Background
Galina Mitrofanovna Umyvakina was born on October 15, 1946, in Moscow, Russian Federation.
Galina Mitrofanovna Umyvakina
Voronezh State University
Galina Mitrofanovna Umyvakina was born on October 15, 1946, in Moscow, Russian Federation.
Galina Mitrofanovna graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Voronezh State University (1969), graduate school in the Department of Soviet Literature of Voronezh State University (1975).
Galina Mitrofanovna was a lecturer in the Voronezh Regional Correspondence Secondary School (1969-1970) and in a preparatory department of the Voronezh Technological Institute (1970-1972, 1975-1986). Since 1986 Galina Mitrofanovna has been working in professional literary work. She was the chairman of the Voronezh branch of the Union of Russian Writers (since 1991), a member (since 1998), a secretary (since 2007) of the board of the Union of Russian Writers, a member of various city and regional cultural and public organizations.e Union of Russian Writers, a member of various city and regional cultural and public organizations.
Galina Mitrofanovna was awarded Certificates of Honor of the administrations of Voronezh and Voronezh Region, the badge "For Merits" of the Department of Culture of the Voronezh Region (2006), the Honorary Sign "Gratitude from the Land of Voronezh" of the Government of the Voronezh Region (2011), Letters of Appreciation of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, and the Certificate of Merit of the Union of Journalists of the Russian Federation ( 2007), a medal of the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation "100th Birth Anniversary of the Great Russian Writer, Nobel Prize Laureate M.A.Sholokhov" (2005).
