Victor Kostenko Biography

Cossack, Chernobyl, deputy and poet invite readers of the newspaper "Tribune" a story about the life and fate of Viktor Fedorovich Kostenko, a hereditary Cossack, the paratrooper of the Airborne Forces, a participant in the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster, from the years of the chieftain of the Novovelychovsky Cossack Society, the veteran of labor and the current deputy of the Noverelychovsky village settlement.

About parents, Viktor Fedorovich Kostenko, was born in the family of the teacher's dynasty. Parents have always been an example for him. Father at the age of 17 became the first director of the school! And he studied at the village of Abinskaya at a nine -year school with a pedagogical bias, 18 kilometers went back and forth. He became a teacher, then entered the flight school.

But there were not enough teachers in the region, and he was returned. During the occupation, the school did not work. And after the expulsion of the Nazis moved to the Kopanskaya farm, where Viktor Fedorovich was born in the year. The Germans, arranging raids due to the “blue line”, bombed Krasnodar. Near the house there was a cinema, so 30 pilots who are in it were killed from a dropped bomb.

Grandmother with Aunt Katya, my mother’s sister, also died. After the war, the elementary school earned in the village of Vorontsovskaya, and my father became its director. It was a restless time. After the occupation, there were a lot of gangs. A fighter battalion was created, and the father became the commissar of this battalion. The horse of the collective farm stables and weapons - the Polish carbine were assigned to him.

My father, a teacher of Russian language and literature, became the first teacher from the Dinsky district, whose school experience was more than 50 years. He led the literary and creative circle. Many of his students became professional poets. Mother, a biologist, led a young naturalist circle, and the school site took second place in the region, and the members of the circle were encouraged by a trip to Moscow to an exhibition of achievements of the national economy.

We create the Cossack Museum Viktor Fedorovich by education historian. Moreover, he entered the Kuban Pedagogical Institute, which was then renamed the Kuban State University. After the law on the rehabilitation and creation of the Novovelychkovsky Cossack society, he began to study the problems of the history of the Cossacks. Indeed, during the years of Soviet power it was not customary to talk about it at all.

But Viktor Fedorovich came to the conclusion that it is impossible to be silent, our descendants should know their history, origin, and as well as the history of the small homeland and the Fatherland. Having re -read and studied many works on the history of his native Kuban, the knowledge gained systematized and drew up a course of lectures on the history of the Cossacks. Throughout their lives, many exhibits and materials were collected from the history of the emergence of the mounds near the village of Novovelychkovskaya to the modern development of the Cossacks.

There was no unnoticed by the leadership of the Novovelychkovsky settlement and the idea of ​​creating a Cossack museum at the headquarters of the Novovelychkovsky KHKO. For this, the premises were provided where repair work is currently underway. Stanichniki know that the name of Viktor Fedorovich was repeatedly listed on the Board of Honor “Labor Glory of the Novovelychkovsky rural settlement”.

However, not all fellow countrymen know that he has personal merits in the development of the Cossack movement in the Dinsky district and the Krasnodar Territory and was awarded the medal of the Order for Merit of the II degree, the badge “Merit to the Kuban Cossacks”, the badge of the Kuban Cossack Cross. For thirty years, Viktor Fedorovich has been organizing and conducting volleyball training for the Cossack youth of the Novovelychkovsky HKO.

He played volleyball for 18 years, becoming a multiple champion of the region, and in the national team of the region he took first places in Russia. There were second place in table tennis, and third place in the TRP. Having great pedagogical experience at school, he was a mentor in Cossack classes. On a well -deserved rest, Viktor Fedorovich, being in the Council of the Old Men, is carrying out patriotic work among young Cossacks in the Cossack society.

The initiator of many events dedicated to both the tragic dates of the Kuban Cossacks and the preservation of glory to the Cossacks, whose names are inscribed in the history of the Cossacks of Russia, acts. Viktor Fedorovich is delighted by children and grandchildren. He also writes poetry. Read other headings: society similar notes.