On March 6 of this year, the staff of the B.Mailin Museum of Local Lore organized a photo-documentary exhibition entitled “History in the Frame”, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Taranovsky-Maysky State Farm.
The Taranovsky poultry farm was established in 1946 on the basis of orders from the People’s Commissariat of Grain and Livestock Farms and the Kostanay Grain Trust on the basis of a branch of the Aman-Karagai meat farm. It was the first large specialized poultry farm in Kazakhstan, focused on the production of poultry meat and eggs. Semyon Samuilovich Likokhmacher became the first director of the state farm.
In the early years, the farm experienced significant difficulties: there was no mechanization, housing and production facilities, most of the work was done manually. Despite this, the collective farm gradually developed poultry farming and accumulated experience in poultry breeding in northern Kazakhstan.
A new stage of development began in 1963, when Lee Yong-beom was appointed director. Under his leadership, the farm was reorganized and transferred to an industrial production basis. New production facilities, residential buildings, a school, a cultural center, a kindergarten and other social institutions were built. The state farm specialized in egg production, modern poultry farming technologies and mechanization of production processes were introduced.
