Petrenko Artem Anisimovich

Petrenko Artem Anisimovich was born in 1899 in Belyaevka village, Belyaevskaya parish, Odessa district of the Kherson province.

Before the collectivization of agriculture, he worked for hire (as a farmhand).

He participated in the Civil War on the side of the Red Army.

In 1929, he joined the Molotov agricultural cartel, from 1931 he worked as a deputy chairman, and in 1937 he was elected chairman of the board of the artel.

Under the leadership of A. A. Petrenko, the agricultural cartel grew into a diversified and highly profitable farm, which during the Great Patriotic War strictly fulfilled the plan for the supply of agricultural products, for which the chairman was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1942 and the Patriotic War II degree.

After the war, according to the results of the socialist competition, the collective farm became the best in the district, one of the first in the region, it began to receive millions of dollars in income, and by 1953 it was a leader both in animal husbandry and collected the best grain harvests in the Kostanay region.

After the war, according to the results of the socialist competition, the collective farm became the best in the district, one of the first in the region. It began to receive millions of dollars in income, and by 1953 it was a leader both in animal husbandry and collected the best grain harvests in the Kostanay region.

In 1954-1955, the Molotov collective farm mastered 13455 hectares of virgin land, and the following year it collected 20.8 quintals per hectare from the entire area of sowing.

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 11, 1957, Petrenko Artem Anisimovich was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and the gold medal «Hammer and Sickle» for particularly outstanding achievements achieved in the development of virgin and fallow lands, and obtaining a high harvest.

In the same 1957, the collective farm «Dawn of Communism» participated in the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition.

1. A. Petrenko was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR and the Taranovsky District Council of Workers ‘ Deputies, a member of the Kostanay Regional Party Committee and a delegate to the VI Congress of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan.

In 1959, he retired, but continued to actively participate in the life of the party organization of the state farm «Novo-Ilyinsky», created on the basis of the collective farm «Dawn of Communism».

He was awarded 2 Orders of Lenin (11.5.1942, 11.01.1957) and the Order of the Patriotic War of the II degree (16.11.1945), medals, as well as Large  and  Small gold medals of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1957).