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BfR People
Here we have listed some of the Biointensive teachers, organizers, and researchers in Russia and Uzbekistan. Check back soon for pictures and biographies. Rustam Arzykhanov and Sara Imbarova
Nukus, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan
<cfarmer@uzpak.uz>As co-directors of the Farmer Center, Rustam and Sara ably hosted our 3-day and 5-day seminars in Nukus in 1998 and 2000. They also conduct experiments and teach Biointensive. Sara has just recently taken on a new position as Director of the Nukus office of Counterpart Consortium. The Farmer Center has established a program of composting in a mahalla cooperative living center in Nukus.Aleksandr Valentinovich and Larissa Vasilievna Avrorin
<auro@online.sinor.ru>
<lavrorina@cafrussia.ru>Aleksandr Avrorin and Larissa Avrorina have studied BI since 1994.Both have attended Ecology Action workshops in Willits: Larissa in 1994 and 1997, Aleksandr in 1999. Larissa has presented many seminars since spring 1995; Aleksandr has also presented many since 1998, mostly in Novosibirsk and Altai regions. Larissa co-presented a 3-day workshop with Carol Cox from Ecology Action in August 1997. Aleksandr presented workshops in Krasnodarsky krai in August 2000 and in St. Petersburg and Novo-Sin'kovo in Jan. 2001. Leaving their fully double-dug dacha garden in Akademgorodok behind, the Avrorins are currently moving to Moscow, where Larissa now works with the Charities Aid Foundation of Britain. Besides teaching Biointensive, Aleksandr consults on ecodesign and other sustainability issues.Yury Azovtsev
St. Petersburg
<yury@azovtsev.spb.su>
<azov@vast.spb.su>Yury has served as e-mail liaison for Albina Kochegina since 1995, when she returned from a three-day workshop in Willits. He is also helping to finish the translation of SUSTAINABLE VEGETABLE GARDEN and has typeset it in PageMaker, and serves as liaison with Russian publishers. A physicist, Yury works in the field of vibroacoustics and also teaches the topic at the university level.Tatyana Bruk and Jennie Sutton
<sutton@baikalwave.eu.org>Tatyana Bruk represented Baikal Environmental Wave at Ecology Action's 3-Day Workshop in Willits in 1996. She and Jennie have practiced Biointensive, but their major contribution was to publish an article on BI in the environmental education journal that Tatyana helps edit. Jennie is Director of BEW.Valery Godovnikov
<yuri@yuritm.kms.ru> Valery Godovnikov is a retired physicist,churchman, and dacha gardener. He attended Ecology Action 3DW in 1997.Dr. Bakhtiar Jollibekov
Nukus, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan
<berdiyar@mail.ru> Dr. Bakhtiar Jollibekov attended the 5-day seminar taught by Daniel and Amber Vallotton in Nukus in 2000, and has been racticing and teaching Biointensive ever since. He has been experimenting with his son Berdiyar Jollibekov and Scott O'Connor at the experimental station sponsored by Central Asia Free Exchange (CAFE) in Nukus, and in his home garden, reclaiming salinized soil by introducing compost.Irina Kim
Chirchik (near Tashkent), Uzbekistan
<kim_irina2001@yahoo.com>Irina had performed 15 years of graduate work in soil science before reading KAK VYRASCHIVAT' BOL'SHE OVOSCHEI ... in 1994. The book inspired her to obtain permission from the Education Ministry to establish a new subject of study in a Chirchik high school, Biointensive Mini-Farming and Soil Science. She has taught over 100 students for 2 or 3 years thus far. The best students belong to the Eco-Club and accompany Irina to villages in Nuratau Nature Reserve and Brichmulla Forestry Farm to teach Biointensive. Irina has hosted Winrock visits in 1998, 1999, and 2000 (Patrick Williams, Albie Miles, and Daniel and Amber Vallotton), and participated with her students in the Nukus workshop in 2000. The 2000 visit included 3 days in the Nuratau Nature Reserve where local teachers are practicing and teaching the method to their students and their families in 4 mountain and 2 desert villages.Dr. Ludmila Zhirina
Igor Prokofiev
<viola@ecos.bryansk.ru>Dr. Ludmila Zhirina, Director of the NGO "Viola" in Bryansk, a city located near the Russian border with Ukraine in a region largely irradiated by the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Viola's Albina Samsonova attended the March 1996 3-Day Workshop in Willits, and lectured on the method after returning to Bryansk. Viola hosted a 3-day seminar in 1999, presented by Albie Miles of the Agroecology Program at UC Santa Cruz. Zhirina, Samsonova and others tested Biointensive on their own plots, then experiments in summer 2000 inspired Viola to conduct a broad program of teaching the method in Bryansk and throughout the oblast' in 2001. Their work was supported by a small grant of $2000 from Biointensive for Russia. Ludmila hopes to win a grant of $20,000 or more for Viola to conduct an even more thoroughgoing program of teaching and experimentation. Albina Kochegina
<Yury@azovtsev.spb.su>
<kochegin@rona.ru> (Vitaly Kochegin)Albina attended the 3-Day Workshop in Willits in 1995. She has lectured, made radio and TV broadcasts, and taught Biointensive ever since, mostly in the Center for Youth Creativity's Young Naturalist program based at the Alive Earth Center near Smolny Cathedral in central St. Petersburg. She coordinated our 3-day seminar taught by Patrick Williams in Pushkin, Pavlovsk, and Shushary in 1998. In 2001, at the Alive Earth Center, she hosted one day of BI basics and one day of ecodesign taught by Aleksandr. Avrorin, and one day of BI experiment reports by adults and teenagers. This year she has been sending research reports which will be published in upcoming BfR and Ecology Action newsletters.Andrei Alekseevich Komarov
Andrei Komarov is a kandidat in agricultural chemistry and thepresident of Green Gift, an association of farmers, amateurgardeners, and fruit growers interested in conducting experimentscomparing Biointensive with other methods, collaboratively withAmerican experimenters. He attended our BfR workshops in St. Petersburgin 1998 and 2001 and in Novo-Sin'kovo in Jan. 2001.Vera Korsakova
Novosibirsk, Siberia
Fax 383-2 33-25-98Vera has worked with Aleksandr Avrorin since 1997 to organize BI seminars in Novosibirsk, other West Siberian cities, and the Altai region. Her sister Marina Skalalskaya and Marina's husband Viktor practice BI in Salganda and have hosted seminars there. Vera is Director of the Siberian Ecological Foundation and worked with Aleksandr Avrorin in 1999 to apply (unsuccessfully) for a major ROLL grant.Natalya Krestiankina
St. Petersburg, Russia
<nata.igor@mailbox.alkor.ru>Natasha attended the Willits 3-Day Workshop in 1995 with Albina Kochegina. She teaches English and Farming at middle-school level -- like Albina, in the Young Naturalist program. Her students have run an experiment showing that Biointensive produces more potatoes per unit area than the deep-mulch method, and they translate the chapter on compost in HOW TO GROW ... as one of their exercises. Natasha hosted a session at her school during our 1998 seminar visit, and spoke at our seminar in St. Petersburg in January 2001.Vladimir Loginov
Krasnodarsky krai, Russia
<loginov_vl@mail.ru>
<loginov@ecoinf.kurg.kuban.su>Vladimir attended the 1996 3-Day Workshop in Willits and stayed on to work for two weeks, acquiring a computer system in the process. After returning to Kurganinsk, he not only build a U-bar (he can do welding!), but also went online within two months and started a local environmental organization. He has produced a TV series on Biointensive, practiced and taught the method to adults and children, and teamed up with the local agriculture school to apply (unsuccessfully) for a major ROLL grant to disseminate the method. He returned for a short Ecology Action internship in 1999, and attended a Children's Environmental Health conference in Washington, DC in September, 2001 at the invitation of a Canadian environmental health organization. (He met and recruited Natalya Belova to the Biointensive cause while at the conference!)Overend J. ("O.J.") Lougheed
Irkutsk, Siberia
<nerpanet@mcn.org>O.J. has practiced Biointensive since the 70s in the U.S., and since 1997 in Irkutsk, after moving there with the intention of becoming a Russian citizen. He promotes Biointensive and organic farming and Macintosh computer use and networking there among the youth. He maintains a Web site, http://www.nerpa.net .Vladimir and Ol'ga Shestakov
St. Petersburg, Russia
<vshestak@neva.spb.su>Vladimir, who is completely bilingual and who travels frequently to the US to facilitate business internships administered by the Center for Citizen Initiatives, has been BfR's longest and best supporter in Russia. Through his networking, we have found many of our best participants, and he and Olga have helped host us many times. The Shestakovs' dacha is in Sortavala, where Vladimir Loginov has helped them double-dig their beds. We hope that Olga will eventually be able to participate in a 3-day seminar and teach. Evgenii Petrovich Shmelev
Novo-Sin'kovo, near Dmitrov, Russia
<root.dmtrv@rex.iasnet.ru>Evgenii Shmelev, Director of the Foreign Methods Laboratory of the Educational Methods Center of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, hosted a 3-day seminar presented by Albie Miles in 1999, and another presented by Aleksandr Avrorin in 2001 with Viktor Voronkov and Ivan Zakharovich Antiushin, EMC's Deputy Director and Director. Antiushin attended a 3-Day Workshop in Willits in 1996. (Our relationship with the Ministry of Agriculture was originally established in 1995 through Valentin Aleksandrovich Smirnov, Deputy Ministry of Agriculture.) Evgenii is planning to host a 5-day seminar on Biointensive and a one-day seminar on Passive Solar Greenhouse Design, April 15-20, 2002. Anatoly Skorobogatov
<dip1999@mail.ru>Anatoly began practising Biointensive in 2001, after attending seminars in Kurganinsk and Rostov in August 2000 and in Novo-Sin'kovo in January 2001 taught by Aleksandr Avrorin. He built his house, from an American-style concrete-block, passive-solar design, with the help of Colorado writer Doug Walker. He is prepared to help Andrei Syrovoi host workshops in Rostov.
Nukus, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan
<cfarmer@uzpak.uz>As co-directors of the Farmer Center, Rustam and Sara ably hosted our 3-day and 5-day seminars in Nukus in 1998 and 2000. They also conduct experiments and teach Biointensive. Sara has just recently taken on a new position as Director of the Nukus office of Counterpart Consortium. The Farmer Center has established a program of composting in a mahalla cooperative living center in Nukus.Aleksandr Valentinovich and Larissa Vasilievna Avrorin
<auro@online.sinor.ru>
<lavrorina@cafrussia.ru>Aleksandr Avrorin and Larissa Avrorina have studied BI since 1994.Both have attended Ecology Action workshops in Willits: Larissa in 1994 and 1997, Aleksandr in 1999. Larissa has presented many seminars since spring 1995; Aleksandr has also presented many since 1998, mostly in Novosibirsk and Altai regions. Larissa co-presented a 3-day workshop with Carol Cox from Ecology Action in August 1997. Aleksandr presented workshops in Krasnodarsky krai in August 2000 and in St. Petersburg and Novo-Sin'kovo in Jan. 2001. Leaving their fully double-dug dacha garden in Akademgorodok behind, the Avrorins are currently moving to Moscow, where Larissa now works with the Charities Aid Foundation of Britain. Besides teaching Biointensive, Aleksandr consults on ecodesign and other sustainability issues.Yury Azovtsev
St. Petersburg
<yury@azovtsev.spb.su>
<azov@vast.spb.su>Yury has served as e-mail liaison for Albina Kochegina since 1995, when she returned from a three-day workshop in Willits. He is also helping to finish the translation of SUSTAINABLE VEGETABLE GARDEN and has typeset it in PageMaker, and serves as liaison with Russian publishers. A physicist, Yury works in the field of vibroacoustics and also teaches the topic at the university level.Tatyana Bruk and Jennie Sutton
<sutton@baikalwave.eu.org>Tatyana Bruk represented Baikal Environmental Wave at Ecology Action's 3-Day Workshop in Willits in 1996. She and Jennie have practiced Biointensive, but their major contribution was to publish an article on BI in the environmental education journal that Tatyana helps edit. Jennie is Director of BEW.Valery Godovnikov
<yuri@yuritm.kms.ru> Valery Godovnikov is a retired physicist,churchman, and dacha gardener. He attended Ecology Action 3DW in 1997.Dr. Bakhtiar Jollibekov
Nukus, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan
<berdiyar@mail.ru> Dr. Bakhtiar Jollibekov attended the 5-day seminar taught by Daniel and Amber Vallotton in Nukus in 2000, and has been racticing and teaching Biointensive ever since. He has been experimenting with his son Berdiyar Jollibekov and Scott O'Connor at the experimental station sponsored by Central Asia Free Exchange (CAFE) in Nukus, and in his home garden, reclaiming salinized soil by introducing compost.Irina Kim
Chirchik (near Tashkent), Uzbekistan
<kim_irina2001@yahoo.com>Irina had performed 15 years of graduate work in soil science before reading KAK VYRASCHIVAT' BOL'SHE OVOSCHEI ... in 1994. The book inspired her to obtain permission from the Education Ministry to establish a new subject of study in a Chirchik high school, Biointensive Mini-Farming and Soil Science. She has taught over 100 students for 2 or 3 years thus far. The best students belong to the Eco-Club and accompany Irina to villages in Nuratau Nature Reserve and Brichmulla Forestry Farm to teach Biointensive. Irina has hosted Winrock visits in 1998, 1999, and 2000 (Patrick Williams, Albie Miles, and Daniel and Amber Vallotton), and participated with her students in the Nukus workshop in 2000. The 2000 visit included 3 days in the Nuratau Nature Reserve where local teachers are practicing and teaching the method to their students and their families in 4 mountain and 2 desert villages.Dr. Ludmila Zhirina
Igor Prokofiev
<viola@ecos.bryansk.ru>Dr. Ludmila Zhirina, Director of the NGO "Viola" in Bryansk, a city located near the Russian border with Ukraine in a region largely irradiated by the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Viola's Albina Samsonova attended the March 1996 3-Day Workshop in Willits, and lectured on the method after returning to Bryansk. Viola hosted a 3-day seminar in 1999, presented by Albie Miles of the Agroecology Program at UC Santa Cruz. Zhirina, Samsonova and others tested Biointensive on their own plots, then experiments in summer 2000 inspired Viola to conduct a broad program of teaching the method in Bryansk and throughout the oblast' in 2001. Their work was supported by a small grant of $2000 from Biointensive for Russia. Ludmila hopes to win a grant of $20,000 or more for Viola to conduct an even more thoroughgoing program of teaching and experimentation. Albina Kochegina
<Yury@azovtsev.spb.su>
<kochegin@rona.ru> (Vitaly Kochegin)Albina attended the 3-Day Workshop in Willits in 1995. She has lectured, made radio and TV broadcasts, and taught Biointensive ever since, mostly in the Center for Youth Creativity's Young Naturalist program based at the Alive Earth Center near Smolny Cathedral in central St. Petersburg. She coordinated our 3-day seminar taught by Patrick Williams in Pushkin, Pavlovsk, and Shushary in 1998. In 2001, at the Alive Earth Center, she hosted one day of BI basics and one day of ecodesign taught by Aleksandr. Avrorin, and one day of BI experiment reports by adults and teenagers. This year she has been sending research reports which will be published in upcoming BfR and Ecology Action newsletters.Andrei Alekseevich Komarov
Andrei Komarov is a kandidat in agricultural chemistry and thepresident of Green Gift, an association of farmers, amateurgardeners, and fruit growers interested in conducting experimentscomparing Biointensive with other methods, collaboratively withAmerican experimenters. He attended our BfR workshops in St. Petersburgin 1998 and 2001 and in Novo-Sin'kovo in Jan. 2001.Vera Korsakova
Novosibirsk, Siberia
Fax 383-2 33-25-98Vera has worked with Aleksandr Avrorin since 1997 to organize BI seminars in Novosibirsk, other West Siberian cities, and the Altai region. Her sister Marina Skalalskaya and Marina's husband Viktor practice BI in Salganda and have hosted seminars there. Vera is Director of the Siberian Ecological Foundation and worked with Aleksandr Avrorin in 1999 to apply (unsuccessfully) for a major ROLL grant.Natalya Krestiankina
St. Petersburg, Russia
<nata.igor@mailbox.alkor.ru>Natasha attended the Willits 3-Day Workshop in 1995 with Albina Kochegina. She teaches English and Farming at middle-school level -- like Albina, in the Young Naturalist program. Her students have run an experiment showing that Biointensive produces more potatoes per unit area than the deep-mulch method, and they translate the chapter on compost in HOW TO GROW ... as one of their exercises. Natasha hosted a session at her school during our 1998 seminar visit, and spoke at our seminar in St. Petersburg in January 2001.Vladimir Loginov
Krasnodarsky krai, Russia
<loginov_vl@mail.ru>
<loginov@ecoinf.kurg.kuban.su>Vladimir attended the 1996 3-Day Workshop in Willits and stayed on to work for two weeks, acquiring a computer system in the process. After returning to Kurganinsk, he not only build a U-bar (he can do welding!), but also went online within two months and started a local environmental organization. He has produced a TV series on Biointensive, practiced and taught the method to adults and children, and teamed up with the local agriculture school to apply (unsuccessfully) for a major ROLL grant to disseminate the method. He returned for a short Ecology Action internship in 1999, and attended a Children's Environmental Health conference in Washington, DC in September, 2001 at the invitation of a Canadian environmental health organization. (He met and recruited Natalya Belova to the Biointensive cause while at the conference!)Overend J. ("O.J.") Lougheed
Irkutsk, Siberia
<nerpanet@mcn.org>O.J. has practiced Biointensive since the 70s in the U.S., and since 1997 in Irkutsk, after moving there with the intention of becoming a Russian citizen. He promotes Biointensive and organic farming and Macintosh computer use and networking there among the youth. He maintains a Web site, http://www.nerpa.net .Vladimir and Ol'ga Shestakov
St. Petersburg, Russia
<vshestak@neva.spb.su>Vladimir, who is completely bilingual and who travels frequently to the US to facilitate business internships administered by the Center for Citizen Initiatives, has been BfR's longest and best supporter in Russia. Through his networking, we have found many of our best participants, and he and Olga have helped host us many times. The Shestakovs' dacha is in Sortavala, where Vladimir Loginov has helped them double-dig their beds. We hope that Olga will eventually be able to participate in a 3-day seminar and teach. Evgenii Petrovich Shmelev
Novo-Sin'kovo, near Dmitrov, Russia
<root.dmtrv@rex.iasnet.ru>Evgenii Shmelev, Director of the Foreign Methods Laboratory of the Educational Methods Center of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, hosted a 3-day seminar presented by Albie Miles in 1999, and another presented by Aleksandr Avrorin in 2001 with Viktor Voronkov and Ivan Zakharovich Antiushin, EMC's Deputy Director and Director. Antiushin attended a 3-Day Workshop in Willits in 1996. (Our relationship with the Ministry of Agriculture was originally established in 1995 through Valentin Aleksandrovich Smirnov, Deputy Ministry of Agriculture.) Evgenii is planning to host a 5-day seminar on Biointensive and a one-day seminar on Passive Solar Greenhouse Design, April 15-20, 2002. Anatoly Skorobogatov
<dip1999@mail.ru>Anatoly began practising Biointensive in 2001, after attending seminars in Kurganinsk and Rostov in August 2000 and in Novo-Sin'kovo in January 2001 taught by Aleksandr Avrorin. He built his house, from an American-style concrete-block, passive-solar design, with the help of Colorado writer Doug Walker. He is prepared to help Andrei Syrovoi host workshops in Rostov.
Biointensive for Russia
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913 Oso Road
Ojai, CA 93023 U.S.A.
(805) 640-1897 cvesecky@igc.org
http://biointensiveforrussia.igc.org Home | History | Events | Newsletters | Photos | Related Links | Join Us