Leonid Mikhailovich Kartauzov ( March 16, 1933 , Leningrad , RSFSR, USSR) - collective farmer, Hero of Socialist Labor (1972). Member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 9th Convocation.
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| Date of Birth | March 16, 1933 | ||||
| Place of Birth | Leningrad | ||||
| Date of death | November 17, 2016 (83 years old) | ||||
| Place of death | Astana | ||||
| Citizenship |  the USSR | ||||
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Biography
Born in 1933 in Leningrad. From 1941 to 1943 he participated in the partisan movement in the Kalinin region near the city of Rzhev . He was the son of a regiment of the 185th Infantry Division of the 3rd Baltic Front . During the battle near Tartu, he was seriously injured, after which he lost his legs. After the war, he was brought up in an orphanage in Yeysk . After graduating from a vocational school from 1951 to 1955 he worked in Leningrad, then moved to Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR. Being in Kaunas, I decided to go to the virgin lands. In 1955, on a Komsomol trip, he moved to the Kazakh SSR, where he got a job at the Tchaikovsky state farm in the Zhitikarinsky district of the Kustanai region . He worked on a collective farm as a shoemaker, a loader later after completing the courses as a tractor driver. Since August 1956, he independently worked on a tractor. In 1959 he joined the Communist Party. Since 1965, he worked as a mechanic for the collective farm named after Rodina in the Tselinograd district of the Tselinograd region .
Being without legs, he worked on one tractor for 10 years. Over the two-ninth five-year period, he completed the four-year plan, plowing more than 4,000 hectares. In 1972 he was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor "for the great successes achieved in increasing the production and sale to the state of grain, sugar beets, cotton, other agricultural products, and the manifested labor prowess in harvesting" [1] .
He was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Council of the USSR of the 9th convocation. He was a delegate to the XVII Congress of the Komsomol.
Memory
- The following works are devoted to Leonid Kartauzov:
- book by V. Gundarev “What color is the field” (1976)
- the book of V. Onishchenko “The guy from the first echelon” (M., 1978);
- the poem of N. Urazov “The guy from the virgin lands” (Alma-Ata, 1978).
- The documentary film "Man on Earth" was shot about Leonid Kartauzov.
Rewards
- Hero of Socialist Labor by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of December 13, 1972.
- Order of Lenin (1972);
- Medal "For the development of virgin lands . "
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Literature
- Kazakh SSR. Kyshasha Encyclopedia, 2-vol. Almaty - 1987.
- Leonid Mikhailovich Kartauzov, Kostanay virgin soil in faces // Bibliographic collection, p. 16 - 17