About: Valentina Dimitrieva

Valentina Dmitrievna Dimitrieva (Russian: Валентина Дмитриевна Дмитриева; 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 and the Medal "For Transforming the Non-Black Earth of the RS