Labor people: Milkmaid from Pestrechinsky district - an example of diligence and mentoring
Today, the heroine of our column “Labor People”, in which we write about ordinary people who have gained honor and respect through their work, is Galochkina Nadezhda Nikolaevna, who worked as a milkmaid in her native district for many years.
Nadezhda Nikolaevna was born on September 4, 1935 in the village of Arkatovo, Pestrechinsky District. After graduation, a 16-year-old girl crossed the threshold of a dairy farm in her native village and began to work hard. The team immediately noticed the diligence of the young worker. She loved animals, was very hard-working, everything was always clean, and the cows stood out for their well-groomed appearance.
Soon, she became the best milkmaid, not only in her collective farm Path to Communism, but also in Pestrechinsky district in general. From year to year the milk volume had been increasing. She willingly shared her experience. Nadezhda Nikolaevna was a mentor for young people by vocation. Young girls could share with her not only difficulties in work, but any secrets and doubts. And in each case, they got an advice.
In 1965 Nadezhda managed to get an average of 4045 kg of milk from each cow. In the same year, she took the initiative to participate in competitions for obtaining daily weight losses in the summer period, having achieved this result first. More than 40 milkmaids followed her example.
The year of 1966 is especially memorable in the life of Nadezhda Nikolaevna. This year, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for success in the development of agriculture, she was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin. In the same year she became a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
Until 1990, she had worked as a milkmaid on the farm of the Path to Communism collective farm, and until she retired she continued to work devotedly as a milkmaid, passing on the secrets of skill to the livestock producers of this farm.
Now Nadezhda Nikolaevna is no longer with us, but the good memory of her lives in the hearts of her fellow villagers, and her name is mentioned in the "Book of Heroes of Labor of the Tatarstan Agricultural Complex".