Draft:Aleksandr Gitalov

Aleksandr Vasilyevich Gitalov (Russian: Александр Васи́льевич Гиталов; 27 May [O.S. 14 May ] 1915 – 17 March 1994) was a Soviet politician and soviet innovator of collective farm production, twice Hero of the Socialist Labour.

Aleksandr Gitalov
Александр Гиталов
Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
In office
1949–1989
Personal details
Born27 May 1915
Elisavetgrad uezd, Kherson Governorate , Russian Empire
Died17 March 1994
Novouzensky District, Kirovograd Oblast, Ukraine
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1948–1989)
SpouseAntonina Gitalova
ChildrenAnatoly, Vasily, Vera
ParentVasily Gitalov (father) Maria Gitalova (mother)
OccupationFarmer, writer, politician
AwardsHero of Socialist Labour Hero of Socialist Labour
Central institution membership

Biography

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Gitalov was born in 27 May [O.S. 14 May] 1915, in the village of Tatarovka, Elisavetgrad uezd, Kherson province, Russian empire. He lived a poor peasant family. His father, Vasily Gitalov, fight in the civil war, was wounded in the war and soon died of typhus.

He began his career at a Kamyshevatoye collective farm in 1929. In 1934, he graduated from a tractor driving courses. In 1936, he was a foreman of the tractor brigade of Malopomoshnyanskaya MTS in Novoukrainsky raion. After the dissolution of the MTS in 1958, in the same position at the collective farm.

He joined the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War. After the war, he continued to work as a foreman at Malopomoshnyanskaya MTS. In 1947, he received an average of 22.4 centners of rye per hectare on an area of 165 hectares[1]. He was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labour and an Order of Lenin.

Party Career

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In 1948, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was a member of the Soviet Peace Committee, also he was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine since 1956. In 1954, he was then appointed a deputy of the Soviet of Nationalities.[2] He was awarded again the Hero of the Socialist Labour in 1958 for his success in the development of agriculture.

Death

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He retired in 1989 and moved to his hometown in Ukraine SSR before the Dissolution of the Soviet Union. He died in 17 March 1994[3] from natural causes at the age of 78 years old, he was buried in a new cemetery in his native village.

Awards

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   Hero of Socialist Labour, twice (16 February 1948 & 26 February 1958)
  Order of Lenin, three times (16 February 1948, 8 December 1973 & 24 May 1985)
  Order of the October Revolution
  USSR State Prize (1975)
  Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree (11 March 1985)
  Order of Friendship of Peoples (26 May 1975)
  Order of the Red Banner of Labour

References

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  1. ^ Decree “On awarding the title of Hero of Socialist Labor to the leading agricultural workers of the Ukrainian SSR” dated February 16, 1948
  2. ^ "Список депутатов Верховного Совета СССР 11 созыва". Archived from the original on 2013-04-28. Retrieved 2015-03-08.
  3. ^ Some sources stated he died in 21 March 1994