Halyna Burkatska

Halyna Burkatska was born on December 4 (17) 1916 in the village of Heronymivka (now Cherkasy district of Cherkasy region) in a poor peasant family.[2] In 1932 she graduated from a seven-year school.

From 1933 to 1935 Burkatska worked as the secretary of the Heronymivka village council and the chairman of the Shelepukhiv village council of the Cherkasy district.[3] From 1935 to 1937 she was an instructor in the organizational and mass department of the Cherkasy District Council of Workers' Deputies of the Kyiv Region.

From 1937 to 1938 Burkatska studied at the Komsomol branch of the Artem Ukrainian Agricultural Communist University in Kharkiv.[2] Then she worked for the Komsomol in Solonitsy school of Kharkiv suburban district of Kharkiv region.

With the beginning of World War II Burkatska was evacuated to the Saratov region, where in 1941 - 1944 she worked on the collective farm "Sickle and Hammer" Pervomaisky district of Saratov region.

With the conquest of Ukraine in 1944 Burkatska returned to her native village. She worked as a foreman, from 1947 as a secretary of the party organization, and in 1949 - 1967 Burkatska was chairman of the board of the Khrushchev collective farm (later - "Soviet Ukraine") in the village of Heronymivka, Cherkasy region.

From 1946 Burkatska was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

In 1956 she graduated in absentia from the Faculty of Agronomy of the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy in Kyiv, where in 1967 she made a scientific report on improving the management system on the example of suburban collective farms. Based on the report, Burkatska was awarded the title of Candidate of Economic Sciences.[4]

Since 1968 Burkatska has been a senior lecturer at the Department of Labor Organization of the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy in Kyiv.[3] She was also a member of the editorial board of the magazine "Peasant".

Burkatska was a Delegate to the 19th and 22nd Congresses of the CPSU. At the 22nd Congress of the CPSU she was elected a member of the Central Audit Commission.[4]

Halyna Burkatska died on March 15, 2006. She was buried in Kyiv at the Baikove Cemetery.

• How we perform the main task in agriculture. K., 1953;
• On the way to a steep rise in the economy. M., 1964;
• Improving the management system. K., 1967.

• Hero of Socialist Labor (twice: May 18, 1951, February 26, 1958)
• Order of Lenin (May 18, 1951)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1948)
• Order of Princess Olga II (March 3, 2006) - for significant personal contribution to the socio-economic and cultural development of Ukraine, active public activity, many years of hard work[5]
• Order of Princess Olga III. (February 7, 2001) - for fruitful public activity, significant personal contribution to the development of the veterans' movement[6]
• Diploma of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR (February 16, 1966)

A bronze bust of Burkatska was installed in her native village Heronymivka. On September 10, 2008 a memorial plaque was unveiled at the house in the village of Heronymivka, where Burkatska lived.[7]