Pasha Angelina

Pasha Angelina studied at Russian State Agricultural University. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is creative and professional writing, prose and agriculture. Positions recorded include deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Distinctions recorded are Stalin Prize, 3rd degree, Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner of Labour and Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945".

• Name — Praskovya Angelina • Office — Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union • Term Start — 12 December 1937 • Term End — 21 January 1959 • Party — Communist Party of the Soviet Union • Born — December 30 1912 • Birthplace — Starobesheve, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire • Died — 21 January 1959 • Place of death — Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union • Awards — Hero of Socialist Labour (2) Stalin Prize Order of Lenin (2) Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Angelina was born in Starobesheve, into a Greek family of peasants. Her father was a farmhand and her mother whitewashed huts. In 1929, she started attending tractor-driving courses in her native oblast while also working at a dairy farm.

In 1933, she organized an all-female tractor team that was reported to have achieved 129% of the quota and thus to have ranked first among the tractor teams of the region. She was made a celebrity, placed prominently in the media and depicted on propaganda posters. Pasha’s rallying speeches at the February 1935 conferences of shock workers and Kolkhoz Shock Workers, along with his address at the Conference of Advanced Agricultural Workers in December 1935. In the same year, she was among the "Champions of Agricultural Labour" selected to hold a conference with the leaders of the Party and state in the Kremlin. At that conference, she officially promised to organize 10 more female tractor teams in her raion. In 1938 she signed an appeal entitled "One hundred thousand (female) friends - onto the tractor!" (Russian: "Сто тысяч подруг - на трактор!"). Women shouldering work with tractors made it possible for more men to be drafted into the Soviet Army before and during World War II. During the Second World War, Angelina studied agriculture in Moscow for two years and then worked as a brigade leader in the Kazakh SSR until the end of hostilities. After the war, she returned to work in the same function in Starobeshevo. She was elected into the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union in 1937, 1946 and 1950. In 1948, Angelina authored an autobiographical book, The People of the Kolkhoz Fields.

She died of cirrhosis in Moscow in 1959. Angelina was buried in her hometown of Starobesheve. Her grave is now listed as a historic monument of national significance of Ukraine.