Galina Vladimirovna Semyonova

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Galina Vladimirovna Semenova ( Russian Галина Владимировна Семёнова * 24. August 1937 in Smolensk ; † 19th November 2017 ) was a Soviet journalist and politician of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the only woman besides Ekaterina Furtseva full member of the Politburo of the CPSU was.

Life

After attending school, she studied journalism at the Ivan Franko National University in Lviv and graduated in 1959. In addition , she obtained a doctorate in philosophy .

In 1963 she became head of department at Комсомольская искра (Komsomol-Funke) , the newspaper of the Komsomol youth association of the Ukrainian SSR , before she became a literary employee, department head and editor-in-chief of Комсомольская ( youth association ) , a magazine for young people. After all, she was editor-in-chief of Komsomol-Leben from 1974 to 1981 and then, after graduating from the Academy of Social Sciences of the USSR, changed between 1981 and 1990 as editor-in-chief of the magazine Крестьянка (country woman ) , a women's magazine founded in 1922 .

At the end of the 1980s she then increasingly took on political tasks and was a member of the People's Deputies Congress between 1989 and 1991 . In 1990 she not only became a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the CPSU , but on July 14, 1990 also Central Committee Secretary for Families, Women and Population Policy. In addition, on July 14, 1990, she also became a member of the Politburo of the CPSU, making it only the second full female member in the 74-year history of this body, after the former Minister of Culture Yekaterina Furzewa.

Galina Semjonowa was a member of the Central Committee Secretariat and the Politburo until these bodies were dissolved on August 24, 1991. During the time of the Soviet Union, she received several awards for her professional and political merits and received, among other things, the Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union and the Order of Friendship of Peoples .

After the collapse of communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, she was vice-chairman of the Atlantis Society , editor of magazines and vice-chairman of the Research Association Women and Development ( Женщины и развитие ).

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SURNAME Semyonova, Galina Vladimirovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Семёнова, Галина Владимировна (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet politician of the CPSU
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Smolensk
DATE OF DEATH 19th November 2017