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**Trofim Lysenko ** **Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (September** 29, 1898 – November 20, 1976) A peasant's son from Karlovka (now in Ukraine), Lysenko began work at the Kirovabad Experimental Station in 1925, after completing his studies at the Kiev Agricultural Institute. he was an agronomist who was director of Soviet biology under Joseph Stalin. His unorthodox experimental research in improved crop yields earned the support of Soviet leadership. In 1929 he became a senior specialist in the physiology section at the Institute of Selection and Genetics in Odessain and 1940 he became director of the Institute of Genetics within the USSR's Academy of Sciences. His unorthodox experimental research in improved crop yields earned the support of Soviet leadership, especially following the famine and loss of productivity resulting from forced collectivization in several regions of the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.