To the 40th anniversary of the Great Victory In October 1942, members of the collective farm "Struggle for the Commune" in the village of Salaryevo, Kuntsevsky district, Moscow Region, at a general meeting adopted a resolution to buy a tank with their own personal funds and " maintain its crew until the end of the war." Salaryevtsy appealed to the collective farmers of the district to organize a fundraiser for the construction of the tank column "Kuntsevsky Kolkhoznik", and they themselves decided to deduct 5 rubles for the construction of the tank (in the then calculation) from the workday, which amounted to 165 thousand rubles. After the meeting, A. Komova, secretary of the Komsomol organization of the collective farm, A. V. Makarychev, and M. L. Dvorkind, chairman of the collective farm, were the first to make their personal savings .1 The idea of Salaryev residents found a wide response in the district. In the Mnevnikovsky collective farm named after him. Chkalov decided to contribute 315 thousand rubles to the construction of tanks 2 . By November 26, the collective farmers of the Kuntsevo district had already paid 2.2 million rubles to the State Bank for the construction of a tank column .3 At the same time, a fundraiser for tanks was launched by collective farmers of the Leninsky district of the Moscow Region, who competed with Kuntsevsky. Komsomol members of the collective farm "Path to socialism" der. On November 11, 1942, Zyablikovo decided: "In order to provide practical assistance to the front, the collective farm should start collecting funds for the construction of the Leninsky Kolkhoznik tank column. Their initiative was supported by other collective farmers of the Leninsky district. At the general meeting in the collective farm "Ilyich's Way" der. On November 13, the collective farmer K. E. Grankina offered to contribute 200 thousand rubles to the tank column at the expense of the collective farm and all collective farmers. She stated: "We will spare ... Читать далее