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The ancestor of the Kurkins family of chemists was Lyubov Kurkina. The total employment record of the family is 52 years. Lyubov Kurkina was born on March 24, 1960 in the Bondyuga settlement (now, the city of Mendeleyevsk) in a family of hereditary chemists. Her parents worked at the Karpov Chemical Plant. In 1986, she graduated from the Kazan Institute of Chemical Technology (Technology Department). She joined the company in 1992 as a microbiologist engineer, and then worked as a leading labour protection expert at the food control and industrial safety service of AO Ammoni. Currently she is retired.

Her spouse, Sergey Kurkin, was born on January 1, 1960 in the Lobva settlement, Novolyalinsk District of Sverdlovsk Oblast. He graduated from the Kazan Institute of Chemical Technology (Mechanical Department) and has been working at the company since 1999 in the ammonium nitrate plant as a shift supervisor. He was awarded the title of the “Honoured Chemist of the Republic of Tatarstan”.

Today, the worker dynasty is continued by their son Artyom, who is employed as a technician for instrumentation and automation at the non-concentrated nitric acid plant of AO Ammoni. He graduated from the Nizhnekamsk Institute of Chemical Technology with a degree in automation of technologies and industrial processes.

Their daughter Polina graduated from the Omsk Banking School of the Russian Central Bank. She worked in Omsk and currently returned to her hometown with her husband and little daughter.