1738. The scientist Andrey Bolotov was born
280 years ago, on October 18, 1738, Andrei Timofeevich Bolotov, a scientist and a memoirist, one of the founders of Russian agronomic science was born. In his capital work "On the separation of fields", published in 1771, and in other works of Bolotov, for the first time in Russia, he proposed to widely introduce crop rotation and use agrotechnical techniques for cultivating cultivated plants based on local natural conditions (primarily weather and soil).