| 14.06.2022 |
Stavropol State Agrarian University has joined the All-Russian campaign "Scientific Regiment", which is carried out by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.
"Scientific Regiment" is a series of publications about students and teachers, about scientists who, during the years of the Great Patriotic War, brought the Victory closer with their military and labor feat.
The main goal of the project is the patriotic education of young people and the preservation of the memory of the Great Victory. Thousands of students, teachers, workers and employees of institutes volunteered to go to the front. Their memory must live on!
Nobody is forgotten, nothing is forgotten. It is with this phrase that I want to start the story about the veteran of the Great Patriotic War and Veteran of Labor Molotkov Alexander Petrovich.
Alexander Petrovich was born on November 24, 1925 in the town of Topki in the Kemerovo region. The veteran's family had six children, he was the fifth. In 1942, he graduated from the 9th grade of high school, and then entered the locomotive depot as a mechanic, then was transferred to a turner, where he worked until November 1942.
When the war began, all the brothers of Alexander Petrovich Molotkov and himself were taken to the front, then, due to a shortage of machinists, I.V. Stalin issued an order "On the return of machinists to the railways."
“I was 17 years old, upon mobilization I was sent to restore the evacuated defense plant in the city of Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Kemerovo Region. There was a shortage of construction equipment, living conditions were extremely difficult, and the lack of food was acute. With shovels, picks, crowbars they dug trenches under the walls of workshops, pits for concreting them under the bases of machine tools. I also dug trenches and pits. At the end of these works, an order was issued on November 28, 1942 for the plant: “Molotkov A.P. is accepted for a permanent job in the hammer workshop as a hammerer.” With the commissioning of the machine shop, I was transferred as an apprentice turner”- from the memoirs of Alexander Petrovich.
From 1942 to August 1945, Molotkov worked as a turner at the plant. He was engaged in social work at the enterprise. At the same time he studied and completed 10 classes of the evening school for working youth.
The whole family of Alexander Petrovich worked on the railroad. However, this job was not for him, and he decided to become a teacher. Molotkov entered the Novokuznetsk Pedagogical Institute, where he studied from 1952 to 1956. Throughout his life, the labor veteran worked as an instructor, consultant, deputy head of propaganda and agitation of the Novokuznetsk city committee of the CPSU. From 1952 to 1967 he taught and was the head of the department of the evening university of Marxism - Leninism. From August 1956 to August 1968 - assistant, senior lecturer at the Department of Political Economy of the Novokuznetsk Pedagogical Institute. In 1956 he defended his thesis.
Upon arrival in Stavropol, Molotkov A.P. went around all the institutes to transfer. The choice fell on the Agricultural Institute.
From 1967 to 1969 he was an associate professor at the Department of Political Economy of Stavropol Agricultural Institute. From 1969 to 1982 - Secretary of the Party Committee of the Agricultural Institute. From 1978 to 1988 - head of the department.
“Give up everything and start all over again” - this is how the daughter-in-law of Alexander Petrovich, Molotkova Natalia Vasilievna, described his lifestyle.
Throughout his life, Molotkov Alexander Petrovich received many awards:
Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945";
Medal "Veteran of Labor";
Medal "For valiant labor commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of V. I. Lenin";
Anniversary medals: 20 years of victory, 30 years of victory, 40 years of victory, 50 years of victory, 60 years of victory, 65 years of victory, 70 years of victory and 75 years of victory;
Sign of the Ministry of Agriculture of the USSR "Excellent worker of socialist agriculture";
Sign of the "Shockworker of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan";
Badge of Stavropol State Agrarian University “Glory and pride of the university.
Alexander Petrovich died on November 4, 2021 at the age of 96. However, his memory will live on forever.
The war is long gone
Veterans turned gray
And the forty-fifth spring
Still heals wounds
You defended the world in battles
With an enemy cruel and insidious
And forever in human hearts
Your feat will be legendary
