2 and No. 3. B. Z. Dvorkin became the first rector of the united university in April 1998 (he died in 2003). In May 2003, Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov was elected Rector of the University. On 19 March 2021, Dmitry Aleksandrovich Solovyov was appointed to the position of rector. On 22 June 2022, the Academic Council unanimously supported the university’s transformation program and decided to petition the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation to rename the university into “Saratov State University of Genetics, Biotechnology and Engineering named after N.I. Vavilov". On 8 July 2022, the name was approved. Faculties Faculty of Agronomy Faculty of Agroengineering and Environmental Engineering Faculty of Economy and Management Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Food and Biotechnology Institute of distance learning and further education References External links , (in Russian) Saratov State Agrarian University, (in English) Universities in Volga Region Agricultural universities and colleges in Russia Buildings and structures in Saratov Education in Saratov