Valentina Dimitrieva

Valentina Dmitrievna Dimitrieva (; 16/25 September 1937 – 18 February 2019) was a Soviet Russian farm worker, production leader and politician who worked at the Motor Bolishebikshih collective farm from 1952 until her retirement in 1993 and was an elected deputy of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union from the between 1989 and 1991. She was one worker who began mechanisation of the farm she worked at to increase performance and raised productivity of the cows in her group by more than one-third in the early 1970s. Dimitrieva was decorated with the Medal "For Labour Valour"; 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 and the Medal "For Transforming the Non-Black Earth of the RSFSR".

Biography Between 16 and 25 September 1937, Dimitrieva was born in the village of , Kanashsky District, Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (today Chuvashia). as a Chuvash national into a peasant family. which meant she had not completed her secondary education, she began working as a collective farmer on the Red Flame collective farm in Kanash. Dmitrieva extracted of milk from each of the farm's cow per year from 1964, overtaking the milkmaids from Karmamey. She began and organised an All-Union competition with the livestock breeders of the Peremoga collective farm in Ukraine's Kherson Oblast in the early 1970s and demanded the board of her farm's collective to mechanise its equipment, increasing the productivity of the cows in her group by more than one-third. Dimitrieva retired in 1993.

She was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Dimitrieva was a delegate of the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1957. From 1989 to 1991, she served as an elected deputy of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union from the and was a member of the All-Russian Council of War and Labour Veterans.

Personal life Dimitrieva resided in Askhva with her son and his family. She died in Askhva on 18 February 2019.

Awards On 22 March 1967, Dimitrieva was decorated with the Medal "For Labour Valour" and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour on 8 April 1971. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet issued a decree honouring her with the title of Hero of Socialist Labour with the Order of Lenin and the "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal on 6 September 1973 "for the great successes achieved in the All-Union Socialist Competition, and the labor prowess shown in fulfilling the obligations assumed to increase the production and procurement of livestock products in the winter period of 1972–1973." Dimitrieva received the title of Honored Worker of Agriculture of the Chuvash ASSR in 1981 and was issued a Labour Veteran certificate in 1995. She was named an Honorary Citizen of the Kanash District in 2016. Dimitrieva was also a recipient of the Medal "For Transforming the Non-Black Earth of the RSFSR".