History

The National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (NUBiP) is a leading higher agricultural education institution in Ukraine. Its history dates back to the agricultural department, which was established on September 30, 1898, at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and transformed in 1918 into the agricultural (agronomic) faculty. Based on this faculty, in 1922, the Kyiv Agricultural Institute was created as part of KPI, and from 1923 it became an independent higher educational institution. Between 1930 and 1934, several new institutions were formed based on the Kyiv Agricultural Institute: the Kyiv Agronomical Institute, the Kyiv Institute of Mechanization and Electrification of Agriculture, the Kyiv Agroengineering Institute for the Sugar Industry, and the Agro-economic Institute, which were later reorganized into independent research institutes and faculties.

 

The Kyiv Forestry Institute began its history in 1840 with the Forestry Faculty of the Institute of Agriculture and Forestry in Marymont (Poland), which was relocated to Novoaleksandriya (now Puławy, Poland) in 1862. At the start of World War I in 1914, the Novoaleksandriya Agricultural and Forestry Institute was moved to Kharkiv, and in 1921 it was renamed the Kharkiv Agricultural and Forestry Institute. In 1930, the forestry faculty of the Kharkiv Agricultural Institute merged with the forestry engineering faculty of the Kyiv Agricultural Institute, resulting in the formation of the Ukrainian Forestry Technical Institute, which in the same year was reorganized into the Kyiv Forestry Institute.

 

In 1954, the Kyiv Agricultural Institute was merged with the Ukrainian Forestry Institute into a single educational institution, the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. From 1956 to 1962, the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy was part of the Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Sciences as its educational division.

 

In 1957, the Kyiv Veterinary Institute, which had its origins in the veterinary faculty of KPI (1920), was incorporated into the academy. The veterinary faculty was separated into an independent institution, the Kyiv Veterinary Zootechnical Institute, which in 1930 became the Kyiv Veterinary Institute.

 

In 1962, the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy came under the jurisdiction of the USSR Ministry of Agriculture. In 1982, the Vinnytsia branch of the academy was established and became an independent institute in 1991, now known as the Vinnytsia State Agrarian University.

 

Between 1985 and 1990, the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy provided assistance and coordinated efforts to establish an agricultural institute in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

 

In August 1992, the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy was reorganized into the Ukrainian State Agricultural University, which was granted the status of a national university by the Supreme Council of Ukraine on July 29, 1994. The university was renamed the National Agricultural University (NAU), and according to a Cabinet of Ministers decree on June 1, 1995, it became under the functional management of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

 

By the Cabinet of Ministers' resolutions on April 23, 1996, and May 29, 1997, several agricultural colleges were transferred to NAU. In 1999, the Irpin and Nemyshaiiv Technicums were granted college status after accreditation, and in 2000, the Nizhyn and Berezhany colleges were upgraded to institute status.

 

In 2004, the Cabinet of Ministers created the Southern branch of the "Crimean Agrarian Technology University" as a structural subdivision of the NAU in Simferopol, Crimea. The same year, the Ukrainian Scientific-Research Institute of Agricultural Radiology was integrated into the NAU.

 

In December 2005, the Bobrovytsia State Agricultural and Economic Technical School was merged with the NAU.

 

By the Presidential Decree on December 14, 2000, the National Agricultural University was granted the status of a state self-governing higher educational institution. In 2008, the university was renamed the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (NUBiP), reflecting its expanded focus on the study of life sciences, environmental management, sustainable development, and ecological agriculture.

 

In accordance with the Cabinet of Ministers' decree on November 5, 2008, the military department at NUBiP was reinstated, and the university continued its research, educational, and innovation activities, contributing to Ukraine's agricultural, environmental, and industrial sectors.