Valentyna Shevchenko

Valentyna Semenivna Shevchenko (; 12 March 1935 – 3 February 2020) was the Chairperson of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR.

Biography Shevchenko was born the daughter of a miner, Semen Solianyk, in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Soviet Union. In 1960, she started working as Secretary of the Dzerzhinsky District within Kryvyi Rih, which she did until 1962. In 1972, she became a Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences.

From September 1997 on she was the honorary president of the National Fund of social defence of mothers and children: "Ukraine – children". Also, from 2002, she was Head of the Congress of Business Women of Ukraine. It had been known she was ill since at least 2017, when she attended the funeral of Borys Oliynyk a noted poet and later Communist politician.