Dariya Nikitichna Dobroczajeva

Dariya Nikitichna Dobroczajeva (Ukrainian: Дарія Микитівна Доброчаєва; March 30, 1916, Khyshnyky, Ukraine – December 1, 1995, Kiev, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian botanist and university teacher. She was the head of the Botanical Museum of the Botanical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She brought back numerous herbarium materials from expeditions in Ukraine and private trips to various countries, donating more than 30,000 herbarium sheets to the Institute of Botany. For a long time, she headed the herbarium exchange fund, significantly expanded her connections to botanical institutions in many countries of Europe, Asia and America, and intensified her work to replenish the world flora collection. The standard author abbreviation Dobrocz. is used to identify that person as the author when citing a botanical name.

Awards and honours=

• 1969: State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR for Science and Technology
• 1982: Honored Worker in Science and Technology of the Ukrainian SSR
• The Dobrochaeva Botanical Museum is named after her and is one of the five exhibitions of the National Museum of Science and Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, housed in the National Museum of Natural History.