Galina Vecherkovskaya

Galina Yanovna Vecherkovskaya (also Putyrskaya, , born 27 June 1926) is a Soviet retired rower who won five European titles between 1955 and 1962.

Before the 1955 European Championships, Vecherkovskaya and her partner Olimpiada Mikhaylova were medal favorites in double sculls. However, two rowers of the Soviet coxed four became pregnant, and to save the team Vecherkovskaya and Mikhailova were merged into the coxed four that resulted in a gold medal.