Vasily Yakovlevich Shestakov ( 1900 , Turkestan Territory , Russian Empire - date and place of death unknown) - collective farmer, the Victory link collective farm, Hero of Socialist Labor (1948).
| Vasily Yakovlevich Shestakov | ||||||
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| Date of Birth | 1900 | |||||
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| Citizenship |  the USSR | |||||
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Biography
In 1930, he joined the Victory collective farm in the Tulkubassky district of the South Kazakhstan region . He worked as an ordinary collective farmer. In 1936 he was appointed a field link manager. He participated in the Great Patriotic War. After demobilization, he returned to his native collective farm, in which he continued to work as a link. In 1957 he was appointed deputy chairman of the collective farm.
In 1947, a field link under the leadership of Vasily Shestakov collected 33 centners of grain from a 31.5 hectare site. For this he was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor in 1948.
Participated in the All-Union Exhibition of VDNH.
Rewards
- Hero of Socialist Labor - by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of March 28, 1948;
- Order of Lenin (1948);
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor ;
- Big gold and three small silver medals of VDNH.
Literature
- Heroes of Socialist Labor in the field farming of the Kazakh SSR. Alma-Ata. 1950.412 p.
- Kazakh SSR. Kyshasha Encyclopedia, 2-vol. Almaty - 1987.