Valentina Dimitrieva
Valentina Dmitrievna Dimitrieva 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 RSFSR".
Biography
Between 16 and 25 September 1937, Dimitrieva was born in the village of, Kanashsky District, Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. as a Chuvash national into a peasant family. Following her graduating from the seventh grade of the Bol'shebikshikhskaya Sosh Im. Shurika, which meant she had not completed her secondary education, 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. Dmitrieva extracted 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 and was a member of the All-Russian Council of War and Labour Veterans.