Peace Street / Gulsum Kdyrgalieva - Tales of Soviet Women Workers for Peace, 1951 #4

From the Soviet Press, 1951

Scientific worker Gulsum Kdyrgalieva of the Power Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic is studying data brought back by a field expedition. The institute is working on the problem of providing a water supply to the central districts of the republic.

PEACE STREET

Peace Street is the main street of the Socialist agricultural town now being built by the Budyonny Kolkhoz in the Ukraine. This broad, fine avenue may well be said to symbolize the cultured and well-to-do life of the kolkhoz countryside.

I clearly remember the golden autumn day last year when we opened Peace Street. The postman brought newspapers which carried the decisions of the Second World Peace Congress. Makar Posmitny, the chairman of our kolkhoz, addressed the population over the local radio, calling upon them to turn out for an open-air meeting on the square in front of our Palace of Culture. More than 700 people came, carrying red flags and streamers with the words: “Long Live Peace!”

In reply to the decisions of the World Peace Congress the collective farmers assumed new labour pledges.

All conditions for highly productive work have been created in our kolkhoz. We have planted shelter belts on an area of 49.5 hectares to safeguard the crops from scorching winds and made ponds and reservoirs. We are giving our country big harvests of grain, industrial crops, fruit and vegetables and tons of other foodstuffs.

Our agricultural town is rapidly growing.

I look at our beautiful Peace Street and envisage the future. No dark forces of reaction can prevent us from marching along the broad, straight streets of Peace to the radiant Communist future. - YEFROSINIA VEDUTA, Hero of Socialist Labour, Budyonny Kolkhoz, Odessa Region, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic