Alevtina Fedulova

Alevtina Vasilyevna Fedulova (, 14 April 1940 – 5 February 2026) was a Russian political activist and leader of the Soviet Women's Committee (later the Union of Women of Russia).

Early life Fedulova was born on 14 April 1940 in Elektrostal, to an illiterate mother and a blacksmith father, who died when she was young. An excellent student, Fedulova wished to become a teacher as a child, but went to a local technical school linked to a local factory. Under pressure, Fedulova's mother paid the tuition to allow her to finish at the school, enabling her to take entrance exams in Moscow for a teacher training institute there.

Fedulova married at age 20, while still studying at the institute, in 1960. Her husband was conscripted to military service around the time their son was born.

Political career In 1963, Fedulova joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, about which she expressed some ambivalence. In 1987, she left her position to work for the Soviet Women's Committee full-time, and was elected vice-president of the organisation that same year. From 1981 until 1986, she was a member of the CPSU's Auditing Commission, and was promoted to the Central Committee in 1990. However, as leader of the Women of Russia bloc in 1993, but not affiliated with any political party in particular, she became a member of the Duma.

Personal life and death Fedulova was married to her husband, a former deputy sports minister, and had one son and two grandchildren.