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V.N. Vinogradov was born on October 8, 1951 in Kuibishev
city (now Samara) in an ordinary working family. His father
Nicholai Petrovich was a driver and his mother Raisa Fedorovna
worked at a dairy plant.
His father's ancestors were Orenburg Cossacks. According
to the family's legends, men of the Vinogradov clan even in
the background of unrestricted and strong Cossacks were remarkable
for their love of freedom, competitive spirit and physical
strength. His grandfather was a badly wounded hero of the
World War I.
There were businessmen in the Gousevs clan his mother came
from. His great-great-grandfather was a merchant carrying
out large-scale wheat trade and possessing an elevator. His
great-grandfather who inherited the business skillfully increased
the fortune, however, he was deprived of all this after the
revolution of 1917.
Vladimir has joined the positive features of both these ancient
clans. Since childhood he has been a very active and fair
person indeed standing up for those who was younger and weaker
than him girls being among them. He was very bold and self
confident in street fights and always defeated his enemies.
At the same time one of his most essential features was his
ability to aim at a serious goal, think over and count upon
everything and emphatically achieve everything. In the future
it has formed the basis of his fighter's character and businessman's
talent.
Vladimir spent his childhood in Pechersk village under Syzran.
His family lived in the house built by his great-great-grandfather.
It was the only piece left of the property of merchants Gousevs.
Vladimir was the eldest child in the family, his brother Eugeny
was four years younger and his sister Olga was seven years
younger.
Children's labor was meant by both rather poor living and
habits of the family. From the pre-school age the children
had permanent duties and almost the whole housekeeping work.
When they grew up they used to work for the collective farm
along with the adults.
Vladimir's first working place was a rigid metallic seat
before a steering wheel of a large towed sever-ploughshare
plow. His position was called "a trailer hand".
At the time there were no hydraulic systems on agricultural
machines and the young trailer hand had to turn the steering
wheel as hard as he could shoving the plow into the ground
and then taking it off when making a turn doing so hundreds
of times a shift.
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