Ljubinka Malenkova was born in 1927 in Ohrid. She completed her architectural education at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Belgrade, where she graduated in 1951, in the class of prof. Bogdan Nestorovikj. After graduating, she was employed in the General Directorate of Communal Affairs at the Ministry of Construction, from where in 1952 she moved to the design company "Proektant". In 1961 she was employed in "Pelagonija" construction company, where she worked until her retirement in 1987. Ljubinka Malenkova was occasionally hired as a part-time associate at the Faculty of Architecture in Skopje, in the subject Design of Residential Buildings. She was a member of the Council for Urbanism of the City of Skopje and the Republic Council for Urbanism and Physical Planning for many years.
Architect Ljubinka Malenkova has a wide range of works and numerous projects and realizations. She is the author of the following significant buildings: Theater of Nationalities (today Albanian Theater, with arch. Vera Kjosevska) in Skopje; Physical Education High School with a gym in Skopje; Residential block (G+5) on "Mito Hadzivasilev-Jasmin" St. in Skopje; Residential towers (G+11) in the Karposh 4 settlement in Skopje; Apartment blocks from "City Wall" (within a wider team, with architects: Vera Kjosevska, Aleksandar Serafimovski, Slavko Djuric, Nikola Bogachev and Simo Simovski) in Skopje; Business complex "Moskva" (with architect Vera Kjosevska) in Skopje; Pedagogical Academy (with arch. Vera Kjosevska) in Shtip; Post offices in Tetovo, Kumanovo, Prilep, Strumica, Kochani, etc. Architect Ljubinka Malenkova also worked on the following urban plans: Urban Plan for Resen (with arch. Ljube Pota); Urban plan for Kichevo (with architect Ludjek Kubesh) and Urban solution for the center of Kochani.
For her contribution to the Macedonian architecture, architect Ljubinka Malenkova was awarded the Order of Labor with a silver and gold wreath in 1980, and she received the Lifetime Achievement Award "Andreja Damjanov" by the Association of Architects of Macedonia in 2000.
