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Hero of Socialist Labor Gold Star #2609
A.S. Gavrilov at the field camp
Awarded to Alexander Sergeevich Gavrilov (Александр Сергеевич Гаврилов)
By Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 13, 1950, for obtaining a high yield of Central Russian hemp fiber and seeds in 1949, Gavrilov Alexander Sergeyevich was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the gold medal “Hammer and Sickle”
Made of solid 23 carat gold. It measures 32.84 mm in height including the eyelet, 31.35 mm in width and weighs 16.3 grams without its suspension. The text Герой Социалистического Труда (Hero of Socialist Labor) is located at the center of the reverse. The suspension is authentic to the star and measures 26.19 mm in width at his widest point and 20.99 mm in height at its narrowest point. The minimum know serial number of this variation is 1099 and the maximum is 9978.
In excellent, above average condition with light overall wear and crisp details on even the raised areas and lettering. Both sides show few dings and scratches only and the tips of the star are still sharp. Its suspension is fully authentic and contains all original parts, including its Monetnij Dvor nut. Its connection ring between the suspension and the medal has not been cut and its screw has not been shortened.
His biography:
Gavrilov Aleksandr Sergeevich is a foreman of the tractor brigade of the Atyashevskaya MTS of the Mordovian ASSR.
He was born on November 18, 1913 in the village of Butyrki (now the village of Vecherley, Atyashevsky District, Republic of Mordovia) into a family of farmers.
After receiving primary education, he began his career in 1925 on his farm.
After graduating from the village collective farm, he worked as a groom, and after completing a four-month course for tractor drivers, he worked as a tractor driver at the Atyashevskaya machine and tractor station (MTS) in 1932. In the mid-1930s, he brought the first combine harvester to the collective farm from Saratov and worked on it, and in 1936 he headed the tractor brigade.
During the Great Patriotic War, the brigade headed by A.S. Gavrilov worked hard to grow grain in the fields of the Lenin collective farm in the village of Batashovo. In the autumn of 1946, on his initiative, 40 hectares of marshy land were plowed up and sown with hemp.
In 1949, the A.S. Gavrilov brigade exceeded the tractor work plan by 124 percent, the output for each 15-horsepower tractor was 607 hectares with a plan of 500 hectares. The serviced collective farm “13 Years of October” received a yield of 7.5 centners of Central Russian hemp fiber and 9.3 centners of seeds per hectare on an area of 30.9 hectares.
By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 13, 1950, for obtaining a high yield of Central Russian hemp fiber and seeds in 1949, Gavrilov Alexander Sergeyevich was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the gold medal “Hammer and Sickle”.
In 1950, his team produced 770 hectares per 15-horsepower tractor instead of the planned 625 hectares.
A.S. Gavrilov was a participant in the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (VSHV).
In 1957, due to health reasons, he transferred to work as an engineer at the Atyashevskaya MTS, later as a mechanic at the Lenin collective farm in the Atyashevsky district until his retirement in 1963.
In 1964, he graduated from an agricultural technical school and worked for 15 years as a shift foreman, then as a toolmaker at the Atyashevsky Avtozapchast plant.
He died on June 29, 1994 and was buried in the village of Atyashevo.
He was awarded the Order of Lenin (13.01.1950) and medals.
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