Valentyna Shevchenko (politician)

Valentyna Semenivna Shevchenko (Ukrainian: Валентина Семенівна Шевченко; born 12 March 1935 in Kryvy Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Soviet Union) was the Chairman of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR.

Biography

She was born in a family of miner Semen Solianyk.

From 1975 to 1985, Shevchenko is a deputy chairperson of the Supreme Council Presidium of the Ukrainian SSR. After the death of Oleksiy Vatchenko, she was 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.

Since September 1997, she is the honorary president of the National Fund of social defence of mothers and children: "Ukraine – children".

In a sociological poll conducted in 2004 , she was among the five most important women of Ukraine with Princess Olga, Lesya Ukrainka, Yulia Tymoshenko and Yana Klochkova.

See also

• President of Ukraine
• Verkhovna Rada

External links

• An interview of Valentyna Shevchenko (in Ukrainian)

Verkhovna Rada
Main topics	Chairman list Presidium 1938-1996 People's Deputy of Ukraine Committees Accounting Chamber Ombudsman National Parliamentary Library Verkhovna Rada building
Members	Ukraine 1st members, 1990–94 2nd members, 1994–98 3rd members, 1998–2002 4th members, 2002–06 5th members, 2006–07 6th members, 2007–12 7th members, 2012–14 8th members, 2014–19 Ukainian SSR 1st members, 1938–1947 2nd members, 1947–1951 3rd members, 1951–1955 4th members, 1955–1959 5th members, 1959–1963 6th members, 1963–1967 7th members, 1967–1971 8th members, 1971–1975 9th members, 1975–1980 10th members, 1980–1985 11th members, 1985–1990
List of chairmen	Ukraine Ivan Plyushch Oleksandr Moroz Oleksandr Tkachenko Ivan Plyushch Volodymyr Lytvyn Oleksandr Moroz Arseniy Yatsenyuk Oleksandr Lavrynovych (acting) Volodymyr Lytvyn Volodymyr Rybak Oleksandr Turchynov Volodymyr Groysman Andriy Parubiy Ukrainian SSR Mykhailo Burmystenko Oleksandr Korniychuk Pavlo Tychyna Oleksandr Korniychuk Mykhailo Bilyi Kostiantyn Sytnyk Platon Kostiuk Volodymyr Ivashko Leonid Kravchuk Presidium Leonid Korniets Mykhailo Hrechukha Demyan Korotchenko Oleksandr Lyashko Ivan Hrushetsky Oleksiy Vatchenko Valentyna Shevchenko Volodymyr Ivashko Leonid Kravchuk Ivan Plyushch Oleksandr Moroz
Historic predecessors	Central Council of Ukraine All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets Central Executive Committee of Ukraine Ukrainian Constituent Assembly never realized) Labor Congress of Ukraine Soim Carpatho-Ukraine Ukrainian National Council Council of Republic
See also	Politics of Ukraine Political parties in Ukraine Elections in Ukraine