Here are my author's articles about lawlessness in domestic agriculture, theft of agricultural land, bureaucratic bribes, infringement of the rights of villagers, the transformation of estate complexes into amusing establishments and much more. Draw your own conclusions.

IGOR NECHAYEV - editor-in-chief of Derevenka

“55 years is only the beginning…” Valentina Sharova, consultant of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Moscow Region, congratulated the staff of the Yakhroma Agrarian College at the anniversary evening with such hackneyed mean words. Please note that it was not the minister or his deputy who congratulated the people, but an ordinary consultant. Many people sitting in the hall perceived these words of the consultant differently ...

From the very beginning, things went wrong at this anniversary party. It seems that everything was done in accordance with the regulations: the guests are greeted with laid tables with sandwiches and hot tea. At the entrance - friendly girls-students. Director Sergei Amusov, head of the Sinkovskoye rural settlement Nikolai Zubov, head of the Dmitrovsky agricultural department Valery Sarbash are looking forward to the arrival of the head of the district Valery Gavrilov in the lobby of the Yakhroma College. And here he is. The whole retinue hastily passes into the hall. It's almost full. Most of the guests are elderly people, veterans of production, who have devoted their entire working lives to the state farm. But still something is wrong...
A dry male voice greets the workers of Yakhrovsky and congratulates them on their 55th anniversary. As it turned out later, the voice was recorded and turned on at the right time. The festive evening was divided into only two blocks - congratulations on the awards ceremony and performances by non-professional artists - college employees, and the same ones. In general, the cost optimization for the concert is obvious. From poems in honor of the employees of the enterprise, the artists switched to ditties. The director of the college Sergei Amusov was the first to congratulate the team. According to him, today the achievements of this unique educational and industrial institution are much more modest than in the Soviet years. Three main specialties have been reduced: "Agronomy", "Zootechny", "Hydroreclamation". The production areas on the Yakhroma floodplain have decreased. The greenhouse complex was liquidated. The number of students decreased from two thousand to 360. A competent leader, Sergei Amusov devoted many years to the Yakhroma floodplain, worked as an agronomist and director of CJSC Kulikovo. But when he was appointed director of the Yakhroma College, he did not immediately understand how this educational and industrial institution still exists. In order for the reader to understand what is at stake here, it is necessary to recall the history of the college.

In 1958, by a decree of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR, a new type of secondary specialized agricultural educational institution was created in the village of Novo-Sinkovo, in which future specialists received powerful theoretical training combined with practical skills. The idea was simply brilliant - students directly from the classrooms got into the laboratories, sat down at the levers of the tractors, connected machine milking machines to the cows. Ivan Shcherbakov was appointed the first director of the Yakhroma state farm. In 1964, the state farm was transformed into the Yakhroma state farm technical school. Since 1964, this unique educational institution has trained mid-level personnel for agricultural production in four specialties: Agronomy, Zootechnics, Agricultural Mechanization, and Hydromelioration. At that time, about 2,000 students from all the republics of the Soviet Union studied annually in Yakhroma. Every year the technical school graduated 450 specialists. The state farm-technical school owned 3800 hectares of agricultural land, including 2940 hectares of arable land, the number of cattle was 2240 heads. The profit of the state farm annually amounted to more than 2 million rubles. Of these, 15% were deducted for educational work, improvement of hostels, equipping laboratories, amateur art activities. The yield of vegetable crops beat all records then. The average yield of vegetables was 600 centners per hectare, potatoes - 300 centners per hectare, grain crops - 49 centners per hectare. The milk yield per forage cow was over 4400 kg. The farm annually supplied more than 34,000 tons of vegetables, 7,000 tons of potatoes and 5,000 tons of milk. Together with the state farm-technical school, the village of Novo-Sinkovo ​​also grew. In a short time, residential buildings, dormitories, a school, a children's factory, a palace of culture with club and sports complexes, a building for practical training of mechanics and electricians were built here. The technical school had a powerful material and technical base: in classrooms and laboratories equipped with modern equipment, students studied the basics of theoretical knowledge in agronomy and zootechnics. Field and vegetable growing workshops, buildings of a greenhouse complex, workshops, vegetable stores, and livestock farms served as a practical training base for consolidating the material. In 1967, 33 classrooms and laboratories were organized at the technical school. The staff of the enterprise consisted of 120 teachers and 25 laboratory assistants. For the period from 1964 to 2008. more than 15 thousand specialists with secondary specialized education were trained. In January 1996, the Yakhroma state farm technical school was transformed into the state Yakhroma state farm college. Yakhrovsky ceased to receive state subsidies, milk yields decreased, and sown areas decreased. To save the Yakhroma Agrarian College in 2007, the government of the Moscow region decided to transfer the property of the enterprise from federal to regional ownership. Since 2008, the college has opened admission of students in the specialty "Computers, complexes, systems and networks." And in 2013, this specialty was safely closed. The reason is banal - the Ministry of Education of the region, which is in charge of the college today, simply did not give permission for a free enrollment. As a result, only three applicants applied for a paid admission.

The promises of the former governor of the Moscow Region Gromov were never realized - as before, the educational and production parts are inseparable from each other. In Soviet times, this was an ideal system for training personnel for the countryside. The caring state fed the educational and production part with subsidies. And the state farm-technical school itself made good money and did not need anything. All problems began when the 90s came, and subsidies ceased to come from ministries and departments. Production figures dropped below the plinth, debts began to accumulate on the accounts ... In 2013, the college management, due to gas and electricity debts, had to make a bitter decision to liquidate the greenhouse complex. People left the greenhouses with tears in their eyes. In order to somehow survive, part of the land and equipment were leased to neighbors on the floodplain, the Dmitrovskie Vegetables agricultural holding and Kulikovo CJSC. The enterprise cannot take an elementary commercial loan for development, because it is a state institution and is under the jurisdiction of the regional ministry of education.
With such results, the Yakhroma Agrarian College met its 55th anniversary. It is difficult to call this the beginning of the path, rather it is the end. What will happen to the school, time will tell. One thing is clear, there will be no such results as were achieved in Soviet times. This is understood by both production veterans and current employees. The former glory of the enterprise remained within the walls of the state farm museum.

P. S. Strangely, year after year in his messages to parliament, President Putin never mentions support for agriculture. This has been especially noticeable in recent years. Everything speaks about oil and gas production, about arming our army, about housing construction. Probably, the Kremlin has already set all the priorities, and this list did not include the agricultural sector. The reference point is obvious – import. The other day I was talking on the phone with a good friend of mine, farmer Viktor Savelyev. Last year, due to an epidemic of African swine fever, he was forced to destroy his entire livestock (he had 700 pigs). He still had rabbits and sheep on the farm. Now there are no more rabbits...

The State Budgetary Vocational Educational Institution of the Moscow Region "Yakhroma College" is a non-profit organization and operates in accordance with the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. Federal Law "On non-profit organizations". The Law of the Russian Federation "On Education", the Law of the Moscow Region "On Education", other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation and the Moscow Region and the Charter.

The college is a state budgetary educational institution of secondary vocational education in the Moscow region, which implements the main professional educational programs of secondary vocational education of basic training and programs of secondary vocational education of advanced training.

The state farm "Yakhromsky" was established in accordance with the order of the Moscow Regional Department of Agriculture dated 19. 12. 1958 No. 72.

By order of the Ministry of Agriculture of the RSFSR dated 10. 11. 1964 No. 303, the Yakhroma state farm "was reorganized into the Yakhroma state farm technical school.

By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated December 18, 1971, the Yakhroma state farm technical school was renamed into the Yakhroma state farm technical school with the Order of the Badge of Honor.

By order of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Russian Federation dated May 26, 1992 No. 304, the Yakhroma "Badge of Honor" state farm technical school was renamed the Yakhrovsky state farm college.

By order of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Russian Federation dated February 17, 1999 No. 70, the Yakhroma State Farm College was renamed the Federal State Educational Institution of Secondary Vocational Education State Farm College "Yakhroma".

By order of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation dated July 17, 2003 No. 1072, the Federal State Educational Institution of Secondary Vocational Education State Farm College "Yakhroma" was renamed the Federal State Educational Institution of Secondary Vocational Education "Yakhroma Agrarian College".

In accordance with the order of the Territorial Administration of the Federal Agency for Federal Property Management for the Moscow Region dated June 20, 2007 No. 594 and the Decree of the Government of the Moscow Region dated September 19, 2008 No. 826/33 College" was transferred to the ownership of the Moscow Region and renamed the State Educational Institution of Secondary Vocational Education of the Moscow Region "Yakhroma Agrarian College".

By Decree of the Government of the Moscow Region dated September 11, 2012 No. 1135/34, the State Educational Institution of Secondary Vocational Education of the Moscow Region "Yakhroma Agrarian College" was transferred to departmental subordination to the Ministry of Education of the Moscow Region.

Our founder is currently the Moscow region. On behalf of the Moscow Region, the functions and powers of the founder of the Institution, within its competence, are carried out by the Ministry of Education of the Moscow Region.

In 2016, by order of the Minister of Education of the Moscow Region, the State Educational Institution of Secondary Vocational Education of the Moscow Region "Yakhroma Agrarian College" was renamed the State Budgetary Vocational Educational Institution of the Moscow Region "Yakhroma College".

The state budgetary professional educational institution of the Moscow region "Yakhroma College" is a non-profit organization and operates in accordance with the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. Federal Law "On non-profit organizations". The Law of the Russian Federation "On Education", the Law of the Moscow Region "On Education", other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation and the Moscow Region and the Charter.
The college is a state budgetary educational institution of secondary vocational education in the Moscow region, which implements the main professional educational programs of secondary vocational education of basic training and programs of secondary vocational education of advanced training.
The state farm "Yakhromsky" was established in accordance with the order of the Moscow Regional Department of Agriculture of December 19, 1958 No. 72.
By order of the Ministry of Agriculture of the RSFSR dated November 10, 1964 No. 303, the Yakhroma state farm was reorganized into the Yakhroma state farm technical school.
By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of December 18, 1971, the Yakhroma State Farm College was renamed the Yakhroma State Farm College of the Order of the Badge of Honor.
By order of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Russian Federation of May 26, 1992, No. 304, the Yakhroma "Badge of Honor" state farm technical school was renamed the Yakhroma state farm college.
By order of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Russian Federation of February 17, 1999, No. 70, the Yakhroma State Farm College was renamed the Federal State Educational Institution of Secondary Vocational Education State Farm College "Yakhroma".
By order of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation dated July 17, 2003 No. 1072, the Federal State Educational Institution of Secondary Vocational Education State Farm College "Yakhroma" was renamed the Federal State Educational Institution of Secondary Vocational Education "Yakhroma Agrarian College".
In accordance with the order of the Territorial Administration of the Federal Agency for Federal Property Management for the Moscow Region of June 20, 2007 No. 594 and the Decree of the Government of the Moscow Region of September 19, 2008 No. 826/33, the Federal State Educational Institution of Secondary Vocational Education "Yakhroma Agricultural College" was transferred became the property of the Moscow Region and was renamed into the State Educational Institution of Secondary Vocational Education of the Moscow Region "Yakhroma Agrarian College".
By Decree of the Government of the Moscow Region dated September 11, 2012 No. 1135/34, the State Educational Institution of Secondary Vocational Education of the Moscow Region "Yakhroma Agrarian College" was transferred to departmental subordination to the Ministry of Education Moscow region.
Our founder is currently the Moscow region. On behalf of the Moscow Region, the functions and powers of the founder of the Institution, within its competence, are carried out by the Ministry of Education of the Moscow Region.
In 2016, by order of the Minister of Education of the Moscow Region, the State Educational Institution of Secondary Vocational Education of the Moscow Region "Yakhroma Agrarian College" was renamed the State Budgetary Vocational Educational Institution of the Moscow Region "Yakhroma College".