Valentina Khmel
Valentina Petrovna Khmel is a Russian painter-plasterer and politician. She was a painter-plasterer and later formeman of finishers at the Construction and Assembly Department No. 5 of the Angarsk Construction Department of the Ministry of Medium Machine-Building in the Irkutsk Oblast. Khmel was an people's deputy of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from 1989 to 1991. Khmel was a recipient of all three classes of the Order of Labour Glory.
Biography
Khmel was born on 28 February 1939 in Chita Oblast. During her youth, she moved to Angarsk in 1955. Khmel attended Vocational School No. 10, graduating in 1956. She began working at the Construction and Assembly Department No. 5 of the Angarsk Construction Department of the Ministry of Medium Machine-Building in the Irkutsk Oblast as a painter and plasterer. In 1976, she was appointed foreman of finishers at the facility and joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as a member. Khmel provided team with insiration to exceed their objectives ahead of their published schedules.She served three convocations as a deputy of the Irkutsk Regional Council as well as the Angarsk City Council and as a member of the Bureau of the Irkutsk Regional Committee of the CPSU. Khmel was a Delegate to the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1986. Between 1989 and 1991, she was a people's deputy of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was elected to serve as a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Khmel was part of one of the first government delegations of the congress to travel to the United States in Kingsburg, California; she was the first resident of Angarsk to visit the United States. From 1990, she was a member of the Union Council Commission on Labour, Prices and Social Policy.