Famous people of Kobrin district

I interrogated on the street, by phone about one hundred people of different age familiar and unfamiliar to me. The question was set about the people living now and living in the past in our city or who were born here, memory of whom lives in the minds and hearts interrogated.

Having analysed collected material the list I begin.

– The senior and average generation of citizens asks on the first place among the known kobrinchan to put the Catholic Belarusian, the paramedic Stepuro Witold Adamovich (1885-1981), the doctor from God who treated more than seventy years not one generation kobrinchan. He lived opposite to hospital in which the surgeon Grigoriev practiced. It was the small city hospital. And the doctor treated and at home, and in hospital, even in the German hospital. Treated the civilian population, treated guerrillas, treated sick invaders. It always was at work. Did not appoint a payment for services. From the poor tried not to take money. Treated also folk remedies, made diagnoses, even disproving medicine stars. It had no children, and he in war adopted the girl whose mother died in guerrillas. And when in the 80th the Polish movie "Sorcerer" almost appeared all to the kobrinchena saw in it the doctor Stepuro. God gave it long life, and people – are even longer memory of his good deeds.

– All villagers interrogated by me and citizens of advanced age, from heads of agricultural production urged to remember Gutsev Anatoly Emelyanovich (1935-1996), the former chairman of collective farm "Dawn" of Kobrin district. The native of Gomelshchina, after the termination of agricultural academy on distribution got to our regions. Already in the 60th all started talking about the chairman from "Dawn". It was the personality unusual. Shook hands with it both Masherov, and Shevelukh. But it outstripped the time and suffered for economic risk which was repaid. But years were for this purpose necessary. He the first in area carried out gas to the village. It the first gave to farmers electricity, and agreed to move to the village – electricity and gas. It the first in the republic began to build pig factory farm on 24 thousand heads of sagination. He constructed club of which in collective farm are proud and now. It drained bogs, entering new lands into a crop rotation. People did by the rich, and itself had one suit.

And in 1978 he was judged. Year he sat under a consequence, month in Kobrin judicial proceedings lasted. About 200 witnesses were interrogated (4 of them opposed Gutsev). Accused him of a rastranzhirivaniye and inappropriate use of collective-farm funds for total amount of 150 thousand rubles. Neither two lawyers, nor the friend is the 3rd secretary of the Central Committee of Belarus of Shevelukh, nor the chairman of regional executive committee Matyushevsky could not help out this person – 4 years of a high security. It had a sin before party: paid contributions, and here in the party membership card did not note, and the ticket it was held in hand by Masherov and once sharply spoke to the local secretary of a district committee Starovoytov and if it is honest, then he especially did not see advantage in party.

Here also revenged (it according to the wife Nina Yakovlevna). Business even came BSSR to the Supreme Court. But alas! Though is not present, the damage decreased to 10 thousand. And when after release Gutsev asked the next congress of CPSU to restore it in party, the local secretary of a Communist Party organization of collective farm Zoya Vladimirovna in the characteristic wrote: "It is morally unstable".

And ruined not only the person, and the Personality. Speak, died in poverty and loneliness and in others house. And time in agricultural showed that the way begun in collective farm "Dawn" by Gutsev was correct. From respondents today nobody remembered officials favourites neither from the power, nor from party nor those times, nor today's. And when I led – smiled, waved a hand … And Gutsev is remembered here.

– Are proud to the kobrinchena of the graduate of school No. of the 2, first gold medallist from the village Demchuk Mikhaml Ivanovich – (1947), the former deputy prime minister of RB who was the rector of polytechnical academy.
Mikhail Ivanovich helped and helps schools of the city and area for what to it gratitude. And that in the government the fellow countryman – are proud.

It is absolutely inconsistent who it is very good who on the contrary, but quite often remember to the kobrinchena among Kuchinsky Victor Frantsevich (1958) people, the Assistant to the President of RB, famous in the area, on special instructions, triple (since 1990) the deputy of national assembly of RB. He was born in Gomelshchina, but (he the military) began service of us. Already then he gained the diploma of the historian and lawyer. And being the deputy, helped and helps both people, and the city. But all cannot be helped, even being in power. However school in Bukhovichakh, Victor Frantsevich, is time to complete.

– Almost all respondents me women told that a half of the population of the city and area is obliged by the health to the gynecologist Leonyuk Leonid Ivanovich (1948). The modest person, the beautiful family man, from the first day of the work permanent, by the way, very attractive externally, he rescued not only women, but also their children, and their family. Unfortunately, today he is incurably sick.

– Villagers asked not to forget to mark out two more chairmen of the collective farms which are nowadays well: Korenchuk Pavel Grigoryevich (1924) and Kuzich Vladimir Grigoryevich (1940). Both of them are order bearers. Collective farms under their management front lines. People live there more richly than others. They do not change shots, unless only for increase. Both life, and leisure in their collective farms at the level. And wives at them the most beautiful, and children the best. And at all changes of the power they at height.

– Kind words people of middle age remember the Yugoslav Nastasich Milan Georgiyevich (1923-1999) who long time lived in Minsk, and here at the beginning of the 60th the destiny abandoned (literally this word) him in Kobrin. Something he did not cope with Bross Tito and arrived in the Union. And here did not refuse to it (and there sentenced to death). He served as the commander of an aviaregiment in Kobrin. Here married, children were born here. The city then was under construction, and it under the responsibility (having coordinated, of course, with the top officials of the area), office helicopters helped to transfer volume building materials.

Once (somewhere in the 70th) at transfer of a beam hooked on an electric wire – an outcome lethal. Nastasich was degraded, but not judged. Transferred to a staff, to Minsk. It for a long time on pension. But in Kobrin there were friends. And people remember also it, and its kind acts, remember and today.

– The senior generation remembers also the fighting pilot Zamorin Ivan Aleksandrovich (1918-1998), the native of Gomelshchina, but after war serving in Kobrin. The fighting pilot flew once with Nikita Khrushchev's son Leonid. François Mitterrand (in 1985) handed him the highest award of France. It is buried in Kobrin.

– The honourable tenth place in our list is taken by the woman – Sidoruk Praskoviya Semenovna (1909-2001), the native of the village of Ilovsk, Kobrin of the area. From the simple illiterate peasant, having passed through the Polish prisons as political concluded, she ended the highest partshkola and worked as the 3rd secretary of a local district committee of party, and then the deputy chairman of district executive committee. For inhabitants made much, time is still remembered.

Shag newspaper, November, 2001.

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