In the Year of Belarusian Women and on the eve of the Day of Workers of Agriculture and Processing in the Agro-Industrial Complex, we are telling you about the female employees of the Rogachev MKC. Thanks to their hard work, our tables are filled not only with the classic condensed milk we’ve loved since childhood, but also with over a hundred varieties of high-quality and delicious dairy products. The dedication and professionalism of the plant’s employees have been repeatedly recognized with awards, and their portraits have been inscribed on the company’s Honor Board. At the same time, each of them successfully combines their professional duties and community work with an equally important mission—motherhood and care for their families.

A conscious choice

Oksana Supey has been working as a workshop master for whole milk products for 15 years.

Next year will mark 20 years since Oksana Supey joined the Rogachev Milk and Canning Plant. She started, like many others, as a packer, then moved on to preparing kefir starter. Later, she decided that her professional future lay at the plant and graduated from the Mogilev University of Food and Chemical Technologies in absentia with a degree in “Engineer-Technologist of Dairy Production,” balancing her studies with raising children. Today, she is rightly proud of her adult daughter and son, who this year enrolled in the Gomel Cadet School.

The heroine has worked as a workshop master for whole milk products under the leadership of Svetlana Evtukhova for 15 years. She sincerely admires her boss’s professionalism and the atmosphere of friendship, mutual assistance, and support that prevails in the team. “I chose my profession consciously, which is probably why I go to work with pleasure. And the relationships with colleagues have turned out to be the best,” the master admits.

She is actively involved in the enterprise’s community life: the Rogachev MKC team, which includes Oksana Supey, took third place this year in the competitions of civil defense sanitary units in the Gomel region.

In the heart of the workshop

Tatyana Seriakova works in the very heart of the canning workshop. """

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""" Tatyana Seriakova’s story is a classic example of career progression within a single company and dedication to one’s chosen field. She started out as a packer in the whole milk department, then retrained as a technician, and later became an automatic line operator. Today, her workplace is the main control panel of the canning department, which she likes to call the heart of the department. From there, she monitors all technological processes for 12 hours—the length of a shift—including milk reception, cleaning, pasteurization, concentration, and equipment washing and disinfection. For her, this is not just a job but a way of life she has followed for many years, even after reaching retirement age. “I became an operator at 33, when my sons were little,” Tatyana recalls. “We worked as much as we could with my husband—he’s in the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and I’m at the plant. It was hard, of course, and we had to rely only on ourselves—we’re not locals, but our children grew up to be independent.”

Interestingly, as a child she wanted to work in greenhouses, but to get an education she would have had to go to Leningrad. Her parents didn’t dare to let their daughter go so far from home. The heroine doesn’t regret that her life turned out this way, and she fulfills her dreams on her dacha, growing impressive harvests.

A special mission

Microbiologist Lyudmila Makarenko found her calling at the plant.

Lyudmila Makarenko came to the Rogachev MKC about twenty years ago as a seasonal laboratory assistant in the production lab. But management quickly noticed her responsibility and offered her to stay and get the appropriate education in parallel. Lyudmila graduated from Mogilev University with a degree in “Engineer-Technology of Milk and Dairy Products” and today works as a microbiologist. No batch of products leaves the enterprise without her conclusion.

But she doesn’t just perform her professional duties—she lives for the team’s interests, participates in the plant’s public life, and defends its honor in table tennis competitions. “A separate topic is the relationships in the laboratory,” notes the microbiologist. “In our small, all-female department, mutual assistance and professional solidarity are not empty words.” """

""" Lyudmila was born in the village of Rechki in the Vetka district, but she considers Rogachevshchina her true home. Her family moved there after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when she was just three years old. Today, she cannot imagine life without the factory where she found her passion, and the city where she experienced the joy of motherhood. Lyudmila and Igor Makarenko have three children, whom they adore. Their eldest daughter, Violetta, a ninth-grader, is a dedicated rower; their second child, Arseniy, a sixth-grader, plays football; and their youngest, Nazar, a third-grader, is still exploring his interests.

Looking up to veterans

Tatyana Vasilievska has dedicated her entire life to the Rogachev MKC.

Tatyana Nikolayevna Vasilievska devoted nearly four decades of her life to the factory, from 1974 to 2011. Born in the Rogachev district, she graduated from Pinsk Technological College in 1972 and was assigned to the laboratory of the Grodno hormone factory. Two years later, she married and returned to her hometown, working as a shift supervisor in the dry milk and butter production workshop. In 1993, she was appointed workshop manager, where her organizational skills truly flourished. This coincided with the introduction of new dryers. "I spent long hours at work with my colleagues. It was challenging, but we managed," she recalls.

Tatyana Nikolayevna has dedicated her life to the Rogachev MKC, but family has always been equally important to her. Her two daughters grew up in an environment of hard work and responsibility. The eldest became a teacher, while the youngest followed in her mother's footsteps, working at the factory in the accounting department. Tatyana Nikolayevna has five grandchildren and a great-grandchild, and every visit from them brings her immense joy and happiness as a loving grandmother. Although retired for 15 years, Tatyana Vasilievska remains active, enjoying gardening and growing vegetables. """