Elena Lagadinova, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Bulgarian partisan
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Place of Birth: Razlog, Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria
About Elena Lagadinova
- Elena Lagadinova (Bulgarian: ????? ????????? ??????????, May 9, 1930 – October 29, 2017) was a Bulgarian agronomist, genetic engineer, and politician. During the Second World War, Lagadinova contributed to the Bulgarian resistance against Nazi occupation, earning the nickname “????????” or “The Amazon.” She was the younger female fighter in Bulgaria, beginning her contributions to the war effort at 11 years old and actively fighting at age 14.Following the Allied victory in 1945, she pursued a PhD in agrobiology, before serving as a research scientist at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
- There, she developed a new strain of wheat, Triticale, which helped to boost the productivity of collective farms.
- For this discovery, she was awarded the Order of Cyril and Methods by the Bulgarian Government.In 1968, Lagadinova accepted the position as Secretary of the Fatherland Front and President of the Committee of the Bulgarian Women's Movement.
- In these roles, she played a significant role in the creation and enforcement of legislation to benefit women in the workplace, including maternity leave laws.
- She was also a notable figure in global politics, working with other international activists to forge a coalition of national women's organisations, and becoming a member of the UN Institute for Training Women in 1985.She died on October 29, 2017, in a retirement facility in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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