People say: "Where one was born, that's where one proved useful." In the case of Eleni Paramon, this folk wisdom works at 100 percent. Looking at her work path, Eleni smiles and says: "There's nothing special in my biography." But behind this modesty lie decades of honest, difficult, diligent labor, respect from colleagues, and sincere love for the chosen profession.

Eleni's choice of future profession was not accidental: her mother worked as a dairymaid (doyarka) all her life, her father was a tractor driver at a kolkhoz, and her brother today works as a mechanic at a neighboring enterprise of JSC "Kadino". Following their footsteps was a natural decision. After graduating from the Rechitsa state farm technical school in the Gomel region in 1989, young graduate received a targeted direction and immediately immersed herself in agricultural production. Her first job position became the role of farm manager in the village of Shchezer, in then-still-strong kolkhoz "Pobeda". This is five kilometers from Romanovich, where Eleni lived with her parents.

"— At first I was a little afraid," Eleni recalls. "But I was very lucky with my mentors." Chairman Georgy Ivanovich Germanovich, chief economist Viktor Mikhailovich By

Today Elena Paramon is the head of the seed culture warehouse of the "Romanovichi" poultry factory branch in Shchedere. Under her management are four huge warehouses of 600 square meters each. Her zoological education and meticulous nature toward any task unfortunately had to be relevant here.

— With grain — it's living work, I also really like it. — Elena Ivanovna enthusiastically explains. — You sort winter and spring grains

No matter where fate threw Elena, she has always had a good reputation everywhere. She handles everything: being a reliable support for her husband (he too works at a poultry factory as a driver), raising her son Pavel, who recently got married and lives in Mogilev. And of course, she has a good reputation among management and colleagues.

Elena received an apartment in Szczecin. She lives surrounded by good people. Her neighbor is Anna Ivanovna Kopytova, a former dairy farmer who raised seven children—an actual friend. Many of her former dairy farmers are still around, and Elena still meets them warmly. One of them, Zhanna Belasova, recently confessed: "If we opened our farm again, I would go milk the cows once more!"

"Every piece of life has its own sweetness," Elena Paramonov concludes. "I am grateful to fate; I have been lucky throughout my life with good teachers and kind people. I have never experienced any conflicts. I am genuinely happy that I chose to work in agriculture."