Faculty of Animal Science is one of the oldest faculties of the University. Its history goes back to 1865 when the animal husbandry section was established as a structural unit of the Agricultural Division of Petrovskaya Agriculture and Forestry Academy. As a Faculty it was separated in 1934 only and was named Zoo-Technical Faculty until 1976.

The Faculty was created on October 9, 1922 as part of the Division of Economics of the former Petrovskaya Academy per resolution of the Board of Chief Administration of professional education.  Professor A.V.Chayanov deserves greatly the credit for establishing and organizing the Faculty, and developing the economic science. At his suggestion the Division of Economics was open in 1920, and Faculty of Economics and the Scientific and Research Institute of Economics and Policy in Agriculture was established in 1922.

The Faculty of Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science was open in 1929. In 1990 it was renamed into the Faculty of Soil Science, Agricultural Chemistry and Ecology. The Faculty provides training in two specialties and with qualification of an agronomist:

Education Faculty was organized in 1925 on the basis of higher pedagogical courses and for a long time it was considered an agro-pedagogical division of the Academy. Until 1997 the Faculty provided advanced training for lecturers of agricultural institutions of higher education.