I meet with colleagues

We communicate, though, mostly by phone. In the summer of 1978, I graduated from the Novosibirsk Higher Party School, the Department of Journalism. When I was just about to pass an interview in Novosibirsk, we, those who were with me in the same company, gathered in our Tomsk regional committee of the CPSU.

Immediately warned: Novosibirsk is a good city. Some listeners really like it, and they want to stay there. Will not work. The Novosibirsk Regional Committee because of you with our regional committee will not quarrel. The thought of remaining in Novosibirsk at me somewhere secretly matured. But after these words immediately died. So, I come home.

I'm going to the Party District Committee. I get registered and get an appointment - I will work in the office as the responsible secretary. I liked this work very much. Mainly, organizational skills are needed. At the end of November 1978, a district party conference was held, at which I was approved as an editor.

At that time there was not yet a faculty of journalism at the Tomsk University. There were vacant seats in the editorial office, and those who worked did not have journalistic education. I sat next to the newcomers at the table, did an analysis of the newspaper material. She explained on the flys what genres are, how they differ, how to work with headings, what headings there are, etc.

Gradually, a few people came to the staff. People all were responsible talented, loving the newspaper. They did not spare themselves. Constantly went on business trips, good drivers were good - Victor Vorobyov and Boris Popov. In the trips they worked with letters from readers, and if they could help people, they always rejoiced.

The young girl was helped to get a job. The pensioner was brought dry firewood, another repaired the apartment ... Galina Petrovna Lazarenko worked as a teacher in a neighboring village. It was empty, people were leaving. Galina Petrovna came to us. She is a talented person, she worked very hard. After a while we learned that a two-year department for journalist-practitioners who do not have journalistic education opens at the Moscow University.

In Galina Petrovna's family there were no children, only her husband, and she agreed to go to school. We paid the salary, and Galina Petrovna helped us during the summer holidays. But the most remarkable is Sasha, Alexander.

The change of climate influenced positively on the childbearing function, our student became pregnant (from her husband, of course), and to our general joy the son Sasha was born. In the village we did not have a flower shop, a big red flower was given for Galina Petrovna by our mutual friend. Sasha is now an adult, he and his wife have five children. He works for Tomkabel, like his wife. Now Sasha built a house, bought a car.

We are very happy for him. And for Galina Petrovna. The only person in the district who holds a degree in Moscow State University. Now she is retired, enjoys reading books. Galina Petrovna - a creative person, tried herself in serious literature - wrote a book. Sasha, when you were just born, and with this there were difficulties, I promised, when you become an adult, tell how hard you got mother. Details, if she wants, will tell you herself.

Raisa Alexandrovna Nepomnyashaya was our answering secretary. A very reliable person, you could easily leave the newspaper to her if you need to leave somewhere. Raisa Aleksandrovna worked in the editorial office together with her husband Vladimir Alexandrovich. When their daughter went to school, her mother left for Tomsk.

Zhenya's health, so her daughter's name, was such that it was impossible to leave one, Raisa Alexandrovna worked at school, taught history and was twice awarded as the best teacher. We saw a message in the regional newspaper Krasnoye Znamya and were very happy for Raisa Alexandrovna. Anatoly Ivanovich Chashchin is a thorough journalist. He worked in the editorial office together with his wife, Tamara Semyonovna.

They were young. A daughter was born, a son was born. We spent the days of the newspaper in the towns: the day of the open letter, the reading letters, preparing the revived pages of the newspaper. The people went to our events, then wrote letters to us more willingly. So the number of friends of the newspaper grew.Nina Ivanovna Konovalova began to cooperate with the newspaper while still a schoolgirl.

We followed her studies at the Faculty of Journalism in Tomsk. I remember how Nina Ivanovna and Tamara Semyonovna conducted an evening of acquaintance with the newspaper in the Central. It was very cold, everyone was dressed in outer clothing, and my girls - in light elegant dresses. Upon returning home, of course, the newspaper had a full account of everything that was seen in the village. Our common creative work made the newspaper interesting.

We then sent each number to the regional committee of the CPSU. One day our newspaper returns, and it says: "I thought, nothing will ever come of the dense Verkhnektska newspaper. Well done! Keep it up! "This was written by our secretary of the regional committee, RM Romanov, a former journalist. Our editorial staff gradually became a forge of cadres.

Anatoly Ivanovich Chashchin became editor of the Strezhevskaya newspaper, Viktor Fedorovich Turbin-Kolpashevskaya, Larisa Stepanovna Schepetkina-Parabelskaya. Years go by, but there is a feeling of joy.

Pleasures from communicating with colleagues. The 8th of March is the female day. Remember, my dear, how did you arrange a tea party for the whole staff of the editorial office and the printing house, announced a contest for the best baked goods?

Of course, we all tried, and it was delicious. But the first place, by common consent, was given to the setter Matrena Yakovlevna Balakhnina - such pies, maybe they did not even eat more. Congratulations! Be healthy!

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