There is in the Tambov region, in the Zherdevsky district, the village of Novo-Rusanovo, on the lands of which there is now a powerful multi-branch farm of the collective farm named after M. I. Kalinin. The village appeared at the end of the XVIII century, when in the Tambov region, at the whim of Paul I, 300 peasant souls with 5 thousand dessiatines of land were transferred from the palace department to one major dignitary .1 The inhabitants of Novo-Rusanov were the first in the province to seize land from their landowner in June 1917, and in October they confiscated his property .2 In the middle of 1918, an agricultural school was organized in the former manor estate, which was later transformed into a state farm. Almost simultaneously, the Dacha agricultural artel was established in Novo-Rusanov, which adopted the commune's charter in 1922. Novo-Rusanovsk communards had to start their farm almost from scratch: there were not enough equipment, horses, and seeds. But the following year, the communards participated in the All-Union Agricultural and Handicraft Exhibition in Moscow, where their work was awarded diplomas and a tractor prize. By the end of the 1920s, the Dacha commune became the mainstay of collectivization in the Borisoglebsky district, and by the beginning of the 1930s it had become an exemplary farm. In 1930, on the eve of the completion of preparatory work for spring sowing, the chairman of the Central Election Commission of the USSR, M. I. Kalinin, made a trip to the provinces of the Central Chernozem Region. The Party and the Government attached great importance to the CCP as one of the main suppliers of agricultural products. Kalinin went there to get acquainted with the preparations for the spring sowing campaign, the course of collectivization, the life and activities of already existing and newly organized collective farms. In mid-February, he visited the Endovitsky and Podgorensky districts of the Usmansky district, then the Talovsky and Rusa ... Читать далее