I'm historian of sciences, Dr. of Historical Sciences from 2015. Graduated from Russian State University for the Humanities in 1994 with the diploma in archival Affairs. Got my PhD from them in 2000 in historical sources and historiography. For more then two decades I'm working for the S.I. Vavilov's Institute for the History of Science and Technology Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Recently as chief research fellow in the department for the history of physics and mathematics. Published near to 200 papers on the history of science in Russia and several books.
В монографии впервые в отечественной историографии представлены статистические данные о российски... more В монографии впервые в отечественной историографии представлены статистические данные о российских женщинах-любительницах естественных наук, полученные в результате обработки материалов Съездов русских естествоиспытателей и врачей за период с 1867 по 1913 гг. На их основании составлен коллективный портрет участниц съездов. В том числе: представлены данные о количестве российских женщин, посещавших научные съезды; местностях на территории Российской империи, в которых они проживали; об их социальном и профессиональном статусе; о наиболее интересовавших их отраслях знания; о степени их научной и научно-организационной активности; об отношении к их деятельности научного сообщества. Для широкого круга читателей, интересующихся историей отечественной науки.
The book presents a scientific collection dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the birth of an o... more The book presents a scientific collection dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the birth of an outstanding Russian geologist, the first female Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences in the USSR, Vera Aleksandrovna Varsanofieva. The publication covers relatively unknown pages of V.A. Varsanofieva's environmental activity. For many years Vera Aleksandrovna has been tirelessly promoting the need to protect wildlife, presenting reports, lectures, articles. In the 1950s, she played an outstanding role in the restoration of the system of Soviet nature reserves destroyed by the 1951 reform, and in the preservation of the Pechora-Ilych State Reserve. Up to date, her contribution to these processes remains unknown to a great extent. The collection includes previously unpublished and (or) little-known texts by V.A. Varsanofieva devoted to environmental protection and nature reserve creation and management; documents of her organizational activity in this direction; personal lett...
This essay describes the growing number of women in science in Russia from 1860 to 1940, analyzin... more This essay describes the growing number of women in science in Russia from 1860 to 1940, analyzing the development of a significant community in terms of three generations. These generations are defined by the removal of various obstacles to women's participation in the sciences. The decisive transitions took place with the creation of higher education for women in the 1870s and the establishment of formal gender equality by the Bolshevik regime after 1917. To develop a composite picture, many women's careers are examined.
The paper presents forgotten episode from the history of hydrology in Russia. It was a personal p... more The paper presents forgotten episode from the history of hydrology in Russia. It was a personal project undertaken by one of the first Russian women-astronomers Nina Subbotina (1877–1961) who was also competent and very interested in meteorological observation. Being well-known and well-respected in her day and time, Subbotina is nearly forgotten nowadays. When she was challenged with discovering of a reliable method to predict the height of floods of the Volga – one of Russia’s main rivers – she found an interesting solution. She tried comparing the heights of Volga floods with data on the solar activity and finding whether one could influence another. If it was, one would be able to prognose the height of river flood with the knowledge about current states of sunspots.
The article examines the use of women scientists by the Soviet government as a possible tool of p... more The article examines the use of women scientists by the Soviet government as a possible tool of political propaganda in the international arena. The paper explores the international activities of Soviet women scientists aimed at promoting peace and the activities of the USSR in this area among members of foreign women’s organizations and participants of various “peaceful” congresses and conferences, on the one hand, and the activities of the same women scientists during the Second World War to promote the position of the Soviet Union. On the basis of documents of personal origin, as well as memories, the attitude of women scientists to this role is analyzed.
The paper analyzes scientific collaboration of the spouses Vladislav and Maria Molleson. They liv... more The paper analyzes scientific collaboration of the spouses Vladislav and Maria Molleson. They lived in little town Troitskosavsk (today it is Kyakhta, Republic of Buryatia) in the second half of the 19th century. They both had a day job teaching in different local secondary schools but all their spare time was spent researching local nature venturing even into Mongolia for this purpose during summer breaks. As a result, they acquired large collections of natural artifacts: birds, animals, plants, etc. Logically the next step was to write and publish scientific papers which they did. Together with a group of equal-minded teachers they organized a society for natural exploration of the region which soon in 1894 became a part of the Troitskosavsko-Kyakhtinskoye branch of the Priamursky branch of the Russian Geographical Society. One of the first things new Society did was to combine all private collections of its founders into proper museum of natural sciences. Vladislav and Maria Molleson tended for the mentioned museum during nearly two decades together and separately. The paper aims to analyze their activity not as of one person and his helper but as of a united team of equal partners.
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2020
The paper presents data on the biography of an outstanding Russian woman-scientist Olga Fedchenko... more The paper presents data on the biography of an outstanding Russian woman-scientist Olga Fedchenko in honor of her 175-year anniversary. Olga Fedchenko is known internationally for her botanical works especially on flora of Turkestan region. Also, without formal university education, she managed to become a professional highly respected in scientific community, which resulted in her election in 1906 a correspondent member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Her professional career began in Turkestan region where she participated in the famous Turkestan expedition of the Fedchenko couple in 1868–1872 along her husband Alexei Fedchenko. Since then a lot of her research were related to flora of this place. In late 1890s, she made a few trips there again, this time with her son Boris Fedchenko who grown to become a fine botanist himself.
Первая женщина действительный член Латвийской академии наук Лидия Карловна Лепинь своё образовани... more Первая женщина действительный член Латвийской академии наук Лидия Карловна Лепинь своё образование получила на Московских Высших Женских курсах и в межвоенный период работала во многих вузах Москвы. Она является одним из разработчиков первого в России противогаза. В 1934-м стала профессором, а в 1937-м Президиум АН СССР присвоил ей степень доктора химических наук без защиты диссертации. В послевоенный период работала в Латвийском университете и Рижском политехническом институте. В Латвийской Республике за исследования в области коррозии ей присуждена Государственная премия
The article examines the use of women scientists by the Soviet government as a possible tool of p... more The article examines the use of women scientists by the Soviet government as a possible tool of political propaganda in the international arena. The paper explores the international activities of Soviet women scientists aimed at promoting peace and the activities of the USSR in this area among members of foreign women’s organizations and participants of various “peaceful” congresses and conferences, on the one hand, and the activities of the same women scientists during the Second World War to promote the position of the Soviet Union. On the basis of documents of personal origin, as well as memories, the attitude of women scientists to this role is analyzed.
Lidija Liepiņa is the one of the first woman to receive a doctorate in chemistry and the first wo... more Lidija Liepiņa is the one of the first woman to receive a doctorate in chemistry and the first woman to become a true member of Latvian Academy of Science. She received education at the Higher Courses for Women in Moscow in the early 20th century. During the interwar period she worked at different universities in Moscow. Lidija Liepiņa is one of the developers of the first gas mask in Russia. In 1934, she received the title of professor, in 1937 the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences nominated her for the title of Doctor of Chemical Sciences without requiring of her to defend a dissertation. After World War II she worked at the Latvian State University and at Riga Polytechnical Institute. In 1970, she was awarded the State Prize of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic for research in the field of corrosion.
В монографии впервые в отечественной историографии представлены статистические данные о российски... more В монографии впервые в отечественной историографии представлены статистические данные о российских женщинах-любительницах естественных наук, полученные в результате обработки материалов Съездов русских естествоиспытателей и врачей за период с 1867 по 1913 гг. На их основании составлен коллективный портрет участниц съездов. В том числе: представлены данные о количестве российских женщин, посещавших научные съезды; местностях на территории Российской империи, в которых они проживали; об их социальном и профессиональном статусе; о наиболее интересовавших их отраслях знания; о степени их научной и научно-организационной активности; об отношении к их деятельности научного сообщества. Для широкого круга читателей, интересующихся историей отечественной науки.
The book presents a scientific collection dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the birth of an o... more The book presents a scientific collection dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the birth of an outstanding Russian geologist, the first female Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences in the USSR, Vera Aleksandrovna Varsanofieva. The publication covers relatively unknown pages of V.A. Varsanofieva's environmental activity. For many years Vera Aleksandrovna has been tirelessly promoting the need to protect wildlife, presenting reports, lectures, articles. In the 1950s, she played an outstanding role in the restoration of the system of Soviet nature reserves destroyed by the 1951 reform, and in the preservation of the Pechora-Ilych State Reserve. Up to date, her contribution to these processes remains unknown to a great extent. The collection includes previously unpublished and (or) little-known texts by V.A. Varsanofieva devoted to environmental protection and nature reserve creation and management; documents of her organizational activity in this direction; personal lett...
This essay describes the growing number of women in science in Russia from 1860 to 1940, analyzin... more This essay describes the growing number of women in science in Russia from 1860 to 1940, analyzing the development of a significant community in terms of three generations. These generations are defined by the removal of various obstacles to women's participation in the sciences. The decisive transitions took place with the creation of higher education for women in the 1870s and the establishment of formal gender equality by the Bolshevik regime after 1917. To develop a composite picture, many women's careers are examined.
The paper presents forgotten episode from the history of hydrology in Russia. It was a personal p... more The paper presents forgotten episode from the history of hydrology in Russia. It was a personal project undertaken by one of the first Russian women-astronomers Nina Subbotina (1877–1961) who was also competent and very interested in meteorological observation. Being well-known and well-respected in her day and time, Subbotina is nearly forgotten nowadays. When she was challenged with discovering of a reliable method to predict the height of floods of the Volga – one of Russia’s main rivers – she found an interesting solution. She tried comparing the heights of Volga floods with data on the solar activity and finding whether one could influence another. If it was, one would be able to prognose the height of river flood with the knowledge about current states of sunspots.
The article examines the use of women scientists by the Soviet government as a possible tool of p... more The article examines the use of women scientists by the Soviet government as a possible tool of political propaganda in the international arena. The paper explores the international activities of Soviet women scientists aimed at promoting peace and the activities of the USSR in this area among members of foreign women’s organizations and participants of various “peaceful” congresses and conferences, on the one hand, and the activities of the same women scientists during the Second World War to promote the position of the Soviet Union. On the basis of documents of personal origin, as well as memories, the attitude of women scientists to this role is analyzed.
The paper analyzes scientific collaboration of the spouses Vladislav and Maria Molleson. They liv... more The paper analyzes scientific collaboration of the spouses Vladislav and Maria Molleson. They lived in little town Troitskosavsk (today it is Kyakhta, Republic of Buryatia) in the second half of the 19th century. They both had a day job teaching in different local secondary schools but all their spare time was spent researching local nature venturing even into Mongolia for this purpose during summer breaks. As a result, they acquired large collections of natural artifacts: birds, animals, plants, etc. Logically the next step was to write and publish scientific papers which they did. Together with a group of equal-minded teachers they organized a society for natural exploration of the region which soon in 1894 became a part of the Troitskosavsko-Kyakhtinskoye branch of the Priamursky branch of the Russian Geographical Society. One of the first things new Society did was to combine all private collections of its founders into proper museum of natural sciences. Vladislav and Maria Molleson tended for the mentioned museum during nearly two decades together and separately. The paper aims to analyze their activity not as of one person and his helper but as of a united team of equal partners.
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2020
The paper presents data on the biography of an outstanding Russian woman-scientist Olga Fedchenko... more The paper presents data on the biography of an outstanding Russian woman-scientist Olga Fedchenko in honor of her 175-year anniversary. Olga Fedchenko is known internationally for her botanical works especially on flora of Turkestan region. Also, without formal university education, she managed to become a professional highly respected in scientific community, which resulted in her election in 1906 a correspondent member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Her professional career began in Turkestan region where she participated in the famous Turkestan expedition of the Fedchenko couple in 1868–1872 along her husband Alexei Fedchenko. Since then a lot of her research were related to flora of this place. In late 1890s, she made a few trips there again, this time with her son Boris Fedchenko who grown to become a fine botanist himself.
Первая женщина действительный член Латвийской академии наук Лидия Карловна Лепинь своё образовани... more Первая женщина действительный член Латвийской академии наук Лидия Карловна Лепинь своё образование получила на Московских Высших Женских курсах и в межвоенный период работала во многих вузах Москвы. Она является одним из разработчиков первого в России противогаза. В 1934-м стала профессором, а в 1937-м Президиум АН СССР присвоил ей степень доктора химических наук без защиты диссертации. В послевоенный период работала в Латвийском университете и Рижском политехническом институте. В Латвийской Республике за исследования в области коррозии ей присуждена Государственная премия
The article examines the use of women scientists by the Soviet government as a possible tool of p... more The article examines the use of women scientists by the Soviet government as a possible tool of political propaganda in the international arena. The paper explores the international activities of Soviet women scientists aimed at promoting peace and the activities of the USSR in this area among members of foreign women’s organizations and participants of various “peaceful” congresses and conferences, on the one hand, and the activities of the same women scientists during the Second World War to promote the position of the Soviet Union. On the basis of documents of personal origin, as well as memories, the attitude of women scientists to this role is analyzed.
Lidija Liepiņa is the one of the first woman to receive a doctorate in chemistry and the first wo... more Lidija Liepiņa is the one of the first woman to receive a doctorate in chemistry and the first woman to become a true member of Latvian Academy of Science. She received education at the Higher Courses for Women in Moscow in the early 20th century. During the interwar period she worked at different universities in Moscow. Lidija Liepiņa is one of the developers of the first gas mask in Russia. In 1934, she received the title of professor, in 1937 the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences nominated her for the title of Doctor of Chemical Sciences without requiring of her to defend a dissertation. After World War II she worked at the Latvian State University and at Riga Polytechnical Institute. In 1970, she was awarded the State Prize of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic for research in the field of corrosion.
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