Tatjana Michaylovna Zacharova

Tatjana Michaylovna Zacharova (; born 21 January 1931) is a Russian production worker, author of prose and politician who worked for 33 years at the workshop of the Laminated Plastics Plant (today Sloplast LLC) from 1951 to 1984. She was an elected deputy of the tenth and eleventh convocations of the Supreme Soviet of Russia between 1980 and 1990 and was an active worker of the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and the Committee of Soviet Women. Zacharova has been awarded the Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, the Hero of Socialist Labour with the Order of Lenin and the "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal, the Order of the Badge of Honour, the Order of Friendship of Peoples.

Biography On 21 January 1931, Zacharova was born into a large, peasant family in the village of , Dolgorukovsky District, Central Black Earth Oblast (today the Lipetsk Oblast). In early 1947, two years after the conclusion of the war, she left the collective farm and moved to Leningrad (today Saint Petersburg. Zacharova became employed at the Laminated Plastics Plant of the Ministry of the Chemical Industry (today Sloplast LLC) in 1951 and worked at its workshop for the following 33 years. Zacharova was an active worker of the Committee of Soviet Women, the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and she was vice-president of the USSR-USA society.

Awards Zacharova has received various awards during her life. As a 14-year old teenager, upon the conclusion of the Great Patrotic War, she was awarded the Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945". Zacharova received the Order of the Red Banner of Labour on 28 May 1966, the title of Hero of Socialist Labour with the Order of Lenin and the "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union on 20 April 1971, the Order of the Badge of Honour on 5 March 1976 and the Order of Friendship of Peoples for her active social work on 6 April 1981. Zacharova is a laureate of the Big Dipper prize of the Association of Public Associations of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region and is an Honorary Resident of the Krasnogvardeysky District, Saint Petersburg.