Smirnova, Nina Appolinarievna

She was born on September 3, 1927 in the village of Likhachevo, Kostroma district, Kostroma province (now Sudislavsky district of the Kostroma region ) in a peasant family. Russian. A few years later the family moved to the village of Karavaevo , where parents began to work on the collective farm.

Mother - Taisiya Alekseevna Smirnova , in the future Hero of Socialist Labor - worked as a calf, one of the first in the history of livestock raising calves in unheated rooms according to the method developed by S. I. Shteyman . Nina began to take care of calves in her school years, when she went to the circle of young naturalists. Then she was entrusted with the care of two calves. In 1940, at the age of 13, an active young woman was approved as a participant in the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition and was awarded a ticket to Artek . During the war, after the end of the seven-year plan, in 1942 she already brought up 35 calves.

In 1948, a team led by I.P. Situshkin , in which N. A. Smirnova worked, received an average daily gain of 936 grams of calves. She herself, from 40 goals of young animals over 6 months of age, received 892 grams of daily gain on average per head.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR of July 12, 1949 , for obtaining high livestock productivity in 1948, when the state farm fulfilled the plan of delivering livestock and field products to the state and fulfilling the state plan for the development of livestock for all types of livestock, Nina Appolinariaevna Smirnova was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the order Lenin and the gold medal " Hammer and Sickle " ^[2] .

In subsequent years, it received the same high results in the average daily gain of young animals over 6 months of age. In 1949, from 51 heads of young animals - 1035 grams per head, in 1950 from 64 goals - 928 grams each, in 1951 from 54 heads - 912 grams each.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 4, 1953, for the high productivity of animal husbandry in the next three years after being awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor, Nina Smolinova was awarded the second gold medal "Hammer and Sickle" ^[3] . She became twice a Hero of Socialist Labor .

N. A. Smirnova worked for about 20 years at the Karavaevo state farm in a special team for growing young animals according to the Steiman method. During his work, not allowing a single case of death, he managed to raise more than a thousand heads of pedigree youngsters, more than once representing his state farm in Moscow and abroad, passing on to others his unique experience.

In 1963, for health reasons, she was forced to leave the work of the calf. Until 1966, she worked as a castellant of the hostel of the Kostroma Agricultural Institute Karavaevo . Then she was transferred to the post of senior laboratory assistant at the Department of Farm Animal Breeding and Genetics, where she worked until her retirement in 1984.

She lived in the village of Karavaevo. Died December 15, 2007 at the 81st year of life. She was buried in the cemetery of the village of Poddubnoye near the village of Karavaevo.

• Twice Hero of Socialist Labor :
  • 07/12. 1949 - for high rates in animal husbandry,
  • 03.03. 1953 - for high rates in animal husbandry.
• three orders of Lenin
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• medals " For Valiant Labor ", " For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. " other.

In 1963, a bronze bust of the heroine was installed on the square of the central estate of the state farm ^[4] .

• Smirnova, Nina Appolinarievna (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• Archive of the materials of the newspaper Trud for July - September 2000
• Article on the day of March 8, 1953
• Photo by N. A. Smirnova (inaccessible link)
• Kostroma constellation. Yaroslavl, 1975