In Moscow, for several years he also delivered lectures at the Courses for the improvement of professional skill at the Central Board of Hydrometeorological Service, USSR Council of Ministers.
[2] From 1963, Davitaia continued educational work at Tbilisi State University, directing a large number of postgraduates who successfully developed his ideas in their research.
[4] Feofan Davitaia was born on 15 September 1911 in the mountainous village of Eki, Tskhakaia district, Georgia, where he went to elementary school.
[3] By 1950 Davitaia summed up his research in his monograph "Study of the Climates of the Vine in the USSR and the Bases of their Practical Use", which he defended brilliantly as a doctoral thesis In agricultural sciences.
[3] In 1964-1965 Davitaia worked at the Academy of Sciences of Cuba directing a group of Soviet consulting scientists engaged in a study of the country’s natural resources.
[5] As a result of processing the materials of long-term meteorological observations Davitaia wrote a scientific monograph, "Climatic Resources of Cuba", which was published (jointly with I. I. Trusov) in Spanish (Havana, 1965).
To mark this important event in the scientific life of the Republic of Cuba, in 1965 the Cuban Academy of Sciences conferred on Davitaia the title of cofounder of the Institute of Geography in Havana, presenting him with a diploma.
[7] In 1967-1968, at the invitation of the University of Wisconsin, Davitaia delivered a course of lectures on contemporary problems of climatology and agrometeorology for the postgraduates and professors of the Department of Geography.
[3] The numerous articles and papers contributed by Davitaia to newspapers and popular magazines reflected the achievements of Soviet agrometeorology and geography, making this evidence available to broad sections of the public.