INSTITUTE AT A STATE FARM
99.2%THE SOVIET FARMER today with his multiple machine hookups working thousands of unfenced acres is a technological age removed from the pre-carrier peasant laboring on his tiny plot of land. With manual labor giving way to the machine in field, orchard and dairy, farming calls for increasingly more brain and less brawn.
99.5%Farm institutes, many of them with branches located directly on large farms to make them easily accessible and to provide the closest possible tie-up between theory and practice, provide advanced schooling in all agricultural specialties. One of the several branches of the Kuban Agricultural Institute of Krasnodar is at the Kuban State Farm. The requirements for admission are the same as for the parent institute—completion of secondary school and passing the entrance examination.
100.0%The branch now has five departments—agronomy, fruit and vegetable, zoo veterinary, financial-economic and engineering. The student body of one hundred comes from the Kuban State Farm and other state and collective farms in the vicinity. Who are these students? The large majority are young people—working tractor mechanics, dairymaids, gardeners and truck farmers—with an admixture of older people who, for one reason or another, did not get advanced schooling earlier.
99.9%Mikhail Yevdokov is one of the students in this latter category. In 1953 he graduated from a farm secondary school and took a job as zootechnician at the Lenin Collective Farm.
100.0%The farm grew and merged with others in the neighborhood. Yevdokov felt that his background wasn't good enough to keep pace with the fast growing stock division of the farm, and so he enrolled for advanced veterinary study. Pyotr Tatarinov is another one of the older students. He was recently demobilized from the Soviet Army with the rank of major and now works as a team leader at the Kropotkin fruit and berry state farm.
100.0%Galina Zhidkova is typical of the young students. She was born and raised on the Kuban State Farm and graduated from the village secondary school. She works in the vineyard and is taking advanced courses at the same time.
100.0%The students do their assignments at home but gather once a month for lectures, laboratory demonstrations and conferences at the Kuban State Farm with instructors from the parent institute at Krasnodar.
100.0%Classes are held at the farm-community's club, and the local secondary school provides laboratory facilities. Instruction is free and students are given time off with pay from their farm jobs to prepare for final exams.
100.0%The objective of large-scale socialist operation is to make the most rational and productive use of the land, to get maximum returns with the least expenditure of labor power and with the lowest production costs. This needs people with thorough training in the theory and practice of scientific farming, the kind of people who are being trained by the Agricultural Institute of Krasnodar at the Kuban State Farm.
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One of the several branches of the Agricultural Institute of Krasnodar is located directly on the large Kuban State Farm to make advanced training easily accessible.
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32.7%Present farmer and future engineer Ivan Yelnikov works out a problem for his instructor.
98.7%Raya Drozdova is the farm's switchboard operator. She's an institute student, too.
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Galina Zhidkova, one of the younger students, works in the vineyard.
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Tractor operator Alexander Somov and plumber Nikolai Salkov doing an assignment with help from instructor Vasili Baklanov.
99.3%Pyotr Tatarinov, an ex-army major, is finishing his second year at the institute.
99.8%Institute Professor Mamtkon Pogosbekov with a few of his Kuban Farm students.
92.5%Students react about the same to exams, no matter what their age is. These not so young ones are just as nervous as grade school children.
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