Valentina Romanovna Parsjina

Valentina Romanovna Parshina (; 16 March 1937 – 21 December 2020) was a Soviet and Russian agronomist and politician. She was a foreman of vegetable growers at the Detskoselsky Order of Lenin state farm as well as an elected member of the 10th and 11th convocations of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and was on the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1990. Parshina and her team gave food to the Soviet state and became self-sufficient with more than 100 employees. She was honoured with the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, twice the Order of Lenin with the title of Hero of Socialist Labour, the "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal and the Order of the October Revolution.

Early life On 16 March 1937, Parshina was born into a large peasant family in the village of , , Leningrad Oblast (today the Lyubotinsky District, Novgorod Oblast). Her mother was a worker on a collective farm and her father worked as a lumberjack. Parshina developed a likeness digging in her family's garden from a young age. she was sent to work at the Detskoselsky Order of Lenin state farm in the Tosnensky district, Leningrad region as a foreman of vegetable growers from 21 December 1959. Parshina was mentored by the farm's director Ivan Sergeevich Shinkarev,

Honours Parshina was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour on 4 August 1971 and twice earned the Order of Lenin on 12 November 1973 on 24 February 1978 with the title of Hero of Socialist Labour and the "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal " for the outstanding successes achieved in the All-Union Socialist Competition, the labor prowess shown in the fulfillment of plans and socialist obligations to increase the production and sale of agricultural products to the state in 1977." She was honored with a televised congratulations from television channel in March 2012.