Valentina Dimitrieva
{{Short description|Russian politician}}
{{Family name hatnote|Dmitrievna|Dimitrieva|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Valentina Dimitrieva
| native_name = Валентина Дмитриева
| native_name_lang = ru
| birth_name = Valentina Dmitrievna Dimitrieva
| birth_date = 16/25 September 1937
| birth_place = {{ill|Askhva|ce|Асхва|cv|Aслă Асхва Пикшик|ru|Асхва|tt|Асхва|uk|Асхва}}, Kanashsky District, Chuvash ASSR, Russian SFSR
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|02|18|1937|09|df=y}}
| death_place = Askhva, Kanashsky District, Chuvashia, Russia
| occupation = Farm worker
| years_active = 1952–1993
| children = 1
| awards = Medal "For Labour Valour"
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Hero of Socialist Labour
Order of Lenin
{{ill|"Hammer and Sickle" gold medal|az|"Oraq və Çəkic" medalı|ba|«Ураҡ һәм Сүкеш» миҙалы|be|Медаль «Серп і Молат»|ka|ნამგალი და ურო (მედალი)|pl|Złoty Medal "Sierp i Młot"|ru|Медаль «Серп и Молот»|tr|"Orak ve Çekiç" Madalyası|tt|«Урак һәм Чүкеч» медале|uk|Медаль «Серп і Молот»}}
Medal "For Transforming the Non-Black Earth of the RSFSR"
}}
Valentina Dmitrievna Dimitrieva ({{langx|ru|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 {{ill|All-Union Organization of War and Labour Veterans|ru|Всероссийская общественная организация ветеранов (пенсионеров) войны, труда, Вооружённых Сил и правоохранительных органов|uk|Всеросійська громадська організація ветеранів (пенсіонерів) війни, праці, Збройних Сил та правоохоронних органів}} 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 {{ill|"Hammer and Sickle" gold medal|az|"Oraq və Çəkic" medalı|ba|«Ураҡ һәм Сүкеш» миҙалы|be|Медаль «Серп і Молат»|ka|ნამგალი და ურო (მედალი)|pl|Złoty Medal "Sierp i Młot"|ru|Медаль «Серп и Молот»|tr|"Orak ve Çekiç" Madalyası|tt|«Урак һәм Чүкеч» медале|uk|Медаль «Серп і Молот»}} and the Medal "For Transforming the Non-Black Earth of the RSFSR".
Biography
Between 16 and 25 September 1937,{{cite web|last=Kuzovatov|first=Sergey|title=Димитриева Валентина Димитриевна|trans-title=Dimitrieva Valentina Dimitrievna|url=https://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=26263|publisher={{ill|Homeland heroes|be|Героі краіны (інтэрнэт-сайт)|hy|Երկրի հերոսներ (կայք)|ru|Герои страны}}|language=ru|access-date=29 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230094225/http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=26263|archive-date=30 December 2019}} Dimitrieva was born in the village of {{ill|Askhva|ce|Асхва|cv|Aслă Асхва Пикшик|ru|Асхва|tt|Асхва|uk|Асхва}}, Kanashsky District,{{cite encyclopedia|last=Shornikov|first=A. M.|title=Димитриева Валентина Димитриевна|trans-title=Dimitrieva Valentina Dimitrievna|url=http://enc.cap.ru/?t=prsn&lnk=2513|encyclopedia={{ill|Chuvash encyclopedia|cv|Чăваш энциклопедийĕ|ru|Чувашская энциклопедия|uk|Чуваська енциклопедія}}|language=ru|date=|access-date=29 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201132916/http://enc.cap.ru/?t=prsn&lnk=2513|archive-date=1 December 2021}} Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (today Chuvashia).{{cite web|title=Димитриева Валентина Димитриевна|trans-title=Dimitrieva Valentina Dimitrievna|url=http://www.nbchr.ru/People_work/html/D/038_dimitrieva.htm|publisher={{ill|National Library of the Chuvash Republic|az|Çuvaş Respublikası Milli Kitabxanası|cv|Чăваш Республикин Наци библиотеки|it|Biblioteca nazionale della Repubblica Ciuvascia|ru|Национальная библиотека Чувашской Республики}}|language=ru|access-date=29 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221030082250/http://www.nbchr.ru/People_work/html/D/038_dimitrieva.htm|archive-date=30 October 2022}} as a Chuvash national into a peasant family. Following her graduating from the seventh grade of the Bol'shebikshikhskaya Sosh Im. Shurika,{{cite web|title=Димитриева Валентина Димитриевна|trans-title=Dimitrieva Valentina Dimitrievna|url=https://old-kanash.cap.ru/sitemap.aspx?id=2487421|publisher=Kanashsky District|language=ru|access-date=29 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221030082341/https://old-kanash.cap.ru/sitemap.aspx?id=2487421|archive-date=30 October 2022}} which meant she had not completed her secondary education,{{cite encyclopedia|title=Димитриева Валентина Димитриевна|trans-title=Dimitrieva Valentina Dimitrievna|url=http://supsov.narod.ru/HTML/D601.HTML|publisher=Supsov|language=ru|access-date=29 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203122129/http://supsov.narod.ru/HTML/D601.HTML|archive-date=3 February 2020}} she began working as a collective farmer on the Red Flame collective farm in Kanash. In 1953, Dimitrieva relocated to the Ashvin field-breeding brigade and worked as an ordinary collective farmer, groom, calf. During a movement to unite the collective farms in the late 1950s, she was attached to work at the Motor Bolishebikshih collective farm, Kanashsky District, Chuvash ASSR in a group of 90 people in which she worked as a calf.
Dimitrieva began working as a milkmaid in 1963 following her taking on a greater amount of obligations to catch up to the increase the yield of milk of livestock breeders working on the Karmameev farm. She was one of the workers who brought up mechanisation of the farm to increase performance, such as the green conveyor system, the milking of cows, the camping of livestock in the summer, fodder yeast.{{cite news|title=Республика простилась с Героем Социалистического труда Валентиной Дмитриевой|trans-title=The Republic said goodbye to the Hero of Socialist Labor Valentina Dmitrieva|url=https://agro.cap.ru/news/2019/02/20/respublika-prostilasj-s-geroem-socialisticheskogo-t|publisher=Ministry of Agriculture of the Chuvash Republic|language=ru|date=20 February 2019|access-date=29 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203122129/http://agro.cap.ru/news/2019/02/20/respublika-prostilasj-s-geroem-socialisticheskogo-t|archive-date=3 February 2020}} Dmitrieva extracted {{convert|300|kg|lb}} of milk from each of the farm's cow per year from 1964, overtaking the milkmaids from Karmamey. She began and organised an All-Union competition with the livestock breeders of the Peremoga collective farm in Ukraine's Kherson Oblast in the early 1970s and demanded the board of her farm's collective to mechanise its equipment, increasing the productivity of the cows in her group by more than one-third. Dimitrieva retired in 1993.
She was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Dimitrieva was a delegate of the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1957. From 1989 to 1991, she served as an elected deputy of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union from the {{ill|All-Union Organization of War and Labour Veterans|ru|Всероссийская общественная организация ветеранов (пенсионеров) войны, труда, Вооружённых Сил и правоохранительных органов|uk|Всеросійська громадська організація ветеранів (пенсіонерів) війни, праці, Збройних Сил та правоохоронних органів}} and was a member of the All-Russian Council of War and Labour Veterans.
Personal life
Dimitrieva resided in Askhva with her son and his family. She died in Askhva on 18 February 2019.
Awards
On 22 March 1967, Dimitrieva was decorated with the Medal "For Labour Valour" and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour on 8 April 1971. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet issued a decree honouring her with the title of Hero of Socialist Labour with the Order of Lenin and the {{ill|"Hammer and Sickle" gold medal|az|"Oraq və Çəkic" medalı|ba|«Ураҡ һәм Сүкеш» миҙалы|be|Медаль «Серп і Молат»|ka|ნამგალი და ურო (მედალი)|pl|Złoty Medal "Sierp i Młot"|ru|Медаль «Серп и Молот»|tr|"Orak ve Çekiç" Madalyası|tt|«Урак һәм Чүкеч» медале|uk|Медаль «Серп і Молот»}} on 6 September 1973 "for the great successes achieved in the All-Union Socialist Competition, and the labor prowess shown in fulfilling the obligations assumed to increase the production and procurement of livestock products in the winter period of 1972–1973." Dimitrieva received the title of Honored Worker of Agriculture of the Chuvash ASSR in 1981 and was issued a Labour Veteran certificate in 1995. She was named an Honorary Citizen of the Kanash District in 2016. Dimitrieva was also a recipient of the Medal "For Transforming the Non-Black Earth of the RSFSR".
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Category:20th-century Russian women
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Category:Soviet women in politics
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Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Category:Heroes of Socialist Labour