Tetiana Balahura

Tetiana Ivanivna Balahura (; ; born 12 January 1960) is a Ukrainian language teacher. She began working as a teacher of the Ukrainian language and literature in 1980 and has been at the Poltava Lyceum No. 1 named after Ivan Kotliarevskyi since 2001. Balahura is the author of textbooks on the Ukrainian language, poems which have been printed, songs, scripts, more than 48 scientific works in magazines and newspapers, and has edited 29 poetry collections for students. She has served as the head of the Poltava City Methodical Association of Ukrainian Language and Literature Teachers and is the permanent head of the literary studio "Pereveslo", whose students have won multiple times at city-, regional- and international-level poetry and prose competitions. Balahura was conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine with the Order of the State by president Viktor Yushchenko in 2009.

Biography Balahura was born in the city of Nadvirna, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast on 12 January 1960. She graduated from the No. 30 Gymnasium in the city of Poltava in 1977. Four years later, Balahura graduated from the with a diploma with honours. She has authored textbooks on the Ukrainian language, her own poems which have been printed in other books, songs, scripts, more than 48 scientific works in magazines and newspapers, and has edited 29 poetry collections for students.

Awards In 1988, she was awarded the . The following year, Balahura received the certificate of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and was also awarded certificates of the city and regional departments of education, a certificate of the Poltava Regional State Administration. Balahura was given diplomas of the Poltava Regional State Administration, city and regional departments of education in 2011.