Kotova, Valentina Ivanovna

She was born on March 15, 1933 in a peasant family in the village of Gavrilovsky, Mikhailovsky District, Central Chernozem Region (now Zheleznogorsk District, Kursk Region ). Mother shortly before the Great Patriotic War left for Leningrad to earn money. Father died at the front, and his grandfather raised Valentine.

In 1948, she moved to Leningrad to her mother, who worked on the entire blockade at the Svetlana electric vacuum devices plant. Valentina entered the radio engineering school and at the same time - in the evening school . In 1951, having graduated from both institutions, she came to work as a traffic controller at the Vodtranspribor plant ^[1] .

In 1958 she entered the Svetlana factory, where a new workshop was opened for the production of the country's first semiconductor devices . She worked as a picker. Manufacturing technology and instrument design changed very quickly. I had to study the assembly techniques of germanium and silicon transistors , to rise from one complex stage to another, increasing my skill. Due to her organizational skills, she was appointed foreman.

Over 10 years, she led a team of more than 20 specialists of various professions. The team mastered and applied the principle of working for a single outfit with a coefficient of labor participation , the workers mastered related professions, introduced rationalization proposals and design ideas, and participated in the mentoring movement. Soon she was assigned to head the Council of the team leaders. She set the work so that the Council became a school of excellence in the city and introduced progressive methods into the activities of all teams, and her team firmly took a leading position. For the labor successes of the brigade in the VIII five-year plan, the brigadier was awarded the Order of the October Revolution .

In the X five-year plan, the brigade V. I. Kotova was instructed to produce integrated circuits . Kotova helped workers to master the technology and equipment, trained more than 30 young workers from vocational schools , many of whom then headed new brigades. With the development of progressive forms of labor organization, it became necessary to master the science of management and educating people. She persistently comprehended the intricacies of this matter, applied and fought for the development of new products, qualitatively increased the yield of finished products, in practice embodying the motto: "From the high quality of work of everyone to the high efficiency of the work of the team."

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 10, 1981, for outstanding achievements in the early fulfillment of tasks of the X Five-Year Plan, for innovation in the development of new technology, she was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Medal " Hammer and Sickle ."

She led a lot of public work, heading the Committee of Heroes of Socialist Labor and Full Knights of the Order of Labor Glory in January 2007 as part of the St. Petersburg Public Organization of Veterans (Retired, Disabled) War, Labor, Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies ^{[2] [3]} . She was a delegate to the Congress of Trade Unions, a member of the Regional Trade Union.

She lived in the Vyborg district of St. Petersburg. She died on August 4, 2016 at the 83rd year of her life ^[4] . Buried at the Theological Cemetery

• Kotova, Valentina Ivanovna (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• V.I. Kotova on the official portal of the Administration of St. Petersburg
• 80th anniversary of V.I. Kotova

• Heroes of Socialist Labor of the Leningrad Region