Praskovya "Pasha" Nikitichna Angelina (Russian: Праско́вья Ники́тична Анге́лина; December 30 [O.S. January 12] 1912 – 21 January 1959) was a Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, udarnik and Stakhanovite at the time of the first Five-Year-Plans. She was recognized as one of the first female tractor-operators in the USSR and became a celebrity as a symbol of the technically educated female Soviet worker.
Praskovya "Pasha" Nikitichna Angelina (Russian: Праско́вья Ники́тична Анге́лина; December 30 [O.S. January 12] 1912 – 21 January 1959) was a Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, udarnik and Stakhanovite at the time of the first Five-Year-Plans. She was recognized as one of the first female tractor-operators in the USSR and became a celebrity as a symbol of the technically educated female Soviet worker.
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Early life
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.
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Career 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…
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Death
She died of cirrhosis in Moscow in 1959.
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Awards
twice a Hero of Socialist Labour (1947, 1958)
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three Orders of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
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Sources
Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 2nd edition.
М. Голышев. Первая трактористка // Человек трудом славен. М., 1981.
Ангелина Прасковья Никитична // Великая Отечественная война 1941 — 1945. Энциклопедия / редколл., гл. ред. М. М. Козлов. М., Советская энциклопедия, 1985. стр.49
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Interview with Angelina's daughter — (Russian)
'Pasha Angelina' — A series of poems about 'Pasha' Angelina in Mariupol Greek (with translation into standard modern Greek) by Leontij Kyrjakov, giving account of Angelina's life [Archive]
