Results of six-Union Exhibition 1930 (Part 2)

One of these centers became Leningrad.
In Leningrad before the war were Caucasian Shepherd is very small. Thus, in the Yearbook section of dog blood of the Leningrad City Association for the 1929 report of the XI Exhibition 1928 (27/29-10) judges PF Pupysheva describes six Caucasian shepherd dogs (4 males and 2 females), exhibited in the open and puppy classes. All the dogs of unknown origin. The owners of these dogs were military depot № 54 and "Utilkollektiv."
Dog before the war left no trace but the history of the breed. After World War II breeding Caucasian Shepherd began anew. Just as before the war, Caucasian Shepherd has continued to interest agencies that have used this breed to guard service.
In 1949, a great enthusiast of service dog, OD Koshkin was carried out the first post-war import Caucasian Shepherd Mr Leningrad.
In 1953, the NN Chernyshov brought to nursery paramilitary security companies Lensovnarhoza dogs from Georgia and Azerbaijan. Among these dogs were coming tribal vendors Gurdjieff, Thunder, Thunder, Tfan. All these dogs were of different types.
In Moscow, the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition in 1956 exposed males: long-haired sable gray Dato, a gray-speckled Vephiya, spotted Chaudhry and Ogre purchased kennel "Red Star", where he subsequently Vephiya widely used as a producer.
In May 1959 Lensovnarhoz carried out the most significant import of dogs from Azerbaijan, in the same year in Moscow at the All-Union Exhibition of Leningrad were purchased dogs from Georgia - Bar Reef and included in further breeding. The son of Rem Reef later became the All-Union Exhibition of Economic Achievements winner and champion.
In addition to these dogs were widely used Palace - black male, born in 1961, smuggled out of Georgia, Azerbaijan exported from Talat, the sons and Tfana Thunders - Gurdjieff and Gurzuf. Later in the breeding sons attended Palace - Abraham (vlad. Haas) and Augur-Alash (vlad. kennel Baltic Shipyard), obtained from the daughter of Gurdjieff Vistula.
Thus, in the 60s there was a group in Leningrad Caucasian Shepherd, relatively isolated from the rest of origin population of the country. The dogs of this group in the mass exterior somewhat inferior to the dogs of Moscow and Ivanovo breeding.
In 1964 at the age of one year in Leningrad from Yaroslavl brought Sultan (vlad. nursery Okhta Chemical Plant), which left a significant mark on the breeding of Leningrad. He was descended from the son of Chodra - Proud and Martha - Moscow manufacturers and was the grandson of maternal champion ENEA Abdullah's 1962-1963 K-II (vlad. "Red Star"), exported from the Caucasus. The sultan was large, with massive bone, slightly elongated, very harmonious and in proportion to the folded gray male piebald color. He had a massive, perfect lines and proportions of the head with the bulk, with no signs of damp face.
Direct successor of Sultan Reshad his son, who succeeded in his life a few owners. His mother was the winner Macaw, owned by the Institute of Krylov.
Reshad somewhat inferior to his father, Sultan. It was not as compact and harmonious, seemed more stretched due to long back. Its coloration is dominated by bright-red hue. Reshad has been repeatedly used in the breeding.

T.Ivanova, V.Kalinin, L.Morozova.