Markin, Efim Fedoseevich

Efim Fedoseevich was born on March 30, 1917 in the village of Moluki, Smolensk province (now the Pochinkovsky district of the Smolensk region ) into a peasant family in which there were seven children. In the household there was a horse, a cow, a piglet, sheep, plowed by a plow, cleaned with a sickle. In the 1930s, the family joined the collective farm. Yefim graduated from elementary school in three classes in a neighboring village ^{[1] [2]} .

In April 1932, he went to his older sister in the city of Stalin, Stalin Region of the Ukrainian SSR (now Donetsk , Ukraine ), where he worked as a postman at the main post office for a year. Returning to his native village, in January 1934 he again went to another sister in the city of Konstantinovka, Stalin Region (now Donetsk Region , Ukraine ), where he worked as a weightmaker, then a tram fleet dispatcher. In September 1936 - July 1937 he studied and graduated from the faculty of metallurgy. In July 1937 he entered the Dnepropetrovsk Agricultural Institute , and in the evenings he unloaded barges. Since March 1941, he was sent to practical training on a collective farm 200 kilometers from Dnepropetrovsk. With the outbreak of World War II , in July 1941 he was called up to the institute and drafted into the Red Army. For two months he participated in the defense of Dnepropetrovsk , then in the defense of Kharkov . In July 1942 he was wounded, evacuated to the city of Namangan , the Uzbek SSR , where he worked for six months as a senior livestock specialist of the Tyur-Kurgan District Land Department. In July 1942, after a cure, he returned to the army, to the rear units, to the city of Chelyabinsk , where he married. In March 1945 he was demobilized and went to his wife's relatives in the city of Sverdlovsk , where he got a job as a senior livestock specialist at the Office of Workers Supply of Uralmashzavod . In 1947 he graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk Agricultural Institute in absentia. In May 1950, he became a senior livestock specialist at the Ordzhonikidzevsky state farm, and in June 1954, he became the deputy director of the state farm; since December 1957, he became the director of the state farm. In 1962 he defended his thesis on "The dairy herd of the Ordzhonikidze state farm, methods of its creation and improvement." In February 1988, he moved to a senior specialist, and since December, a leading specialist in the Ordzhonikidzevsky state farm (now CJSC Teplichnoe). In April 1991 he retired ^[1] .

He was a member of the CPSU since October 1954, a member of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU , the Ordzhonikidze District Committee of the CPSU of the city of Sverdlovsk, a deputy of the Sverdlovsk City Council of Workers 'Deputies, a deputy of the Ordzhonikedzevsky District Council of Workers' Deputies, and the author of inventions (a pallet for greenhouses of 1969 in collaboration with M.V. Zarzhevsky, factory line bull black-motley breed in 1985, co-authored) ^[1] .

Efim Fedoseevich died on September 28, 2014 and was buried in the Northern cemetery of the city of Yekaterinburg ^[1] .

In 2008, by the Decree of the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region, the EF Markin Prize "The Best Livestock Technician of the Sverdlovsk Region" was established ^[1] .

For his achievements he was awarded ^[1] :

• 1956 - the title of Honored Livestock Specialist of the RSFSR ;
• 03/08/1958 - Order of the Red Banner of Labor ;
• 04/08/1971 - Order of the Badge of Honor ;
• Order of Lenin ;
• 12/11/1973 - the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the Gold Medal Sickle and Hammer and the Order of Lenin "for the great successes achieved in the All-Union socialist competition and the manifested labor prowess in fulfilling the obligations undertaken to increase the production and sale of grain and other agricultural products to the state";
• 03/13/1981 - Order of Friendship of Peoples ;
• 03/11/1985 - Order of the Patriotic War II degree ;
• 08/29/1986 - Order of the October Revolution ;
• Gold medal VDNH ;
• Silver medal VDNH .

• Markin E.F. Uralsky black-motley cattle, 1973
• Markin E.F. Dairy complex of a state farm, 1974