Oleg Aleksandrovich Sirota (born December 7, 1987 , the village of Putilkovo in the Krasnogorsk district of the Moscow Region ) is a Russian farmer - a cheese producer , a blogger . Founder of the project "Russian Parmesan". Member of the Public Chamber of the Moscow Region [1] . Chairman of the Union of Russian Cheesemakers [2] . He was awarded the Russian National Business Success Award (Russia, 2017) [3] .
| Oleg Sirota | |
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| Oleg Alexandrovich Orphan | |
| Date of Birth | December 7, 1987 ( 31) |
| Place of Birth | Putilkovo village, Krasnogorsk district, Moscow region |
| Citizenship |  USSR →  Russia |
| Occupation | cheese farmer blogger |
| Spouse | Pelagia |
| Children | four |
| Awards and prizes | National Business Success Award |
| Site | parmezan.ru |
 External Images | |
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 | The cover of Oleg Sirota’s book, The Diary of a Cheese Chef. |
Cheeses made by Oleg Sirota, for the first time in Russian practice, won two bronze medals at the XIV international competition “Käsiade” (Austria, 2018) [4] .
Content
Biography
Education, the beginning of work
Born on December 7, 1987 in the village of Putilkovo, Krasnogorsk District, Moscow Region.
In 2004, he graduated from the Ulyanovsk High School in the village of Putilkovo, Krasnogorsk District, Moscow Region.
Since 2002, an active participant in search expeditions, a member of the search team "Victory" ( Moscow ). He was engaged in the search and burial of missing soldiers during World War II and the creation of museums of military glory. He was awarded the badges of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "For active search."
In 2004 he entered the zoo engineering faculty of the Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University ( Balashikha ). After the third year he left school, "so that he would devote more time to work."
2004 - work at SUNC in the smelter.
In 2005 he worked as a system administrator, programmer .
Since 2014 (after the introduction of the Russian response to Western sanctions), he began to engage in farming [1] .
Cheese farmer
In 2015, in the village of Dubrovskoye in the Istra district of the Moscow region, he built and put into operation a cheese factory [1] [5] .
In November 2018, at the XIV international competition “Käsiade”, which takes place every two years under the auspices of the Austrian Association of Cheese and Dairy Producers, the Istrinsky and Festival cheeses produced at the Oleg Sirota cheese dairy received two bronze medals . The competition was held between 500 contestants from 11 countries: Switzerland , France , Austria , Norway , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Germany , Spain , Slovenia , Croatia , Sweden [4] [6] .
Moscow region.
Austria 2018 year.
Oleg Sirota’s business success was repeatedly covered by the Russian [7] [8] [9] and foreign media [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] .
Community Activities
- Oleg Sirota is the main organizer of the annual Russian cheese festival “Import Substitution. ... of the year (in order - ed.) To the sanctions, ”which began to take place in 2016.
- The organizer of the Cheese Days at the festival "Golden Autumn" in Moscow (since 2016).
- Member of the Public Chamber of the Moscow Region (since 2016) [1] .
- Head of the Commission on Economics, Entrepreneurship, Development of Agriculture and Rural Territories of the Public Chamber of the Moscow Region (since 2018).
- Chairman of the Union of Russian Cheesemakers (since 2018).
- Member of the development of the program of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation on import substitution in the production of equipment for hard cheeses (2017).
- Member of the development of the program of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Moscow Region on the development of cheese production (2017) [15] [1] [16] [17] [2] .
- Expert of the Valdai Discussion Club [18] .
Awards and Prizes
- The National Business Success Award, in the nomination Best Agricultural Project (Russia, 2017) [19] .
- Official thanks from the Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov “for their contribution to the development of the milk processing and cheese production sectors” (2017 and 2018).
- Letter of thanks from President of Russia Vladimir Putin for participating and preparing for the election of the President of Russia in 2018 .
- Two bronze medals at the XIV international competition “Käsiade” (Austria, 2018) [1] .
Printed Works
Periodicals
- He maintains the author's heading “Cheesemaker's Diary” in the newspaper “ Komsomolskaya Pravda ” [20] .
Book Author
- Orphan Oleg . Cheesemaker's diary. - M.: Publishing. AST. - 288 p. - ISBN 978-5-17-105710-7 (circulation of 3000 copies.)
Family
Married: wife - Pelagia, four children [3] .
Father-in-law - German Sterligov [8] .
Interesting Facts
- Oleg Sirota is the owner of the famous goat Merkel [21] .
- During the 2018 World Cup, Oleg Sirota was a supplier of cheese for the French team [22] .
In the literature
- Oleg Sirota is one of the central characters created by Vasily Kupriyanov in August 2017 of the literary work “Goat Merkel” in the genre of ironic prose. Its plot is a description of the "family history" of the goat Merkel and the goat Timur .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Information on the website of the Public Chamber of the Moscow Region
- ↑ 1 2 Ignatenko Irina . The Chairman of the Union of Russian Cheesemakers named the top 5 of the most delicious cheeses near Moscow // Evening Moscow , 11/12/2018
- ↑ 1 2 Ovchinnikov Alexey . Oleg Orphan cheese factory was recognized as "The Best Agricultural Project of the Year" // " Komsomolskaya Pravda ", 01/24/2017
- ↑ 1 2 Denisov Anton . Vorobyov congratulated the cheese maker, who was trying to convey cheese to Putin // RIA Novosti , 12.11.2018
- ↑ Article “Russian farmer Oleg Sirota - about startups, cheese making and the benefits of the embargo for the development of a domestic product” on the website “Cont.ws” , 09/18/2017
- ↑ Editorial article "Russian cheese won medals in Europe for the first time" in the journal "RK" on the site "RosKontrol" , 11/13/2018
- ↑ Rybnikova Irina . Cheese worth its weight in gold // Rossiyskaya Gazeta , 08/10/2017
- ↑ 1 2 Report "Cheese Olympiad medalist Oleg Sirota told how he changed his fate" NTV channel , 12/08/2018
- ↑ Maksimovskikh Anastasia, Stepanova Svetlana . Cheese Oleg Sirota near Moscow took two medals in Austria // article on the website of the 360 ° channel , 11/11/2018
- ↑ Andrew Roth . Please pass the Russian Parmesan: Cheesemakers celebrate sanctions, and hope they continue // The Washington Post , 10/11/2016
- ↑ Tom Parfitt . Russians find whey around sanctions by copying cheese // The Times , 03/06/2018
- ↑ Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber . The stomach prevails: France wins at World Cup on Russian cheese // Reuters , 06/26/2018
- ↑ Lucian Kim . In Russia, A Dairy Owner Dreams Of Delivering Cheese To Vladimir Putin // National Public Radio , 11/22/2018
- ↑ Russian War On Cheese Made This Guy's Dreams Come True // National Geographic
- ↑ Rybnikova Irina . Faithful cheese of the Fatherland // Rossiyskaya Gazeta , 08/08/2017
- ↑ Editorial article “Cheese festival took place in the Moscow Region” on the site // “The DairyNews” , 08/07/2018
- ↑ Editorial article "Valdai 2018". Oleg Sirota: In 5-6 years, Russian cheese makers will enter the European market ”Runews24.ru news agency , 10/17/2018
- ↑ Information on the website of the Valdai International Discussion Club
- ↑ Ovchinnikov Alexey . Oleg Orphan cheese factory was recognized as "The Best Agricultural Project of the Year" // " Komsomolskaya Pravda ", 01/24/2017
- ↑ Page on the website of the newspaper “ Komsomolskaya Pravda ”
- ↑ Zhurman Olga . In Primorye, the goat Merkel gave birth to the goat Timur heir // Rossiyskaya Gazeta , 02/08/2017
- ↑ Ovchinnikov Alexey . “How I became a supplier of cheeses to the French national football team” // Komsomolskaya Pravda , June 8, 2018
Links
- Oleg Orphan's page on the website of the Public Chamber of the Moscow Region
- Page on the website of the newspaper " Komsomolskaya Pravda "
- Page on the site on the radio station " Echo of Moscow "
- Facebook Page
- LiveJournal Page