Praskovia Nikitichna Angelina

Pasha Angelina

Praskovya (Pascha) Nikititschna Angelina ( Russian Прасковья (Паша) Никитична Ангелина * December 30, 1912 ^{. Jul} / 12. January 1913 ^greg. In Starobeschewo ; † 21st January 1959 in Moscow ) was a Soviet tractor driver and Stalin Prize winner .

Life

Angelina came from a Greek family who immigrated to Starobeschewo with other Greek families from Crimea in the late 18th century . Her father was a servant and her mother whitewashed huts. Angelina spoke Greek and local Turkish .

In 1929 Angelina was one of the first women to complete her training as a tractor driver and worked in the Starobeschewo machine-tractor station . In 1933 she organized and directed a women's tractor brigade there. In 1935 she was one of the masters of agricultural work who met in a conference with party and state representatives in the Moscow Kremlin . There she promised 10 more women's tractor brigades. In 1937 she became a member of the CPSU . By over-fulfilling the plan , it became a symbol of the technical education of Soviet women workers. Thanks to her social position and her popularity, she was not a victim of the NKVD persecution of the Greeks in 1937–1938. In 1938 she signed the appeal with the slogan 100,000 girlfriends on the tractors! . She graduated from the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy in Moscow in 1940.

During the German-Soviet war Angelina worked in the evacuation in Aqsai district as a tractor driver in the fields. After the war she returned to Starobershevo. In 1948 her book about the people of the kolkhoz fields was published. She was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and a delegate at the CPSU congresses.

As a result of her constant contact with engine oil and diesel fuel , Angelina died of cirrhosis of the liver in Moscow. She was buried in Starobeschewo. There a street was named after her, a museum was opened and a bronze bust was erected.

Angelina's sisters and brothers were tractor drivers too. Her husband was a party official, was seriously wounded in the war and died in 1947.

Honors, prizes

Order of Lenin (1935, 1947, 1954)
Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1939)
Stalin Prize III. Class (1946)
Hero of Socialist Labor (1947, 1958)

Individual evidence

↑ Chronos: Ангелина Паша (Прасковья Никитична) (accessed January 3, 2020).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Landeshelden: Ангелина Прасковья Никитична (accessed on January 3, 2020).
^ Sergei Tretyakov: Nine Girls . In: Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917–1953 . Indiana University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-253-32893-4 , pp. 218 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Chronos: Трактор и судьба (accessed on January 3, 2020).
↑ Про затвердження списку пам'ятників мистецтва, історії та археології Української РСР (accessed January 3, 2020).

personal data
SURNAME	Angelina, Praskowja Nikitichna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ангелина, Прасковья Никитична (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet tractor driver and Stalin Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH	January 12, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Starobeschewo
DATE OF DEATH	January 21, 1959
Place of death	Moscow

[1] Chronos: Ангелина Паша (Прасковья Никитична) (accessed January 3, 2020).

[land-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Landeshelden: Ангелина Прасковья Никитична (accessed on January 3, 2020).

[3] Sergei Tretyakov: Nine Girls . In: Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917–1953 . Indiana University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-253-32893-4 , pp. 218 .

[chron3-4] Chronos: Трактор и судьба (accessed on January 3, 2020).

[5] Про затвердження списку пам'ятників мистецтва, історії та археології Української РСР (accessed January 3, 2020).