Alina Petrovna Vedmid (; 28 June 1940 – 4 September 2008) was a Ukrainian politician and agronomist who was head of the "Zorya" collective farm in the

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. She worked at the Peremoga collective farm in the

Bohuslav Raion Bohuslav Raion () was a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center was the city of Bohuslav. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of ...

and was a laboratory assistant, technician-economist, engineer-economist at the Ukrainian Machine Testing Station. Vedmid was an economist and later chief economist of the collective farm "Dawn of Communism" in the

Vasylkiv Raion Vasylkiv Raion () was a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center was Vasylkiv which is incorporated separately as a town of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 ...

. She was an elected deputy of the

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that lasted from 1984 to 1989 and in the

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between 1989 and 1991 and in the third convocation of the

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of Ukraine from 1998 to 2002. Vedmid was decorated with the

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and the title of

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with the

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award and the .

Biography

On 28 June 1940, Vedmid was born to the electrician Pyotr Ivanovich Khilko and the cleaner Magi Maria Romanovna in the village of Saliv Khutor,

Myronivka Raion Myronivka Raion () was a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center was the city of Myronivka. The raion was abolished on 19 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions o ...

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. Following her graduation from school in 1957 to 1959, she worked as an agronomist at the Peremoga collective farm in the

, Kyiv Oblast and then worked as a labour training teacher at the Salivonkovsky Secondary School in the

, Kyiv Oblast between 1959 and 1961. Vedmid went on to become a laboratory assistant, technician-economist, engineer-economist at the Ukrainian Machine Testing Station, from 1961 to 1967. She graduated from the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy (today the

National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine The National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine () is a public agricultural university in Kyiv, Ukraine. Established in 1898, prior to 1992 the institution was named the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy (). From 1992 to 200 ...

) in absentia with a degree in agronomics in 1967. Vedmid was an economist and later chief economist of the collective farm "Dawn of Communism" in the village of , Vasylkiv Raion from 1967 to 1977. In 1977, she became the head of one of the largest farms in the Kyiv Oblast and became the chairperson of the board of the "Zorya" collective farm. The farm had up to of land and Vedmid sold 11 to 13 thousand tonnes of grain, 50 to 55 thousand tons of sugar beet (with an average yield of more than 500 centners per hectare) every year. It specialised in the cultivation of cattle and this enabled the farm to retain simultaneously more than 10,000 heads of young animals. of high-quality, cheap beef was shipped to the Darnytsky Meat Processing Plant, Kyiv Oblast and the village became gassified and saw telephone systems installed. In 1992, the farm became the agricultural production cooperative "Agrofirma" Zarya ", with Vedmid remaining its chairperson until March 1998 when she entered political office. She returned to the post upon leaving politics. Vedmid became a member of the

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in 1961. She served as an elected deputy at all levels such as at the village, district, regional council levels. Vedmid was a deputy from the 320 Obukhov constituency of the eleventh convocation of the

that lasted from 1984 to 1989. Between 1989 and 1991, she served as a deputy of the

from women's councils united by the , where she was on the Commission Issues of Labour, Prices and Social Policy. From 12 May 1998 to 14 May 2002, Vedmid served as a deputy of the third convocation of the

of Ukraine, having been elected from the list of the

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. She was a member of the Committee on Social Policy and Labour. Vedmid was a member of the Presidium of the Women's Union of Ukraine, and a member of the Supreme Council of the All-Ukrainian Union "Working Women for the Future of Children of Ukraine". She unsuccessfully ran for reelection to the Verkhovna Rada as a member of the list of the Communist Party of Ukraine at the

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Personal life and death

Vedmid was married to Anatoly Panasovich Vedmid until his death in 1981. They had two children. On the morning of 4 September 2008, she had left her house and was crossing a road on Highway M05 to a car in the village of Salivonki, Vasylkiv Raion when a motorist struck her at high speed. The injuries she sustained resulted in her death at the scene prior to the arrival of an ambulance. The driver who caused her accident said they were blinded by the morning sun and was placed under arrest. Their car was impounded.

Awards

She was decorated with the

on 24 December 1976.

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, the President of the Soviet Union, issued a decree conferring Vedmid the title of

with the

award and the on 7 June 1990.

References

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