Lot photo of Hero of Socialist labor of the cotton-grower, Nazarali Niyazov

The lot includes two photos, one of which shows Niyazov with two officers of the Soviet army: a major and a Colonel. On the chest of the Hero are two orders of Lenin, the star of the Hero of socialist labor and the badge of the Stalin prize, received in 1951 for outstanding inventions and fundamental improvements in production methods. The size of each image is 105*165 mm. The back sides are clean. Guarantee of authenticity.

Nazarali Niyazov (1873 -?) - Soviet cotton grower, Hero of Socialist Labor. He worked as a link of the Voroshilov collective farm in the Yangiyul district of the Tashkent region of the Uzbek SSR. In 1947, Niyazov proposed a new method of irrigation for cotton plantations. Having received for the experiment a waste section of serozem on loess-like loam, consisting of mounds, steeps and hollows, together with his link of irrigators, he cut special, temporary irrigation furrows, which made it possible to spend less water, improve its absorption, protect the soil from silting and salinization, and significantly limit the cultivation of cotton. In the first year, the Niyazov link collected 87 quintals of raw cotton per hectare — three times more than was required under the state agreement of the collective farm. Niyazov's method was adopted by other cotton farms of the Republic. On April 27, 1948, Nazarali Niyazov was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor for creating an innovative method, and later, in 1951, he was awarded the Stalin prize.