Veterans of the forest industry of the Republic of Tatarstan: Ilmukhin Aleksandr Stepanovich
The column “Veterans of the forest industry” continues as part of the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Foundation. Today, its hero is Ilmukhin Aleksandr Stepanovich, who has devoted 46 years to forestry.
Aleksandr Ilmukhin was born on January 19, 1942 in Savgachevo village of Aksubayevskiy district. “I was born during the Great Patriotic War. I never saw my father, who went to the front in the fall of 1941. A notice came to mother that he was missing, recalls a veteran of the forest industry. - The post-war years were difficult, there was no own housing and we had to live in rented apartments. My mother worked as a nurse in a hospital. To help her, I started working at the collective farm at the age of 15”.
In the period from 1957 to 1962, Aleksandr Ilmukhin worked at the farm named after K. Marks in Aksubayevskiy district, in 1962 he entered the Mariinsko-Posadsky Forest Engineering College (now - the Mariinsko-Posadsky Branch of the Volga State Technological University).
“After graduating from college in 1966, I was sent to the Arkhangelskiy forestry enterprise of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, added Aleksandr Stepanovich. - But I was drawn to my Homeland, so after 4 years, I returned to my native republic and got a job as an Engineer for Forest Conservation and Protection in the Aksubayevskiy Timber Plant.
Aleksandr Ilmukhin worked at the Aksubayevskiy Timber Plant (SBI "Aksubayevskiy Forest District”) for 42 years. With his assistance, the work on protecting forests from illegal logging, preventing the occurrence of forest fires, and others was significantly strengthened in the institution. Aleksandr Stepanovich was awarded with the signs “For Conservation and Enrichment of Forest Treasures of the RSFSR” and “XXX Years of Service in State Forest Guard of the USSR”.
It is worth noting that at present his son, Andrei Ilmukhin, is the Head of the State Public Institution of the Republic of Tatarstan “Aksubayevskiy Forest District”.