Rada Todorova

Rada Noeva Todorova (22 August 1902 – 1987) was a Bulgarian politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the National Assembly in 1945.

Biography Todorova was born in 1902 in the village of Karavelovo. In 1920 she joined Komsomol, and in 1922 became a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP). After completing high school in Karlovo, she became a teacher in Karavelovo. Having collaborated with the BCP's military organisation, she was arrested in 1925 and sentenced to twelve years in prison. Between 1947 and 1950 she served as Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Welfare. From 1954 to 1990 she was a member of the BCP central committee, and from 1958 to 1971 she was a member of the .

A member of the National Committee for the Defence of Peace, Todorova also edited the magazine. In 1964 she was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labour and in 1982 was made a Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria in 1982. She was also awarded the Order of Georgi Dimitrov four times. She died in 1987.