Valentina Gaganova

Valentina Ivanovna Gaganova (; 3 January 1932 – 25 October 2010) was a Russian and Soviet textile worker and politician who was shop foreman of the Vyshnevolotsk cotton mill. In order to bring lagging areas up to the level of advanced ones, she started a movement that was extensively implemented in the Soviet Union and other socialist countries. Gaganova was twice elected to serve on the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for ten years and was an elected deputy of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union for four years. She received various awards such as the Order of Lenin, the Hero of Socialist Labour, the Medal "For Labour Valour", the Order of the October Revolution and the Order of Honour.

Early life On 3 January 1932, Gaganova was born in the village of in the Spirovsky District of the Tver Oblast. She was the second oldest of five children in her family, and grew up in poverty. Gaganova was chosen to serve as the shift's Komsomol organisation's secretary on a group committee. The manufacturing school graduates who organised the Komsomol youth brigade appointed her as its foreman.

The new initiative was utilised across the factory, in Vyshny Volochok, and throughout the entire Upper Volga region because it was warmly received by various workers. Many workers in the Soviet Union and other socialist countries afterwards embraced it. and was buried at Vyshnevolotsk Old City Cemetery.

Honours She received the title of Hero of Socialist Labour with the Order of Lenin and the "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal "for a selfless example of selfless service to the interests of Soviet society" by a decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union on 8 July 1959. Gaganova earned the Medal "For Labour Valour" twice on 26 September 1957 and 26 April 1963. She was awarded the Order of Lenin a second time on 4 January 1970 and the Order of the October Revolution on 4 May 1971.

Gaganova was given the title of on 6 December 1981 and received the on 28 January 1987. In 1997, she was made an honorary citizen of the city of Vyshny Volochyok and of the Spirovsky District seven years later. Gaganova was given the Order of Honour on 1 July 1999. A memorial plaque was installed on her home in Vyshny Volochyok.