Serafima Ilyinichna Gopner (; 1880–1966) was a Bolshevik politician, a

Hero of Socialist Labor The Hero of Socialist Labour () was an honorific title in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries from 1938 to 1991. It represented the highest degree of distinction in the USSR and was awarded for exceptional achievements in Soviet ...

(1960), and a Doctor of Historical Sciences (1934). Beginning in 1903, she was a member, and then a secretary of the Bolshevik party in

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. In 1910–1917, she lived in emigration. From September 9 to October 23, 1918, she was the secretary of the

Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine The Communist Party of Ukraine (, КПУ, ''KPU''; ) was the founding and ruling political party of the Ukrainian SSR operated as a republican branch (union republics) of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).Pyrih, R. Communist Par ...

. In 1928-1938 she worked for the

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. Beginning in 1945, she was an employee of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism in Moscow.Andrzej Chojnowski, Jan Jacek Bruski, ''Ukraina'', Wydawnictwo TRIO, Warszawa 2006, p. 378,

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