Pavlyna Shapovalenko
{{Short description|Ukrainian milk machine operator (1949–2020)}}
{{family name hatnote|Mykhailivna|Shapovalenko|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Pavlyna Shapovalenko
|honorific_prefix=Hero of Ukraine
|honorific_suffix={{tooltip|OS|Order of the State (HOU)}}
| birth_name = Pavlyna Shapovalenko
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1949|09|11|df=y}}
| birth_place = {{ill|Vonihove|uk|Вонігове}}, Tiachiv, Zakarpattia Oblast
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|04|27|1949|09|11|df=y}}
| occupation = Milk machine operator
| years_active = 1963–2020
| awards = {{Plainlist|
}}
Pavlyna Shapovalenko ({{langx|uk|Шаповаленко Павлина Михайлівна}}; 11 September 1949 – 27 April 2020) was a Ukrainian milk machine operator who worked in Tiachiv later the Sumy Raion. She worked on state farms during her life and worked to maximise productivity of the animals on the farm and collected a large amount of milk from cows. Shapovalenko received the government issued Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1973, the Order of Lenin in 1977, and was made a Hero of Ukraine in 2001.
Biography
On 11 September 1949, Shapovalenko was born in the village of {{ill|Vonihove|uk|Вонігове}}, in the district of Tiachiv,{{cite web|title=Шаповаленко Павлина Михайлівна (11.09.1949 – 27.04.2020)|trans-title=Shapovalenko Pavlyna Mykhailivna (September 11, 1949 – April 27, 2020)|url=http://www.ukrgeroes.com.ua/ShapovalenkoPM.html|publisher=Heroes of Ukraine|language=uk|access-date=15 March 2022|archive-date=January 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200110142855/http://www.ukrgeroes.com.ua/ShapovalenkoPM.html|url-status=live}} Zakarpattia Oblast.{{cite web|title=Шаповаленко Павлина Михайлівна|trans-title=Shapovalenko Pavlina Mykhaylivna|url=https://who-is-who.ua/main/page/suzirya/19/443|work=Golden Constellation of Ukraine|publisher=Who is Who|language=uk|access-date=15 March 2022|archive-date=15 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220315110006/https://who-is-who.ua/main/page/suzirya/19/443|url-status=live}} She graduated from the Vonigiv eight-year school in 1964. According to her, she became interested in science after reading about record-setting milkmaid Maria Savchenko in a newspaper. Spahovalenko began working at the state farm called Ilyich's Testament as a milkmaid when she was fourteen years old.{{cite web|title=Шаповаленко Павлина Михайлівна|trans-title=Shapovalenko Pavlyna Mykhailivna|url=https://minagro.gov.ua/geroyi-nezalezhnoyi-ukrayini-v-agrarnij-galuzi/shapovalenko-pavlina-mihajlivna|publisher=Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine|language=uk|date=24 August 2021|access-date=15 March 2022|archive-date=3 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303231552/https://minagro.gov.ua/geroyi-nezalezhnoyi-ukrayini-v-agrarnij-galuzi/shapovalenko-pavlina-mihajlivna|url-status=live}} During this time, she became well known in the local area and achieved the record of becoming the first milkmaid to extract {{convert|6500|L}} of milk from a single cow per year.{{cite web|title=Павлина Шаповаленко|trans-title=Pavlina Shapovalenko|url=https://latifundist.com/dosye/shapovalenko-pavlina-mihajlovna|publisher=Latifundist.com|language=uk|access-date=15 March 2022|archive-date=23 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123052843/https://latifundist.com/dosye/shapovalenko-pavlina-mihajlovna|url-status=live}} Shapovalenko would later work on the Verkhovyna state farm in the Vonihiv branch between 1966 and 1969.
She relocated to the village of {{ill|Velyki Vilmy|uk|Великі Вільми}} in the Sumy Raion, located in the Sumy Oblast in 1969. Shapovalenko had planned to live in the village on a seasonal basis but she remained there for the rest of her life. She was employed as a milking machine operator on the dairy farm of the collective farm called "May Day" (today the agricultural production cooperative "Agrofirm" May Day). Shapovalenko assisted in helping the farm to raise heifers for the group she worked with and was able to milk a firstborn. She worked to maximise the productivity of the animals on the farm. She was one of the first people in the Sumy Raion to collect {{convert|5000|kg|lb}} then {{convert|6000|kg|lb}} of milk from cows annually. In 1973, Shapovlaneko received the government issued Order of the Red Banner of Labour and the Order of Lenin four years later. She milked a total of {{convert|184168|kg|lb}} as well as {{convert|6572|kg|lb}} from a single cow in 2000. Shapovlaneko was made a Hero of Ukraine by president Leonid Kuchma in November 2001 "For many years of selfless work in agriculture,
the achievement of the highest rates in the region on milk yield".{{cite web|title=Про присвоєння звання Герой України Указ Президента України від 13.11.2001 № 1075/2001|trans-title=About conferring the title of Hero of Ukraine Decree of the President of Ukraine of November 13, 2001 № 1075/2001|url=https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/cgi-bin/laws/main.cgi?nreg=1075%2F2001#Text|publisher=Verkhovna Rada|date=13 November 2001|access-date=15 March 2022|archive-date=15 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220315105952/https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/cgi-bin/laws/main.cgi?nreg=1075%2F2001#Text|url-status=live}}
During her life, she had collected approximately {{convert|3600|t}} of milk. On three occasions, she was elected to serve as a deputy on the regional council. Upon her retiring, Shapovlaneko opened a school for milkmaids, and attracts breeders from not just the Sumy Raion but also from other neighbouring districts and obalsts. She was the organiser and honorary president of a club called six thousand. She was married to the animal husbandry worker Mikhail Ivanovich, with whom she had two children. Shapovalenko died on 27 April 2020 and was buried in the village of Velyki Vilmy.
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Category:People from Zakarpattia Oblast
Category:20th-century Ukrainian women
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Category:Ukrainian women farmers
Category:Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour