KOLKHOZ I/N BUDENNOGO, VILLAGE OF CHERNYAKHOV

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• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2013
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: February 10, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY
SUBJECT
USSR
Kolkhoz 1 i
Chernyakho,,,
DATE OF INFORMATION
PLACE ACOUI D
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INFORMATION
REPORT
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DATE DISTR. 10 Yob. 1964
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1. Until 1949 there were flve independent kolkhozy in the village of
Chernyakhov 5 50-01, E 30-471, Kagarlytskly Rayon, Kiev Oblast:
- ?Pobedal Veroshiloya, BudPand-go,lrasnaya_ivezAALI and Sheychenko.
In 1949 the kolkhozy Poboda, VoroshilOva, and Budennogo were merged
into one kolkhoz, which wa3 named Kolkhoz Budennogo. At the same
time kolkhozy Krasnaya ZveAa and Shevchenko were merged into one
kolkhoz called Shevehenko, Ttls consolidation was a result of the
general policy which caned for the expansion of kolkhozy and creation
of agricultural cities (a.-Foro0a).
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- s .ennogo a approximately 3,000
nectares of arable land. all of which was black mold (chernozem).
There were approximate"; 60 hoosPholds with 2,500 members belonging
to the kolkhoz. Of this number approximately 1,500 were considered
able-bodied members of the kolkhoz. The rest (approximately 1,000)
were children under 0 7-r7. or 2.gP and old people (men above 60 and
women above 55 years of age) according to the law, could not be
forced to work on the koikhoz.
3. At the bead of the liolkhc)z there was a chairman (predsedatel'),
Gavrila Mikhaylovich KlfHCH, a member of long standing. During
World War II KUSHCH was a fant-P.tr in the Soviet Army. The kolkhoz
chairman was always seleotd by the responsible rayon executive
committee of the Communist Party (RayIspolKom) and then put on the
ballot by kolkhoz members_ However, this formality was often omitted.
The appointment of RayIsplicom was considered quite sufficient. The
kolkhoz administrative per-rinrP1 consisted of:
a. Deputy chairman (.wilosttel, nredsedatelya)
b. Two agronomists cagronom
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c. One zoo technician (zootekhnik)
d. Several accountants (bukhgalter)
e. Three record clerks (uchetchik), one per brigade
4. Three working brigades 'i-ra organized in the kolkhoz. Their strengths
were as follows:
a. First Brigade: 2H-t-) heust,,holds with approximately 950 members.
b. Second Brigade: ;V) ilc)1,-,-1-olds with approximately 900 members.
c. Third Brigade: 6' 1, ,Iso,( is with approximately 600 members.
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Each brigade had one brigadier, one deputy brigadier, and one agri-
cultural technician -,,y)levcd) jr charge of field work and harvesting.
5. There was also an animal husbandry farm belonging to the kolkhoz. It
had the following livestoek:
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a. 150 horses
b. Approximately 90 cows
C. 700 pigs
d. 500 sheep
e. Several hundred chickens, duks. and geese
A farm chief (ZavFerm) was in charge of the farm; approximately 50
men worked under him. Horses were used for field work in addition t
tractors and other agricultural machinery. Cows were solely for
milking; the milk was used for state deliveries and partly for the
kolkhoz.nursery.ispaere slaughtered in accordance with state
meat delivery requirements.;
Wool was
chickens, and other poultry.
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delivered to the state as well as eggs,
6. The principal grains raised on the kolkhoz were rye and wheat, for
which about 1,500 hectares of land were used every year. Wheat was
always partly winter and partly summer wheat. About 500 hectares were
used for raising barley and oats. Sugar beet production was another
important task of the kolkhoz, and approximately 600 hectares were
used for this purpose. The rest of the agricultural land was used for
raising corn, buckwheat, potatoes, and for vegetable gardens.
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Tractors and agricultural machinery for work were received from MTS
Myrovka, located approximately 12 km. from Chernyakbov. This MTS
had some diesel tractors of Oae following types: S-80; KhTZ (Kharkov
Tractor Plant); Universal tractors (small wheel-type tractors); NATIK
KhTZ-7 (small tractor
of agricultural machinery: several self-propelled combines,
the followin kinds
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loi WOLK 111 VC6CUCLUItJ MIO mylovita LlaU
; quite a number of towed combines; harvesting mac nes
01. tne M.-11W (?) type; several sugar beet harvesters; 50)0
Maintenance of MTS machinery
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was rather poor, and quite a number of tractors and agricultural 50:0
machines were constantly under repair. no information on the
amount or manner of payments made by the oz to the MTS for the
50:00 use of MTS machinery, the kolkhoz paid every tractor
operdtor two kilograms of wheat per work day (trudoden9 plus some
money.
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9 Kolkhoz i/h Budennogo had a small motor pool consisting of several
trucks: ZIS-5; GAZ-151 of 24-, tons (?) and GAZ 11 ton trucks. When
more trucks were needed, a request was sent to the Kagarlyk rayon
administration which wouldh
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10. All work at the kolkhoz was accounted for and expressed iii work days.
The prescribed minimum for a woman Was 120 work days; for a man 250
work days. These minimums, however, were almost always exceeded, and
normally a woman averaged about 200 work days yearly, while a man
averaged from 300 to 500 work days yearly.
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oz pro uc s an partly in money.
These payments varied, according to the yield, from 500 to 700 g. of
grain per work day. Only once, in 1950, were 1,000 g. of grain paid
per work day. The money payment varied in a like way and on the average"
amounted to 0.5 rubles per work day. Practically speaking, however,
this money was never actually paid out but was retained by the kolkhoz
administration for the state loan, taxes, etc.
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12. ,Each kolkhoz family had a_bousehold lot of either 0.6-or 0.3 hectares,
"depending-on-whether the family had entered the kolkhoz when it was
first organized or afterwards. A lot of 0.3 hectares was also given
to newly married kolkhoz members. The kolkhoz members raised grain,
potatoes, and vegetables on their lots. The majority of households
had one cow, one or two pigs, and a few chickens. Taxes_on_household
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on a household lot of 0.3 hectares, one cow, and two pigs:
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a. 150 kg. of potatoes
b. 27 kg. of grain (rye, wheat or barley)
c. 44 kg. of meat
d. 220 lit, of milk
e. 120 eggs (
to pay 120
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had 50
eggs annuaiiy to the tax authorities like everybody else.)
f. 250 rubles in money (The households which did not keep a cow paid
195 rubles
Instead of 250 rubles.)
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