Alina Vedmid

Alina Petrovna Vedmid (; 28 June 1940 – 4 September 2008) was a Ukrainian politician and agronomist who was head of the "Zorya" collective farm in the Kyiv Oblast. She worked at the Peremoga collective farm in the Bohuslav Raion and was a laboratory assistant, technician-economist, engineer-economist at the Ukrainian Machine Testing Station. Vedmid was an economist and later chief economist of the collective farm "Dawn of Communism" in the Vasylkiv Raion. She was an elected deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic that lasted from 1984 to 1989 and in the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991 and in the third convocation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from 1998 to 2002. Vedmid was decorated with the Order of the Badge of Honour and the title of Hero of Socialist Labour with the Order of Lenin award and the "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal.

Biography On 28 June 1940, Vedmid was born to the electrician Pyotr Ivanovich Khilko and the cleaner Magi Maria Romanovna in the village of Saliv Khutor, Myronivka Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. Following her graduation from school in 1957 to 1959, she worked as an agronomist at the Peremoga collective farm in the Bohuslav Raion, Kyiv Oblast and then worked as a labour training teacher at the Salivonkovsky Secondary School in the Vasylkiv Raion, Kyiv Oblast between 1959 and 1961. Vedmid went on to become a laboratory assistant, technician-economist, engineer-economist at the Ukrainian Machine Testing Station, from 1961 to 1967.

Personal life and death Vedmid was married to Anatoly Panasovich Vedmid until his death in 1981. They had two children. Their car was impounded.

Awards She was decorated with the Order of the Badge of Honour on 24 December 1976. Mikhail Gorbachev, the President of the Soviet Union, issued a decree conferring Vedmid the title of Hero of Socialist Labour with the Order of Lenin award and the "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal on 7 June 1990.