People of labor: Veteran of the rear of the Second World War, who worked for more than 19 years as a veterinarian of the association "Tatzveroprom»
"Veterans of the Great Patriotic War". How much respect, love, courage, and courage there is in this phrase. How much it means to all of us. Each person has different feelings when pronouncing this phrase. Veterans are the greatest people who managed to survive and win a terrible war. Both the participants of the Great Patriotic War, and the home front workers-they all did a lot for our people. They gave us the opportunity to live in a peaceful state. If not them, we probably wouldn't be here.
On the eve of the 76th anniversary of the Victory in our section "People of Labor", we continue telling about agricultural workers who participated in the Great Patriotic War. Today, the hero of our column is Anatoly Andreevich Dragunov, who worked for 19 years as the chief veterinarian of the Tatzveroprom association.
He was born on February 1, 1928 in the village of Saltykovo, Penza Region, in a peasant family.
"Our large village was engaged in agriculture, growing sugar beet. Near the village, 8 km away, there was a sugar factory. We carried beets on our shoulders, and in wheelchairs, and using any transport to the sugar factory. Each resident of the village was given an outfit that's how much you need to process sugar beets, monitor, take care of, and clean. That's what we lived for, " he recalls.
They kept a cow in the family. When his father was taken to the army, he was a 12-year-old boy, together with his uncle, they went to the forest and harvested hay for a cow.
"There was a cow, we had milk. When the beet grew, my mother cut the tops, poured milk together with water - this is what we ate, " says Anatoly Andreevich.
I went to the 9th grade, but I didn't finish it, it was in 1946. In the spring, I dropped out and entered the Kirsanovsky Technical School.
"Despite the fact that I did not finish the 9th grade, I passed three exams and I was still accepted. I was well prepared. I studied for half a year and was transferred to the 2nd year. I graduated from the technical school with honors, received a red diploma and was sent to the Voronezh Institute. But I liked it better in Kazan, I applied, and then was transferred to Kazan, " the veteran says.
After graduating from the Kazan Veterinary Institute in 1953, he was sent to the Kama Forestry Enterprise of the Yulduz district. He worked there for three years, and came to Kazan. He wanted to get settled, but there were no places, but he was not at a loss. By invitation, he went to work as the chief doctor of the state farm "Udarnik" of the Voronezh region.
"The state farm was diversified: there were more than 100 cattle and pigs. Pigs were raised one to one, fed a special diet, and taken to the Mikoyan meat processing plant in Moscow. They were slaughtered there, sent to England in the summer."
He worked there, got married.
"I was once summoned to the district committee by the chairman of a collective farm in the district, but I did not agree. They let me go back. So I returned to Kazan.” He settled down, worked for 19 years as the chief veterinarian of the Animal Industry.
During his entire career, he was the head of the republican veterinary station and the Kirov regional station. He is grateful that fate has brought him back to Kazan. He received a lot in science, wrote a pamphlet "The use of medicines in animal husbandry" and became the author of his own poems.
Anatoly Dragunov has a number of state awards - Honored Worker of Animal Husbandry of the Russian Federation and Honored Veterinarian of the Republic of Tatarstan. For his achievements in the development of animal husbandry and animal husbandry, he was awarded 6 medals of the VDNH of the USSR.