Alina Vedmid

Alina Vedmid
Аліна Петрівна Ведмідь
People's Deputy of Ukraine
3rd convocation
In office
12 May 1998 – 14 May 2002
People's Deputy of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union
In office
1989–1991
Personal details
Born
Alina Petrovna Vedmid

(1940-06-28)28 June 1940
Saliv Khutor, Myronivka Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
Died4 September 2008(2008-09-04) (aged 68)
Salivonki [be; ce; ro; ru; uk; zh], Vasylkiv Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
Cause of deathPedestrian road incident
Political partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union
Communist Party of Ukraine
Spouse
Anatoly Panasovich Vedmid
(died)
Children2
Alma materUkrainian Agricultural Academy
OccupationAgronomist
Politician
AwardsOrder of the Badge of Honour
Hero of Socialist Labour
Order of Lenin
"Hammer and Sickle" gold medal [az; ba; be; ka; pl; ru; tr; tt; uk]

Alina Petrovna Vedmid (Ukrainian: Аліна Петрівна Ведмідь; 28 June 1940 – 4 September 2008) was a Ukrainian politician and agronomist who was head of the "Zorya" collective farm in the Kyiv Oblast. She worked at the Peremoga collective farm in the Bohuslav Raion 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. She was an elected deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic that lasted from 1984 to 1989 and in the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991 and in the third convocation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from 1998 to 2002. Vedmid was decorated with the Order of the Badge of Honour and the title of Hero of Socialist Labour with the Order of Lenin award and the "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal [az; ba; be; ka; pl; ru; tr; tt; uk].