Lyubov Vorona

Lyubov Kyrylivna Vorona (; 7 April 1931 – July 2021) was a Ukrainian farm worker and politician. She worked as a senior zootechnician and livestock specialist (later chief livestock specialist) in the Chkalov collective farm's Zhdanovsky and Polivanovsky sections. Vorona was secretary of the Novomayachkovsky District Committee of the Komsomol of Ukraine and led the collective farm "Gigant" from 1973 to 1977 as well as the reproductive complex of the collective farm "For the World" from 1990 to 1994. She was a deputy of both the ninth convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council and was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Vorona was the recipient of various government awards such as the Order of Lenin and the Hero of Socialist Labour.

Biography Vorona was born on 7 April 1931 in in the Mahdalynivka Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. She was the youngest of four children in a peasant family of collective farmers who moved to the Mahdalynivka Raion in the early 1920s from the surrounding Poltava Oblast. Vorona's mother, Natalia Mykytivna Vorona, died when she was five years old in 1936, and she was raised alone by her father, Kyrylo Kuzmych, the secretary of the local village organisation. In 1939, she enrolled at the Olenivsk seven-year school. She chaired the executive committee of the Magdalino District Council of People's Deputies of the Dnepropetrovsk Region from 1977 to 1984 before becoming the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Dnepropetrovsk Region's Magdalino District Committee from 1984 to 1989. Vorona oversaw the construction of various buildings, a large-scale gasification of the region, and the May 1985 opening of the district historical and local history museum.

Awards Vorona was the recipient of various government awards. She was given the Medal "For Labour Valour" on 7 March 1960. Vorona was conferred the title of Hero of Socialist Labour with the Order of Lenin and the "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal "for the successes achieved in the development of animal husbandry, the increase in the production of meat, milk, eggs, wool and other products" by a decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union on 22 March 1966.

She received the Order of the October Revolution on 8 April 1971 and was twice conferred the Order of the Red Banner of Labour on 8 December 1973 and 24 December 1976. Vorona got the Order of Princess Olga, 3rd class on 13 November 2001. She was presented with the , the Order of Friendship of Peoples and the Medal "For Distinguished Labour". In the early 2000s, Vorona was made an Honorary Citizen of the Mahdalynivka Raion of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.