Valentyna Semenivna Shevchenko ( uk, Валентина Семенівна Шевченко; 12 March 1935 – 3 February 2020) was the Chairperson of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet of the

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

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Shevchenko was born the daughter of a miner, Semen Solianyk, in

Kryvyi Rih Kryvyi Rih ( uk, Криви́й Ріг , lit. "Curved Bend" or "Crooked Horn"), also known as Krivoy Rog (Russian: Кривой Рог) is the largest city in central Ukraine, the 7th most populous city in Ukraine and the 2nd largest by area. Kr ...

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ( uk, Дніпропетро́вська о́бласть, translit=Dnipropetrovska oblast), also referred to as Dnipropetrovshchyna ( uk, Дніпропетро́вщина), is an oblast (province) of central-eastern Ukr ...

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

. From 1975 to 1985, Shevchenko was deputy chairperson of the Supreme Council Presidium of the

. After the death of

Oleksiy Vatchenko Oleksiy Fedosiyovych Vatchenko ( uk, Олексій Федосійович Ватченко; 25 February 1914 – 22 November 1984) was a Ukraine, Ukrainian and Soviet Union, Soviet politician, who served as the chairman of Presidium of the Verk ...

, she began acting as the chairwoman until her official appointment on petition of Volodymyr Shcherbitsky. In 1989 Shevchenko refused to sign prohibition against the

People's Movement of Ukraine The People's Movement of Ukraine ( uk, Народний Рух України, Narodnyi Rukh Ukrayiny) is a Ukrainian political party and first opposition party in Soviet Ukraine. Often it is simply referred to as the Movement ( uk, Рух, Ru ...

. From September 1997 on she was the honorary president of the National Fund of social defence of mothers and children: "Ukraine – children". Shevchenko died on 3 February 2020 at the age of 84.

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An interview of Valentyna Shevchenko (in Ukrainian)
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