Order-bearing peasants

Order-bearing peasants. Home Front workers

Collective farmers were also very rarely awarded orders and medals of the USSR. Since the late 1940s in the USSR, collective farmers began to receive a large number of state awards. The first award that many peasants were awarded was the medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941−1945" (established on June 6, 1945). In the Tyumen region alone, more than 90 thousand people were awarded it. In 1969, a jubilee medal was added to this medal in honor of the 100th anniversary of V.I. Lenin.

On March 29, 1947, the party and the government decided to radically increase labor productivity in agriculture, harvests and milk yields with the help of moral order. Rural leaders decided to massively award the USSR’s highest labor award — the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.

Peasants were also awarded orders. 41 people were awarded orders in the Tyumen region. Some became medal-bearers twice, for example, brigadier D. Borovushki Pyotr Leontievich Maslov was awarded two orders (in 1966 — the Order of the Badge of Honor, in 1973 — the Order of Lenin). Maria Ivanovna Mezentseva, a milkmaid at the Pobeda collective farm in the Yurginsky district of the Tyumen Region, became a full holder of the Orders of Labor Glory.

One of the last awards of the USSR was the medal "Veteran of Labor", established in 1974 to reward workers for long-term conscientious work in the national economy <…> when they reach retirement age and retire on well-deserved rest in recognition of labor merits.

Goltsov Vasily Spiridonovich

(1900-1961)

He was born on March 13, 1900 in the village of Churtan, Ishim district, Tobolsk province (now Vikulovsky district, Tyumen region) in the family of a peasant farmhand, a migrant from Central Russia. He received primary education.

From 1920 to 1922, Vasily Spiridonovich served in military service in the Red Army. After demobilization, he returned to his native village, worked on his own farm. Vasily Spiridonovich was well versed in blacksmithing and carpentry, invented a winnowing machine of his design, improved types of agricultural implements, including a special plow for plowing wetlands, which preserved a thin layer of fertile soil. In 1929 Goltsov joined the collective farm "Krasny Plowman". In 1931, due to the availability of machinery in his household, he was dispossessed. At the request of his fellow villagers, he was not expelled or even expelled from the collective farm. Subsequently, the decision to dekulakize was found to be incorrect.

Shortly after the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, on September 14, 1941, Vasily Goltsov was drafted into the Red Army by the Vikulovsky district military enlistment office of the Omsk region. He fought in the 1224th Infantry regiment of the 368th Infantry Division of the 7th Separate Army, participated in defensive and offensive operations in Karelia. In 1942, he was demobilized from the Red Army due to disability.

After demobilization, Vasily Spiridonovich returned to the village of Churtan, continued to work on the collective farm. In 1944, he was elected chairman of the M. V. Frunze collective farm and remained so until the end of his life. He achieved outstanding results at the head of the farm. In 1947, the collective farm received a high yield — the average for the collective farm was 14.1 quintals of grain per hectare (in previous years this figure was 9 quintals per hectare), and in some fields — 30.89 quintals per hectare on an area of 42.5 hectares.

For outstanding success in fulfilling plans for the supply of agricultural products to the state and high grain yields, Goltsov Vasily Spiridonovich was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Hammer and Sickle gold medal (decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated March 18, 1948).

In the future, the Frunze collective farm under the leadership of Vasily Spiridonovich invariably remained advanced, In 1950, he became the first millionaire collective farm in the region. Along with the development of grain crops, animal husbandry was actively developing on the collective farm.

He died on February 22, 1961 in the hospital from severe burns received as a result of an accident. He was buried in the village of Churtan.

In 2006, a street named after Vasily Goltsov appeared in Tyumen.

Mezentseva Maria Ivanovna

She was born on February 15, 1939 in the village of Nekrasovo, now in the Yurginsky district of the Tyumen region, in a peasant family. Maria’s father died at the front in 1942. From an early age, she helped her mother run the household. She graduated from 7th grade in the village of Shipakovo, continued her studies at secondary school in the village of Yurginsky, but did not graduate.

When she returned home, she came to work at the collective farm as an accountant for a dairy farm. She did not work in this position for long, followed in her mother’s footsteps and joined the milkmaids on farms, first Nekrasovskaya, then Shipakovskaya. She worked as a milkmaid for about 40 years. Over time, manual labor was replaced by machine milking. Serving 50 cows, she achieved high results, milking up to 3.5 tons of milk from one cow. She became one of the best workers in the district.

By decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated February 14, 1975 and March 13, 1981, Maria Ivanovna was awarded the Orders of Labor Glory of the 3rd and 2nd degrees.

By decree of the President of the USSR dated October 29, 1990, for achieving high results in increasing production based on the use of technology and advanced methods of labor organization, she was awarded the Order of Labor Glory of the 1st degree. He was elected a deputy of the district Council of People’s Deputies, a member of the district committee of the CPSU.

Prokopiev Polikarp Petrovich

(1922 – 1996)

He was born on March 17, 1922 in the village of Starye Madiki in Chuvashia in a peasant family. Three years later, the family moved to Nizhny Tavda in the Tyumen region. I have worked hard since childhood. In 1942, the young man was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. He participated in the liberation of Orel, Minsk, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. Then some of them were transferred to the Far East. He remained in the border guard service until 1950. Then he worked for four years in the state security agencies. In May 1954 by the decision of the Tyumen bureau of the regional Committee of the CPSU, at the party call, among the "thirty thousand people" Polikarp Petrovich was sent to work in the Nizhnetavdinsky district as chairman of the collective farm named after him. Dzerzhinsky (Novo-Troitsk). In 1959 Prokopyev became a student of the Agronomy faculty of the Agricultural Institute. In February 1963, a fourth-year student of the agricultural Institute, Polycarp Prokopiev, was elected chairman of the enlarged collective farm "Bolshevik".

For more than 25 years, Polycarp Prokopyev headed the collective farm, which over the years has become an advanced farm. Here, for the first time in Siberia, the Kuban wheat harvest was received — more than 50 quintals per hectare. Polycarp Petrovich carried out work on improving varieties, discovered new agricultural opportunities in the Northern Trans-Urals, developed technologies for the development of swampy lands and grain cultivation in the zone of risky agriculture.

Polikarp Petrovich Prokopiev was awarded the Orders of the Red Banner, the Red Star, the "Patriotic War I degree", the medal "For Bravery". He was awarded the title of "Hero of Socialist Labor".

In 2003, rural workers of the region established the Tyumen Regional Charitable Foundation named after P. P. Prokopiev. One of the streets of the city of Tyumen is named in honor of Polycarp Prokopiev.