Draft:Aleksandr Gitalov

Aleksandr Vasilyevich Gitalov (Александр Васи́льевич Гиталов; 27 May 1915 – 17 March 1994) was a Soviet politician and soviet innovator of collective farm production, twice Hero of the Socialist Labour.

Biography
Gitalov was born in 27 May 1915, in the village of Tatarovka, Elisavetgrad uezd, Kherson province, Russian empire. He lived a poor peasant family. His father, Vasily Gitalov, fight in the civil war, was wounded in the war and soon died of typhus.

He began his career at a Kamyshevatoye collective farm in 1929. In 1934, he graduated from a tractor driving courses. In 1936, he was a foreman of the tractor brigade of Malopomoshnyanskaya MTS in Novoukrainsky raion. After the dissolution of the MTS in 1958, in the same position at the collective farm.

He joined the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War. After the war, he continued to work as a foreman at Malopomoshnyanskaya MTS. In 1947, he received an average of 22.4 centners of rye per hectare on an area of 165 hectares. He was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labour and an Order of Lenin.

Party Career
In 1948, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was a member of the Soviet Peace Committee, also he was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine since 1956. In 1954, he was then appointed a deputy of the Soviet of Nationalities. He was awarded again the Hero of the Socialist Labour in 1958 for his success in the development of agriculture.

Death
He retired in 1989 and moved to his hometown in Ukraine SSR before the Dissolution of the Soviet Union. He died in 17 March 1994 from natural causes at the age of 78 years old, he was buried in a new cemetery in his native village.