For over 25 years, Inna Gakut has worked at JSC "Veselovo Food Combine" in the village of Veselovo, Borisov district. She came here after graduating from Molodechno Polytechnic College and stayed for good—her work record has only one entry. Today, Inna Maryanovna is the chief technologist of a company that has evolved from a starch factory to a modern wine producer since 1927.

“Every day at the company, we’re involved in production, testing, calculations, blending, and bottling,” says Inna Maryanovna. “The process of creating a new product always starts with the harvest season, which runs from August to November. Right now, we’re harvesting apples: we receive them, check quality, process them, and extract the juice. The juice is then fermented. We monitor the indicators and add sugar, yeast, and nutrients at the right time. Essentially, we prepare raw materials for an entire year.”

Inna Maryanovna is from the Vileika district. She studied at Molodechno Polytechnic College and, after graduating in 1999, came to the company for an internship—and ended up staying. “There’s only one entry in my work record,” she says proudly.

But her roles changed. She started as a winemaker, then experienced both demotions and promotions. She worked in the lab for a long time and knows all the tests. Later, she became a foreman, a technologist, and a production manager. Since 2015, she has been the chief technologist. “I know the production process from the workshop to the lab and the entire technology,” emphasizes Inna Gakut.

The Veselovo Food Combine is a modern wine production facility. Previously, it was the Veselovo starch factory, which only produced starch.

A technologist’s job in such a production facility isn’t just about controlling fermentation and blending. It involves daily apple acceptance, quality checks, juice extraction, monitoring indicators, and adding sugar, yeast, and nutrients on time.

The Veselovo Food Combine, with its nearly century-long history, continues to thrive and grow thanks to people like Inna Maryanovna Gakut—people for whom one entry in a work record isn’t a limitation, but a source of pride. """