Kachko (née Klebanova) Polina Lazarevna (09.12.1949, Kursk) — chemist, biologist.

Polina Kachkp was born into a family of civil servants. She began her career at the Ausma factory in Riga, where she worked as a plastic product assembler from 1965 to 1966. From 1967 to 1976, she was a nurse at the Republican Blood Transfusion Station and Pathological Anatomy Laboratory of the Republican Psychiatric Hospital, and a histologist laboratory assistant at the Riga Pathological Anatomy Centre. In 1975, she graduated from the Chemical and Biological Faculty of the Kursk State Pedagogical Institute. From 1976 to 1978, she worked as a chemist at Olinefarm. From 1978 to 1981, she was a foreman and senior chemical engineer at the Riga Elevator and the Riga Feed Mill. Since 1981, she has been a master technologist in the electroplating department of the Inverter factory, part of the Alfa company.