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Praskov’ya Nikitichna ANGELINA Edit Profile

Tractor driver

Praskov’ya ANGELINA, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Tractor driver. head of tractor drivers’ team, Staro-Beshevo machine and tractor station,Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic. three Orders of Lenin; Order of the Red Banner of Labor; Stalin Prize (1946); twice Hero of Socialist Labor. Communist Party member from 1937.

Background

ANGELINA, Praskov’ya was born on January 12, 1912 in Staro-Beshevo.

Education

1940 graduate Timiryazcv Agric Academy.

Career

1928 joined StaroBeshevo agric artel. 1929 studied at tractor drivers' school. Initiated special courses for training women tractor drivers.

1935 attended 2nd All-Union Congress of Kolkhoz Shock-Workers, also a Moscow conference of specialists in increasing crop yields. 1938 appealed to Soviet women to train as tractor drivers. During World War 2 led a team of female tractor drivers at a machine and tractor station in the Kaz Soviet Socialist Republic.

After World War 2 headed a tractor drivers’ team at the Staro-Beshevo machine and tractor station, Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic. Deputy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet of l-5th convocations. Elected member, Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Ukraine at 14th-19th Ukraine Party Congresses.

Membership

Communist Party member from 1937.

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Awards

  • Three Orders of Lenin. Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Stalin Prize (1946); twice Hero of Socialist Labor.