Evdokia Bobyleva

Evdokia Fedorovna Bobyleva (; 18 August 1919 – 29 August 2017) was a Soviet and Russian teacher who served as a deputy in the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union from 1989 to 1991 and in the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union in 1991. She worked for more than 70 years as an educator in the Tula Oblast, serving as director of the Odoevskaya Secondary School between 1966 and 2010. Bobyleva served on the Regional Committee of the Trade Union of Education Workers and was a delegate to the XIV Congress of Trade Unions of the USSR in 1968. She was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honour, the Order of the Patriotic War, Second Class, the Order of Lenin and the People's Teacher of the USSR.

Biography On 18 August 1919, Bobyleva was born into a peasant family in the village of , Odoyevsky District, Tula Oblast. She had two siblings. she began working at the school in 1937, teaching the Russian language and Russian literature. She and her husband relocated to Riga in 1939, and was appointed head teacher of the Odoevskaya Secondary School in 1956.

She was frequently elected to serve on the Regional Committee of the Trade Union of Education Workers. Bobyleva was a participant in the 1962 World Congress for General Disarmament and Peace and gained election to the XIV Congress of Trade Unions of the USSR as a delegate six years later. In March 1989, she was elected to serve as a deputy in the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union. She was on the ,

Personal life She was married to the rural school director Ivan Aleksandrovich Bobylev from 1939 to his death in April 1944. Bobyleva did not remarry. She died on 29 August 2017, and was buried at Odoevsky City Cemetery. On 10 May 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev, the President of the Soviet Union, awarded her the People's Teacher of the USSR. Bobyleva received the Order of Kindness in 2003. She was made an honorary citizen of the Tula Oblast on 27 August 2008 by the Governor of Tula Oblast "for outstanding services to the Russian Federation and the Tula Region, high personal authority, many years of conscientious work, great personal contribution in the socio-economic development of the Tula Region." In 2014, Bobyleva received the "as a citizen whose activities brought significant results for the region in the state, political, economic, research, public and other spheres, which received wide public fame and recognition." She was also awarded the Commemorative medal "100 years of the Trade Unions of Russia" and the .