Lyudmila Byakova

Lyudmila Stepanovna Byakova (Russian: Людмила Степановна Бякова; born 23 March 1946) is a Soviet and Russian seamstress-minder who worked at the Kirovo-Chepetsk garment factory and at the Kurgan Industrial Sewing Association. She supported an initiative by the Leningrad seamstress Chistyakova's "Five-year plan – two personal five-year plans.", finishing 21 annual assignments and training 41 young drivers over the course of a decade. Byakova led the All-Russian School of Professional Excellence and gave her experience of advanced methods of work to 24 seamstresses from various garment factories in the Soviet Union. She was an elected deputy of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union from women's groups from 1989 to 1991 and was on the Committee for Women, Family Protection, Motherhood and Childhood. Byakova was a delegate at the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1986 and at the 16th Congress of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. She has been awarded the Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"; the Order of the Red Banner of Labour; the USSR State Prize; the Order of the October Revolution and the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the Order of Lenin.