Valentina Platonovna Polukhina (Russian: Валентина Платоновна Полухина; 18 June 1936 – 8 February 2022) was a British-Russian scholar, Emeritus Professor at Keele University, and the widow of Daniel Weissbort.
She was the author and editor of major studies of Joseph Brodsky, as well as publications on poets such as Akhmatova, Pasternak, Tsvetaeva, Khlebnikov and Mandelshtam.
The patrons of the fund were Prince Michael of Kent, the Bishop of Lichfield Keith Sutton, and Seamus Heaney.
Due to Weissbort's illness, the fund was closed in 2012 before being re-established in December 2014 with the help of poet Olga Shvarova.
[citation needed] Polukhina completed The Anthology of Poems Dedicated to Joseph Brodsky, under the title Iz nezabyvshikh menia ("By those who remember me") which include sixteen British and two Irish poets.