15 June 2026
(PHOTO: Bilyayiv City Council)
Valentina Dovzhenko, an honorary resident of the city of Bilyayivka in the Odesa region, passed away on June 15 at the age of 84.
This was reported by the press service of the Bilyayivka City Council.
"From 1960 until her retirement, Valentina Tymofiyivna worked as the forewoman of the vegetable-growing brigade at the 'Rodina' state farm," the city council reported.
Valentina Dovzhenko also served as a deputy in the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) for 14 years. In total, she served in three convocations (VIII–XX), that is, from 1971 to 1985.
Valentyna Doroshenko was born in Bilyayivka in 1942 and graduated from agricultural school in 1960. In the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR, she served on the Committee on Nature Conservation. She had been retired in recent years.
The Supreme Council of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was the highest organ of state power and the sole legislative body of the former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR). Formally, the Council was directly elected by the citizens of the Ukrainian SSR over the course of eleven convocations on the basis of universal, equal, and direct suffrage. Starting in 1938, one deputy was elected per 100,000 people, and starting in 1978, 650 people’s deputies were elected from a bloc of communists and non-party members. In practice, elections were held under the strict control of the ruling and, at that time, sole Communist Party. The term of office was four years, and from 1975—five.
Yevhen Larionov, a former artist, cartoonist, and computer graphics specialist who returned to Odesa from Europe in 2024, died on June 1 at 7:55 p.m.
Earlier,Leonid Kondratyuk, a Distinguished Doctor of Ukraine,anhonorarycitizenof the city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi in the Odesa region, and a five-term deputy, died on the morning of May 25.
The oldest resident of Kiliya in the Odesa region,poetNina Chernobikina, died on April 18 at the age of 104.
Кирило Бойко