Editing Trofim Lysenko (section)

==Early life and study==
The son of Denis Nikanorovich and Oksana Fominichna Lysenko, Trofim Lysenko was born into a peasant family of [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] ethnicity in the village of [[Karlivka|Karlovka]], [[Poltava Governorate]] (present-day [[Poltava Oblast]], [[Ukraine]]) on 29 September 1898.<ref name="Warheroes"/><ref name="Voinov">{{cite web | title=Lysenko | website=ihst.ru | date=2007-03-08 | url=http://www.ihst.ru/projects/sohist/books/lysenko.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010052609/http://www.ihst.ru/projects/sohist/books/lysenko.pdf | archive-date=2007-10-10 | url-status=dead | access-date=2024-05-11}}</ref> The family later welcomed two sons and a daughter.<ref name="Soifer"/>

Lysenko learned to read and write only at the age of 13.<ref>{{cite web | title= «The Lysenko effect: undermining the autonomy of science | website=lysvav.narod.ru | date=2014-02-03 | url=http://lysvav.narod.ru/Files/Roll-Hansen.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927094550/http://lysvav.narod.ru/Files/Roll-Hansen.pdf | archive-date=2013-09-27 | url-status=dead | access-date=2024-05-11}}</ref> In 1913, after graduating from a two-year rural school, he entered the lower school of horticulture in [[Poltava]]. In 1917, he entered and in 1921 he graduated from the secondary school of horticulture in [[Uman]] (now the {{ill|Uman National University of Horticulture|ru|Уманский национальный университет садоводства}}).<ref name="Voinov"/><ref>{{cite web | title=Лысенко Трофим Денисович | website=Биографии выдающихся личностей  | date=2015-09-23 | url=https://www.biografija.ru/biography/lysenko-trofim-denisovich.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080504001130/http://www.biografija.ru/show_bio.aspx?id=80025 | archive-date=2008-05-04 | url-status=live | language=ru | access-date=2024-05-11}}</ref>

Lysenko's period of study in Uman coincided with the [[First World War]] and the [[Russian Civil War]]: the city was captured by [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]] troops, then by the [[Central Rada|Central Ukrainian Rada]]. In February 1918, [[Soviet (council)|soviet]] power was proclaimed in Uman, after which until 1920 the city periodically passed into the hands of the [[Red Army|red]] and [[White Army|white]] armies.<ref name="Soifer"/>

In 1922, Lysenko entered the Kiev Agricultural Institute (now the [[National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine]]).<ref name="Soifer"/> During his studies, he worked at the [[Bila Tserkva|Belotserkovsk]] experimental station as a [[plant breeding|garden plant breeder]]. In 1923, he published his first scientific works: "Techniques and methods of tomato selection at the Belotserkovskaya selection station" and "Grafting of sugar beets."<ref name="Voinov"/> Lysenko graduated from the institute with a degree in agronomy in 1925.<ref name="Soifer"/>