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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.

The family of Kondratievs has 650 years of total employment record at the Kazan Synthetic Rubber Plant (KZSK). The labour dynasty began with two brothers, Ivan and Pyotr, who came in 1932 as masons at the construction site of the SK-4 plant; in 1940, Ivan’s wife also came to the plant. Seven years later, Ivan’s son Sergey became a turner. Sergey’s son, Nikolay Kondratiev has been a repairman there since 1975. His wife, Tatyana Kondratieva, is a chemist. His sister Valentina Gordeyeva is deputy chief accountant at the plant since 1995 and has been working to this day.

“For me, KZSK is a home enterprise. I went through different times with it, including uneasy ones. I am very pleased to receive this congratulation from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan and AO Sintez, which allowed the plant to survive and me not to interrupt this wonderful family tradition at the plant”, Valentina Gordeyeva said.