of the government decree on the illegal seizure of land. In this regard, we ask for your support. We distributed a letter to universities, institutes and our other partners in Russia, the CIS, Europe, America and others (see appendix). We will be grateful to you if you can organize a letter of support from your university (institute, organization, company) addressed to the President of Russia V.V. Putin, signed by the head.

We will also be grateful if you distribute this letter among your colleagues and partners so that they also support our fight. Thank you for your cooperation. This is our last hope.

A. Solovyov, V. Koshelev, I. Tarakanov
on behalf of and on behalf of the teaching staff,
educational support staff, students and graduate students of Timiryazevka