Article tells about life and outcast work of the deserved tractor operator of DKSP of Chapayev Dmitry Ivanovicha Vakulenko.
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Only the people working from a dawn till late evening in the field, know the price to bread and can endure destiny vyseyanny in the field of grain as own, to rejoice to the amicable shoots, being poured ears, and then, without cease, to work in a harvest harvest season.
Here so from year to year, living life of every crop, for 44 years grudilsya in collective farm of a name of Chapayev of the Belogorsky area (nowadays DKSP of Chapayev) Dmitry Ivanovich Vakulenko.
He was born in 1937, on the same earth in a large family of the collective farmer. Since the early childhood Dmitry learned all burdens of rural work, helping parents, and from 16 years went to work with a pritsepshchik in a tractor and field brigade. Then, after the termination of four-months courses of machine operators at Belogorsky MTS, worked in collective farm to service in army as the tractor operator.
Service passed in the Moscow military district. Upon termination of it, in 1959 returned to Chernopolye’s native village. In a tractor brigade there was no free tractor, it was necessary to work as the cattleman on MTF.
But in a year sat down on a tractor. Business demanded the best knowledge, and in 1960 Dmitry finishes agricultural professional school in Belogorska, receives qualification of the tractor operator-driver of a wide profile. Then worked at the tractors DT-54, YuMZ-6. At the desire of the management of collective farm it was necessary to Dmitry Ivanovichu to work and the manager of a cattle-breeding complex on whom contained not only cattle, but also horses, sheep, a bird and even bees, and still was also the manager of workshops. But the field pulled, and it again sat down on a tractor.
In 1977 headed a tractor and field brigade. On what a site not trudilsyadmitry Ivanovich, treated business very honestly. The homeland highly appreciated its work. having awarded it awards Honour Sign and the Labour Red Banner. medals. Its portrait repeatedly flaunted on a regional Honour roll.
After a retirement the veteran as the tractor operator prior to the beginning of reforming of agricultural industry continued to work. Now Dmitry Ivanovich on the deserved rest.
Together wife Valentina Vladimirovna Vakulenko grew up two sons who also live in the native village. Four grandsons and the great-granddaughter please now the grandfather with the grandmother. The head of the family is engaged in a house farmstead and grandsons now, but doesn’t cease to worry about a native economy. Now DKSP of a name of Chapayev are headed by his younger brother Mikhail, and the father always tries to help the son a good advice.
And now in a circle of the family Dmitry Ivanovich celebrates the 70-year anniversary. It would be desirable to wish to this person of a good health deeply respected by fellows villager, unfading cheerfulness, to live long and happily on pleasure to children, grandsons, great-grandsons and all native.
A.Polyushkina, adviser-organizer of Belogorsky UKO.