History of Science and Engineering Annotation << Back PROFESSOR BORISOV VALERY ALEXANDROVICH – OUTSTANDING AGRICULTURAL CHEMIST AND VEGETABLE GROWER O.N. Uspenskaya, R.A. Meshcheryakova V.A. Borisov, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and ANIRR, is the author of 335 scientific publications, including 14 books of monographs, 16 guidelines and recommendations. He developed a new theory of nutrition of vegetable plants and a set of agrotechnical and agrochemical methods to increase the yield of main crops in various regions of Russia to the level of 80–120 t / ha while maintaining high commercial and biochemical quality of products. V.A. Borisov – the creator of the scientific school of vegetable growers-agrochemists. He raised 21 candidates of agricultural sciences, who continue to work in various regions of the Russian Federation. Keywords: V.A. Borisov, vegetables, fertilizers, productivity, quality, fertility, crop rotation, ecology, nitrates, varieties, hybrids, keeping time. DOI: 10.25791/intstg.10.2020.1232 Pp. 136-139.