Roza Stepanovna Chumakova (Russian: Роза Степановна Чумакова, 8 June 1924 – 10 October 2007)[1] was Russian rower who won two European titles in the single sculls in 1954 and 1955.

[2] Chumakova graduated from secondary school shortly before the start of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II.

The same year she volunteered to work as a nurse at a military hospital and then as a radio operator at the Soviet Air Force.

In 1969 she defended her PhD on physical training of elite rowers[3] and later worked as professor of physical education at the Moscow State Technical University of Civil Aviation.

Between 1985 and 2000 she was president of the Moscow Federation of Masters Rowing.