To the 50th anniversary of the Stakhanov movement On the night of August 30-31, 1935, the Donetsk slaughterer A. G. Stakhanov achieved a record labor productivity: in six hours of work, he extracted 102 tons of coal, exceeding the norm by 14 times. A few weeks later, a movement of innovators called the Stakhanov movement was launched across the country. It included thousands of workers who were distinguished by their active life position and conscientious attitude to work. One of Stakhanov's followers in the leather and shoe industry was N. S. Smetanin, a worker at the Leningrad Skorokhod factory. Nikolai Stepanovich Smetanin was born in 1905 in the family of a St. Petersburg stove maker. At the age of eight, he entered the city's primary school. Studying was easy for him. But soon the First World War began. Life was getting harder every day. His father's seasonal earnings were not enough to support a family of nine children. My mother began to sew "for the war". Nicholas had to interrupt his studies to earn a living. In 1916, he was assigned to the Petrov shoe factory as a "boy" for the summer holidays. He worked there for 10 hours. per day. In the winter of 1917, Nikolai returned to school, and in the summer of 1917, he went to work again, this time at the Dinali soap factory. After his father died in January 1918, Nikolai left school and joined Skorokhod as a student. Skorokhod was the largest shoe manufacturer in Russia. His team was distinguished by its high professional level and political maturity. Traditionally, the influence of the Bolsheviks was strong there .2 Smetanin's professional development and personal development began in this team. During the Civil War, he, along with other residents of St. Petersburg, dug trenches on the outskirts of the city, sewed shoes for the Red Army, and participated in communist subbotniks. And after the war, when the school of factory apprenticeship was opened at Skorokhod, Nikolai became one of the first Fabzai students, ... Читать далее