Career
She was Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic 1938-1947. Her office as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet nominally made her Head of the Republic. At some point she was known as the "Iron Lady".
Grekova started to work in a textile factory in Minsk in 1922, at the age of twelve.
From 1938 until 1947, she held the post of Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. This position nominally made her Head of the Republic. The post was created after a re-organization of the system and she was the first person appointed to lieutenant
During the Occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany, she was evacuated to Kazan. In 2002, a park in Minsk was named after her.
