Valentina Borisovna Grekova

Valentina Borisovna Grekova (, née Valentina Borisovna Rosenfeld; 6 May 1931 – 2 April 2019) was a Soviet Russian art and building restorer. She was awarded the USSR State Prize. Early life and education Valentina Borisovna Grekova was born on 6 May 1931, in Samara, Soviet Union. Grekova's father taught at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute and was arrested and shot during the Great Terror.

In 1950, she began her studies at Moscow State University, in the evening department of art studies at the Faculty of History (graduating with honors in 1956). In her third year, she began working in the architecture group of the Central Scientific Restoration Workshop. The work was so interesting and important that they continued to be involved. They worked together, reported and published together, and jointly organized the exhibitions of the salvaged frescoes. and was buried next to her husband in the cemetery of the monastery in Chutin on the right bank of the Volkhov River north of Veliky Novgorod.