Miss Tatarstan every year helps her father to harvest
Leyla Minacheva, a recent finalist of the Miss Tatarstan contest, helps her father harvest bread every year at the Alga collective farm in Alexeevsky district.
Since 2011, while still a schoolgirl, the girl helped her father, Irek Galiullovich, in harvesting as an assistant to the combine operator. She used to wake up at 5 o'clock in the morning, lubricate the combine, pour water into the radiator, rivet segments on the cutting knife of the header.
She believes that the work of a combine operator is respected and highly appreciated. “Very often motivational competitions are held, grants are issued every year, meetings of labor leaders are organized,” she says.
“The salary of the combine operator's assistant is calculated depending on the volume of the harvested grain. When I was a student, this money was enough to pay tuition for a whole year. And now the money is not superfluous, ” Leila says.
The girl could have helped her mother, Fanie Sagetdinovna, who works as a milkmaid, and that would be logical. But now the field and the combine have been lured away.
“Some people think since I took part in the Miss Tatarstan contest, it means that the little girl has only manicure and pedicure on her mind, and I don’t know how to do anything else,” says Leila. “But this is not true. The work of an assistant combine operator includes wrenches, heavy parts, fuel, and a 14-15-hours working day. "
Leila lives in Kazan, works as an advertising manager on the Efir TV channel, and got married last year. Now the beauty asked to go to her native village of Srednie Tigany. And her husband let her go - he felt how the grain-growing soul of his wife was toiling.
- No luck, - Leila laments. - I took a leave of absence for two weeks, and because of the rains the harvesters stood for a week - it was impossible to enter the field. So it only worked for one week. How would my father manage without me?
According to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Tatarstan, as of September 6, Irek Valiullin, Leyla's father, threshed 16,500 centners of grain on his 19-year-old Don-1500 harvester and took second place in the labor rivalry of combine workers of the Alga collective farm. Ravil Kiyamov is in the lead with the Akros harvester. All combine operators and farm drivers speak warmly of Leila Minacheva-Valiullina - a true grain grower.