Background
OZERNYY, Mark was born on June 3, 1890 in Yekaterinoslav Province. Son of a peasant.
OZERNYY, Mark was born on June 3, 1890 in Yekaterinoslav Province. Son of a peasant.
From age 11 hired farm-hand. From 1933 worked on kolkhoz. From 1936 field-team leader, “Red Partisan” Kolkhoz, Mishchurinoroz.
1936 his field-team harvested 103.6 centners of corn per hectare, 1937 - 108.3, 1939 and 1940 - 120, 1949 - 223.8 centners per hectare for a two-hectare plot and 175 centners a hectare for an 8-hectare plot, thus setting a world com yield record. Developed an new strain of com which he named “Partizanka”. Delegation at 16th—18th Congresses of Communist Party Ukraine.
Deputy, Ukraine Supreme Soviet of 2nd—4th convocations.
Communist Party member from 1940.