Padalko Ludmyla  Padalko Lyudmila (; * March 8, 1949) is a Ukrainian doctor, obstetrician-gynecologist, and chief doctor at the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Perinatal Center (from 1990), Honored Doctor of Ukraine (2001), Candidate of Medicine (2002). Lyudmila was born March 8, 1949 in the village of Tersyanka Novomykolaivka Raion Zaporizhia Oblast. Father, Kyi Ivan, worked as a mathematics teacher at a local school. Mother, Galina, – head of a grocery store. In 1964–1965 Lyudmila with her parents and sister Nina moved to district center. In the new school she met Vadim, her future husband. Thanks to the attitudes and perseverance of her father as a teacher, Lyudmila graduated from Novonikolayevsk Secondary School with a gold medal in 1966. She loved biology and chemistry, dreamed of becoming a doctor. After graduation, she worked in the central regional library, which gave her the opportunity to thoroughly prepare for the entrance exams to the university. In 1967, after having passed an excellent exam in chemistry, she entered Voroshilovgrad Medical Institute at the medical faculty. She kept correspondence and telephone conversations with Vadim. She came home each summer and spent time with her future husband, who studied at Dnipropetrovsk Medical Institute. In 1970, they decided to marry, and a year later Lyudmila transferred to Dnipropetrovsk. In 1971, her son, Gennady, was born, and she combined his upbringing with education. In 1972, Vadim graduated from the university and went to work in the direction of Sinelnik. In 1973, Lyudmila also graduated from the medical institute, received the specialty "general medicine" and the qualification obstetrician-gynecologist. After high school, she underwent an internship in Dnipropetrovsk City Hospital No.9, at the end of which she immediately started working at Synelnykove Central Regional Hospital as an obstetrician-gynecologist, where her husband already worked for a year as a therapist. Later, she received the position of deputy chief physician for the medical part. It was difficult to work, but it was precisely these years that Lyudmila Ivanovna considered the time of her becoming a professional doctor. During the years of work at the post of deputy in the villages of the district, maternity hospitals at the former collective farms were liquidated, a regional female consultation was opened, and blood donation was actively developed.