About Galina Zhitnyuk
Lived 1925 – 2020 (aged 95). Galina Zhitnyuk was a Russian civil servant and politician.
Galina Mikhailovna Zhitnyuk (; January 30, 1925, Kiev Governorate – July 16, 2020, Chișinău) was a Soviet and Moldovan politician.
She served as Minister of Light Industry 1965–1987.
Biography She was born in 1925 in Pustovarovka village.
Higher education - graduated from the Moscow State Textile University.
From 1942 she worked as an accountant.
Since 1949 - in economic, social and political work.
In 1953 - 1962 - engineer at textile enterprises in Riga and Chișinău.
Since 1962, the director of the Chisinau knitting factory "Steaua Roshie".
Since 1965 Minister of Light Industry of the Moldavian SSR.
Honored Engineer of the Moldavian SSR.
Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova.
She was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR of the 6th-11th convocations.
Member of the CPSU since 1955. Delegate of the XXII Congress of the CPSU.
She died on July 16, 2020, in Chișinău.
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Who was Galina Zhitnyuk?
Soviet-Moldovan politician
When was Galina Zhitnyuk born?
Galina Zhitnyuk was born on 30 January 1925 in Pustovarivka.
When did Galina Zhitnyuk die?
Galina Zhitnyuk died on 16 July 2020 in Chișinău.
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Galina Zhitnyuk was a civil servant and politician.
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Galina Zhitnyuk was Russian.
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