Antonina Ivanovna Poyarkova

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Antonina Ivanovna Pojarkowa ( Russian Антонина Ивановна Пояркова * February 20 . Jul / 4. March  1897 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 10. October 1980 in Leningrad ) was a Soviet botanist .

Life

Poyarkova attended the Ekaterina girls' high school in Nakhchivan-on-Don with graduation in 1914. In 1915, she began studying in St. Petersburg at the Imperial Pedagogical Institute for Women , founded in 1903 , which became the 1st Petrograd State Pedagogical Institute after the October Revolution . There she completed her studies in the natural sciences and geography faculty in 1922 .

Already in 1920 Pojarkowa had become a research assistant in the department for living plants of the former Imperial Botanical Garden St. Petersburg, which was now the main botanical garden of the RSFSR . At first she worked in the laboratory for experimental ecology with Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Maximow . She carried out numerous expeditions in the Caucasus and set up corresponding herbaria , which are kept in the Komarov - Botany Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR).

1931-1936 Poyarkova also worked in the Leningrad Research Institute of Petroleum Geology , for which she carried out paleobotanical studies of the fossil flora on the Aral Sea , Sakhalin , Amur and Kamchatka . From 1932 to 1939 she occasionally advised the State Academy for Communal Economics in Moscow .

In 1936 Pojarkowa was given a doctorate on the basis of her work on the systematics of the bedecktsamer and the fossil flora of North Asia without defending a dissertation as a candidate for biological sciences. In the 30-volume anthology Flora SSSR of the AN-SSSR (1934-1964) she was one of the leading authors, for which she received the Stalin Prize in the field of science II in 1952 together with Boris Konstantinowitsch Schischkin and Sergei Wassiljewitsch Juseptschuk . In 1955 she received her doctorate in biological sciences without defending a dissertation . She received the Order of Lenin for her successful work .

1969–1973 Poyarkova worked as a consultant in the Laboratory for Systematics and Geography of Higher Plants of the Komarow Botany Institute of the AN-SSSR in Leningrad. In 1980 she completed her article on the nightshade family for the five-volume work on the flora of the European part of the USSR .

Pojarkowa was buried in the Zelenogorsk cemetery next to her siblings Wera (1898–1955) and Sergei (1898–1973).

Plants named after Pojarkowa

  • Pojarkovia Askerova (1984)
  • Andrachne pojarkoviae Kovachev (1965)
  • Cotoneaster pojarkovae Zakirov (1955)
  • Crataegus pojarkoviae Kossych (1964)
  • Fraxinus pojarkoviana VNVassil. (1952)
  • Galium pojarkovae Pobed. (1958)
  • Hyoscyamus pojarkovae Schönb.-Tem. (1972)
  • Kudrjaschevia pojarkovae Ikonn. (1972)
  • Ligularia pojarkovana SWLiu & TNHo (2001)
  • Prunus pojarkovii AEMurray (1969)
  • Salicornia pojarkovae Semenova (1956)
  • Senecio pojarkovae Shishk. (1953)
  • Taraxacum pojarkoviae Shishk. (1964)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bobrov JG : Памяти Антонины Ивановны Поярковой (February 20, 1879– October 10, 1980) . In: Ботанический журнал . tape 67 , no. 7 , 1982, pp. 1006 .
  2. ↑ a b c Зеленогорское Кладбище: Могила ботаника Антонины Ивановны Поярковой (accessed January 9, 2020).
  3. ↑ Collections of AIPojarkova from Caucasus (accessed January 9, 2020).
personal data
SURNAME Poyarkova, Antonina Ivanovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Пояркова, Антонина Ивановна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet botanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1980
Place of death Leningrad