Voroshilova, Zinaida Ivanovna

She was born on March 5, 1924 in the working village of Verkhny Ufaley, Sverdlovsk District, Ural Region of the RSFSR of the USSR (now a city of regional significance of the Chelyabinsk Region of the Russian Federation ) in the family of teachers Ivan Vasilyevich and Evdokia Vasilyevna Kotelnikov. Russian . In 1930, the Kotelnikov family moved to the city of Nadezhdinsk ^[1] . Zinaida Ivanovna studied at school number 23. She graduated from the ninth grade when the Great Patriotic War began . Since July 1, 1941, Zinaida Kotelnikova worked as a turner apprentice, then as a turner at the military factory number 76 ^[2] , turned out shells for the front. After the war ended, in October 1945, she entered the Irbit Agricultural College, received a specialty in livestock technology. Since November 20, 1947, Zinaida Ivanovna worked in the specialty in the Serov district agricultural department, and two years later she was sent to the village of Sosva, Serov district , where she worked as a veterinarian in the district veterinary clinic. In 1954, she returned to Serov and in December was accepted to the post of livestock specialist at the Serov hatchery station.

In 1963, the government of the Sverdlovsk region decided to establish a Serov poultry farm in the village of Vyatchino ^[3] on the basis of the collapsed collective farm "Red Urals". In September 1963, he was appointed director of a still non-existent enterprise.V.V. Goltsev invited Z. I. Voroshilova, one of the leading specialists of the region, to the position of livestock specialist. The Serov poultry farm, which began work in November 1963, began with a dilapidated poultry house, dilapidated and poorly adapted for the poultry industry buildings of a horse yard, a covered van, which housed the company’s office, and 7 thousand laying hens, but thanks to the enthusiasm of the team by the beginning of 70- of the 20th century became one of the best poultry farms of the Ptitseprom trust, capable of meeting the growing needs of the Northern Urals for eggs and chicken meat. Already in the year following the opening of the poultry farm, the company received an average of 120 eggs from each laying hen, with a similar indicator for the district of 110 eggs. It is no coincidence that the Serov poultry farm has become an experimental platform for introducing at the industry enterprises of the Urals the best practices of Soviet poultry farming and new technology. First of all, Serov poultry farmers abandoned the outdated outdoor method of keeping birds and switched to the cellular method. In October 1966, Z. I. Voroshilova headed the main workshop of the enterprise - the cell-laying plant. Under her leadership, the workshop was completely renovated. The processes of distributing feed, collecting eggs, watering birds and harvesting cages were fully mechanized. Seven large-sized cage houses were installed in the workshop, which allowed increasing the number of laying hens to 170 thousand. If earlier one poultry house served 2 thousand hens, then after the reconstruction of the workshop this figure was 12-15 thousand hens per poultry.

The next stage in the modernization of production was the struggle for the productivity of birds. With the direct participation of Z. I. Voroshilova and the chief livestock specialist of the enterprise K.S. Marshunina gradually replaced the Russian white breed chickens with white leggorns , which made it possible to get at least 240 eggs from each laying hen. Voroshilova’s workshop was one of the first in the Ptitseprom trust to switch to dry feeding of poultry, which allowed to significantly reduce production costs, and therefore the cost of production.

The measures carried out at the Serov Poultry Farm were not slow to affect the performance of the enterprise as a whole and the main cell laying plant in particular. If at the beginning of the 8th Five-Year Plan the Serov poultry breeders produced 3 million 822 thousand eggs and 60 tons of chicken meat per year, then by the end of the production indicators reached 36 million eggs and 370 tons of chicken meat. The state plan of the 8th five-year plan was completed ahead of schedule by the collective of the poultry farm. In 1971, Zinaida Ivanovna was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor for outstanding success in completing the tasks of the 8th five-year plan, the head of the cell laying hens of the Serov poultry farm Voroshilova Zinaida Ivanovna.

Zinaida Ivanovna, as the head of the workshop, continued to work fruitfully until 1983. Under her leadership, the workshop team continued to be the best poultry team of the Ptitseprom trust. Many poultry houses of the workshop were awarded high government awards and more than once demonstrated their success at VDNH . On August 1, 1983, Z. I. Voroshilova retired. She lived in the village of Poultry Farm (the former village of Vyatchino). She died on May 20, 2005. She was buried in the city of Serov.

• Hammer and Sickle Medal (1971)
• Order of Lenin (1971)

• Dzyubinsky L.I. Heroes of the city of Serov. - Serov, 2010 .-- S. 291-302. - 414 p.