Academician Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, President of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences who was awarded a Stalin Prize for his scientific research in the field of advanced Michurin biological science speaking at a session of the academy, August 1948. Also pictured (right to left) are Academician Yakushkin, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Pavel Lobanov, and Vice-president of the Academy Vassili Mosolov.