Lyudmila Byakova

Lyudmila Stepanovna Byakova (; born 23 March 1946) is a Soviet and Russian seamstress-minder who worked at the Kirovo-Chepetsk garment factory and at the Kurgan Industrial Sewing Association. She supported an initiative by the Leningrad seamstress Chistyakova's "Five-year plan – two personal five-year plans.", finishing 21 annual assignments and training 41 young drivers over the course of a decade. Byakova led the All-Russian School of Professional Excellence and gave her experience of advanced methods of work to 24 seamstresses from various garment factories in the Soviet Union. She was an elected deputy of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union from women's groups from 1989 to 1991 and was on the Committee for Women, Family Protection, Motherhood and Childhood. Byakova was a delegate at the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1986 and at the 16th Congress of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. She has been awarded the Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"; the Order of the Red Banner of Labour; the USSR State Prize; the Order of the October Revolution and the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the Order of Lenin.

Biography On 23 March 1946, Byakova was born into a family of collective farmers in the village of , Kirov Oblast, Zuyevsky District, Russian RSFSR. Following her graduation from the eighth grade at her school in 1962, she became a seamstress apprentice at the Kirovo-Chepetsk garment factory in the Kirov Oblast, and three months later, she combined her secondary education that she did at night with work on the assembly line.

Byakova was appointed foreperson in 1965 after completing her secondary education and worked in that position from 1967. She was one of the first workers at the factory to support the initiative by the Leningrad seamstress Chistyakova's "Five-year plan – two personal five-year plans.". She was the guest of honour at the meeting of drummers in Bulgaria that was dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Stakhanov movement in Russia. She was named an and The Best Seamstress-Minder of the Ministry of Light Industry of the RSFSR.