Kvochko Andrey Nikolaevich – Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of Physiology, Surgery and Obstetrics of the FSBEI HE «Stavropol State Agrarian University».

Kvochko A.N. was born on August 4, 1967 in the village of Vegetables of the Turkmen district of the Stavropol Region.

In 1991 he graduated with honors from the Veterinary Faculty of the Stavropol Order of the Red Banner of Labor of the Agricultural Institute.

From 1991 to 1994, he studied in full-time postgraduate studies at the Department of Physiology and Surgery of the Stavropol State Agricultural Academy. In 1994 defended his candidate dissertation on «Physiological and genetic aspects of urolithiasis in merino sheep».

From 1993 to 1994 he worked as an assistant at the Department of Physiology and Surgery of the Stavropol State Agricultural Academy.

From 1994 to 1998 he worked as an assistant at the Department of Physiology and Surgery of Stavropol State Agrarian University.

From 1998 to 2003 he worked as an associate professor of the Department of Physiology and Surgery of Stavropol State Agrarian University.

In 2002 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic «Dynamics of morphofunctional parameters of the urinary system and parenchymal organs of merino sheep in normal and urolithiasis».

In March 2003, he was transferred to the position of professor of the Department of Physiology and Surgery of Stavropol State Agrarian University.

From April to June 2003, he was Acting Head of the Department of Physiology and Surgery of Stavropol State Agrarian University.

From June 2003 to August 2010, he was the head of the Department of Physiology and Surgery of Stavropol State Agrarian University.

In 2006, he was awarded the academic title of professor at the Department of Physiology and Surgery.

Since August 2010, he has been the Head of the Department of Physiology, Surgery and Obstetrics of Stavropol State Agrarian University.

Kvochko A.N. is the head of the scientific school «Physiology» and the scientific direction «Surgical pathology of animals», which includes leading scientists, graduate students and applicants.

Andrey Nikolaevich is the Head of the research topic «The study of biological processes and the influence of anthropogenic and natural environmental factors on morphofunctional indicators of domestic animals and birds».

The results of scientific research by A.N. Kvochko, carried out jointly with students, have been introduced into the educational process and research work of 23 higher educational institutions and research institutes of the Russian Federation, and have also found application in the practical activities of veterinary specialists of the south of the Russian Federation.

As part of the author's teams, he was the executor of the State Contract № 12.P20.11.0009 dated 30.08.2011 for the performance of works (provision of services) for state needs, concluded with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation based on the results of an open competition of the Federal Target Program for the Development of Education for 2011 – 2015 «Modernization of the system of primary vocational and secondary vocational education to train specialists in the field of agriculture on the basis of the sectoral interregional resource center».
He was a co-executor of State contracts for the performance of works (provision of services) for state needs concluded with the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy of the Russian Federation on the development of professional standards «Veterinary doctor», «Veterinary paramedic» and «Operator for artificial insemination of animals and birds».

With the participation of Kvochko A.N., by order of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation in 2014, together with the Institute of Gene Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the All-Russian Research Institute of Sheep Breeding and Goat Breeding and the Stavropol Anti-Plague Institute, a grant was implemented «Development of biotechnological methods of genomic selection in the creation of new breeds and types of highly productive animals (sheep)».

Kvochko A.N. has been an organizer and participant of many international conferences devoted to higher education and scientific research in the field of morphology, physiology, general pathology and veterinary surgery.

Andrey Nikolaevich is: an expert of the Russian Academy of Sciences; member of the Expert Council for Zootechnical and Veterinary Sciences of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (from 2014 to 2022); member of the dissertation councils D 220.062.02 and D 999.210.02 at Stavropol State Agrarian University and 24.2.297.04 at Don State Technical University for the defense of doctoral and candidate dissertations; member of the Academic Council Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Stavropol State University; member of the editorial board of the journals «Izvestia of the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy», «International Bulletin of Veterinary Medicine», «Veterinary Pathology», «Izvestia of the Orenburg State Agrarian University», «Bulletin of Krasnoyarsk Agrarian University», included in the list of leading peer-reviewed scientific journals approved by the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and recommended for publication of the main scientific results of the dissertation for scientists degrees; member of the All-Russian Physiological Society named after I.P. Pavlov, the All-Russian Society of Anatomists, Histologists and Embryologists and the All-Russian Society of Veterinary Pathologists; member of the expert Commission for the North Caucasus Federal District and the Russian Federation for the best scientific student work in the nomination «Veterinary» and the nominations «Veterinary Sciences» and «Biological Sciences» for graduate students and young scientists (2010 – 2019); member the jury of the program «YMNIK – 2020 and 2021» in the direction № 2 «Medicine and health-saving technologies».