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Alevtina Vasilyevna Fedulova (Russian: Алевтина Васильевна Федулова, born 14 April 1940) is a Russian political activist and former leader of the Soviet Women's Committee (later the Union of Women of Russia).
Alevtina Fedulova | |
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Алевтина Федулова | |
Deputy Chairman of the State Duma | |
In office 11 January 1994 – 17 December 1995 | |
Chairman | Ivan Rybkin |
Member of the 28th CPSU Central Committee | |
In office 1990–1991 | |
Secretary of the Komsomol Central Committee — Chairman of the Young Pioneers Central Council | |
In office 20 December 1971 – 18 May 1984 | |
Preceded by | Tamara Kutsenko |
Succeeded by | Lyudmila Shvetsova |
Personal details | |
Born | Alevtina Vasilyevna Timakova 14 April 1940 Elektrostal, Moscow Oblast, RSFSR, Soviet Union |
Political party | Women of Russia (1993–98) |
Other political affiliations | CPSU (1968–1991), Fatherland — All Russia (1998–2001) |
Fedulova was born on 14 April 1940, in Elektrostal, to an illiterate, yet intelligent, mother and a blacksmith father, who died when she was young. An excellent student, Fedulova wished to become a teacher as a child, but went to a local technical school linked to a local factory. Under pressure, Fedulova's mother paid the tuition to allow her to finish at the school, enabling her to take entrance exams in Moscow for a teacher training institute there.[1]
Fedulova married at age 20, while still studying at the institute, in 1960. Her husband was conscripted to military service around the time their son was born.[1] Upon graduation, she became a teacher of biology and chemistry.[1] She remained as a high school teacher for ten years.[2]
In 1963, Fedulova joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, about which she expressed some ambivalence.[1]
Fedulova later became head of the Pioneers[1] and was the executive secretary of the Soviet Peace Committee.[3] In 1987, she left her position to work for the Soviet Women's Committee full-time, and was elected vice-president of the organisation that same year.[4] From 1981 until 1986, she was a member of the CPSU's Auditing Commission, and was promoted to the Central Committee in 1990.[1]
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Fedulova's position of power within the CPSU made many feminists sceptical.[5][6] However, as leader of the Women of Russia bloc in 1993,[7] but not affiliated to any political party in particular, she became a member of the Duma.[1] This resulted in 8% of the Duma belonging to the Women of Russia bloc, allowing them to form their own official faction within the Russian government.[8]
Fedulova is married to her husband, a former deputy sports minister, and has one son and two grandchildren.[2]
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