In 2017, the scientific community has celebrated the 130th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding breeder, Doctor of agricultural sciences, Professor Ivan Maksymovych Yeremeiev, the author of the masterpiece of the world selection – the winter wheat variety Ukrainka 0246, as well as 90 years since this international standard of grain quality has been regionized. Difficult Ivan M. Yeremeiev’s life with regard to history of creating the variety Ukrainka 0246, scientific and pedagogical activity is highlighted. After taking in 1909 his degree of “Higher Agronomic Sciences” of the Agronomical Institute at the Natural Sciences Faculty of the University of Nancy in France and the specialty of an agronomist engineer I. M. Yeremeiev worked in Paris, then in Serbia, and in 1916 returned to Ukraine. In 1917 he was appointed as specialist for breeding at the Myronivka Experimental Station. Since that time, winter wheat breeding at the Station was conducted under the Yeremeiev’s guidance. The unique winter wheat variety Ukrainka 0246 which occupied large areas and was recognized as the international standard for strong wheat has become the main his achievement. In 1939, I. M. Yeremeiev has received the author’s certificate for the winter wheat varierty Ukrainka with 50 % participation rate in its creation (other 50 % of the rights belong to V. Ye. Zoltkevych and L. I. Kovalevskyi). In 1930, I. M. Yeremeiev has got through arrest and provisional detention. During 1931–1933 he was the head of Breeding Department of the Ukrainian Research Institute of Sugar Industry in Kiev, and from 1934 until the occupation of the territory of the USSR by the German troops (1941) he worked near Leningrad (Pushkin town) at the Central Experimental Station of the All-Union Institute of Plant Industry (IPI) as Deputy Director on Scientific Research and head of the Wheat Breeding Department, later he headed the Leningrad Plant Breeding Station. In 1936, without defending his dissertation, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Agricultural Sciences and the academic title of full member of the IPI. During this period, under his leadership a number of varieties of cereals and groat crops were created. In 1941–1944, the I. M Yeremeiev’s labor activity was associated with the Severodvinsk State Plant Breeding Station. After the war the Yeremeievs have returned to Ukraine in the Bila Tserkva. The scientist-breeder I. M. Yeremeiev is also known as a talented pedagogue, the teacher of the “wheat breeding” course. In the 1920s, he lectured at the Maslivka Agricultural Technical School (Institute), after the war at the Bila Tserkva Agricultural Institute, later at the Uman Agricultural Institute. The scientist was buried in 1957 in Uman.