The farmer Oleg Gavrilishin

The farmer Oleg Gavrilishin flies on the airplane over his farm (in the lefdt window of the airplane), which borders on the v. Velyki Gay, Ternpopilska oblast, on Thursday, October 14, 1999. The builder by profession Gavrilin is occupied with the agriculture on his own farm (50 hectares) for ten years. For the first time he was at the controls in the students' aviation-club. During the last years he himself restored Yak-12A, put out in 50th, built some hang-gliders and a moto-hang-glider. According to the information of the Ukrainian Farmers Association, there are more than 36 farms in Ukraine today, which own 1.1 million of hectares and rent 500 thousands of hectares. There also more than 11 millions of private subsidiary farms, which work up 15% (more than 36 millions of hectares) of agricultural holdings of the country. Today the private sector puts out the 67% out of the general amount of the agricultural produce in Ukraine. Photo by Vladimir Aksenov/ UNIAN