Shtykova, Elizaveta Ivanovna

She was born on October 28, 1907 in a peasant family in the village of Krasnoye, Palekh District, Ivanovo Region . Russian. The family had 10 children and a girl from an early age worked in the field, helped her parents.

In the 1920s, together with her husband, she was one of the first to enter the agricultural cartel, later the Bolshevik collective farm. At first she worked as a cowgirl on a farm, then she switched to calves. In the prewar years, she worked in the field, grew flax. At the end of 1941, she was elected chairman of the village council. All the war years remained at this troublesome post.

After the war, she began to work as a poultry house. In 1948, at the suggestion of her husband, the chairman of the Bolshevik collective farm, she switched to a sheep farm. She took a flock of sheep 70-80 goals. Then it was believed that sheep husbandry was not profitable in the conditions of the Central Russian strip and almost did not develop. Shtykova decided to refute this opinion.

First of all, I cleaned up the sheep: I rejected bad animals, cleaned up diseases from veterinarians, and replenished Romanov breed with good breeding sheep. I got from the board the construction of a new shepherd. To reduce the mortality of young animals, she developed her own method of hardening lambs - cold keeping - and soon created a wonderful herd. A republican school of excellence was opened on her farm.

In 1963, the collective farm already had a new arched-type electrified shepherd equipped with running water, a fodder kitchen, and a suspension road for feeding feed. 360 sheep were kept in the shepherd, and only two took care of them - Elizaveta Ivanovna and her husband Alexander Ivanovich, who, as a war invalid, were relieved of their duties as chairman. Lambs were brought up not usually: severely, in the cold, even in the maternity ward there was no stove. In that year, despite a protracted frosty winter, a few hundred lambs were obtained, on average from 100 queens 350 lambs.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 11, 1963, for her selfless work and achieving high performance over several years in raising Romanov sheep, Shtykova Elizaveta Ivanovna was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Medal "Hammer and Sickle."

Actively participated in public life. In different years, she was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, the regional executive committee, the presidium of the regional trade union committee, and the regional committee of the Komsomol. She was a delegate to the 22nd Party Congress, a member of the bureau of the CPSU regional committee.

She worked on her farm until retiring in 1967. In the early 1990s, she moved to her son in the regional center - the city of Ivanovo. She died on October 12, 1997. She was buried at the Bogorodsky cemetery in the city of Ivanovo.

She was awarded two Orders of Lenin, medals, including VDNH medals.

In the Ivanovo region for workers in agriculture, a prize was established to them. Bayonet.

Elizaveta Ivanovna Shtykova (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ". Date of treatment August 30, 2014.

• The standard bearers of the working land. Yaroslavl, 1987.