Raïssa Koublitskaïa

Raïssa Vladimirovna Koublitskaïa (; 10 April 1928 – June 2021) was a Soviet Belarusian agricultural worker and politician who was the head of the cultivation of flax at the Kalinin collective farm from 1948 to her retirement in 1983. She served during the Great Patriotic War and was an elected deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic between 1967 and 1971. Koublitskaïa was twice the recipient of the Order of Lenin and also received the Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg", the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class and the Hero of Socialist Labour.

Biography On 10 April 1928, Koublitskaïa was born in the village of Kałyški, Liozna District, Minsk Region, Byelorussian SSR (today in Belarus). She was a graduate of the Kolyshansk Secondary School in the seventh grade in 1941. Koublitskaïa began working as a volunteer worker in a military hospital and remained in the job until 1946, when she returned to Kolyshki. She took part in the Great Patriotic War in Lithuania, Poland, East Prussia from 1944. A portrait of her was unveiled on the Alley of Glory in the town of Liozna in July 2015. Koublitskaïa was made an Honorary Citizen of the Liozno District an April 2018 and was also an Honored Collective Farmer.