Halyna Burkatska

Halyna Yevgenivna Burkatska (, ; – 15 March 2006) was a Soviet activist of the collective farm movement, twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1951, 1958). Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine in 1952-1966. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 3rd-6th convocations, member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1958-1962). Member of the Central Audit Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1961-1966.

Early life and education Burkatska was born on in the village of Heronymivka (now Cherkasy district of Cherkasy region) in a poor peasant family. In 1932 she graduated from a seven-year school.

Career From 1933 to 1935, Burkatska worked as the secretary of the Heronymivka village council and the chairman of the Shelepukhiv village council of the Cherkasy district. From 1935 to 1937 she was an instructor in the organizational and mass department of the Cherkasy District Council of Workers' Deputies of the Kyiv Region.

From 1937 to 1938, Burkatska studied at the Komsomol branch of the Artem Ukrainian Agricultural Communist University in Kharkiv.

In 1961, she visited London as part of a Soviet delegation.

Since 1968, Burkatska was a senior lecturer at the Department of Labor Organization of the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy in Kyiv. Order of Princess Olga III. (7 February 2001) - for fruitful public activity, significant personal contribution to the development of the veterans' movement Diploma of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR (16 February 1966)

Commemoration A bronze bust of Burkatskaya was installed in her native village Heronymivka. On 10 September 2008 a memorial plaque was unveiled at the house in the village of Heronymivka, where she lived.