Ekaterina Vladimirovna Lermontova

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Ekaterina Vladimirovna Lermontova

Ekaterina Vladimirovna Lermontowa ( Russian Екатерина Владимировна Лермонтова * January 30 . Jul / 11. February  1889 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 9. January 1942 in Leningrad ) was a Russian - Soviet geologist and paleontologist .

Life

Lermontowa was the fourth child of the noble physicist Vladimir Vladimirovich Lermontov , related to the poet Mikhail Jurjewitsch Lermontov . She attended the Kolomenskaya Girls' High School in St. Petersburg, which she graduated with a silver medal. ! In 905 she began her studies in St. Petersburg at the new Pedagogical Institute for Women in the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, specializing in natural sciences and geography . After graduating, she taught at the grammar school. In 1912 she passed the exams at the University of St. Petersburg and received the first class diploma.

At the invitation of the zoologist Valentin Alexandrowitsch Dogel , Lermontova worked in the laboratory for invertebrate zoology at the University of St. Petersburg. In 1913, she conducted scientific research at the Murmansk Biological Station . In 1915 she gave up work in the university laboratory to accompany her sick sister Nadezhda to Bakhchysarai and then to Samarqand . In 1916 she returned to Petrograd and taught at a school. After the October Revolution , she also taught at the RabFak of the Petrograd University .

In 1921 Lermontowa became a member of the Geological Committee. Under the direction of Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Jakowlews she studied the trilobites of the Cambrian . She investigated the trilobite fauna of Siberia , the Kuznetsk Alatau , the Eastern Sayan , the Southern Urals , Kazakhstan and the Southern Afghanistan Valley . The result of their work was the first stratigraphic table of the sediments of the Cambrian of Eastern Siberia .

After the dissolution of the Geological Committee in 1930, Lermontova worked in the Central Research Institute for Geological Exploration (ZNIGRI) founded in 1931 , which in 1939 became the All-Russian Geological Research Institute (WSEGEI). From 1940 she prepared the publication of the first volume of her monograph on the trilobites of the Cambrian. When the geological research institute was evacuated after the beginning of the German-Soviet war and the Leningrad blockade , Lermontova refused to go with her to stay with her mother, who was unable to travel. The institute management then decided to dismiss her. Lermontova died on January 9, 1942 in the blocked Leningrad and was buried in a mass grave.

Lermontowa's name has fossil animal species and algae as well as biostratigraphic units.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Груздева Е. Н .: Екатерина Владимировна Лермонтова. К 120-летию со дня рождения . In: Вестник Герценовского университета . tape 64 , no. 2 , 2009, p. 68–72 ( [1] [PDF; accessed March 21, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b c Ogilvie MB , Harvey JD : The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: LZ . Taylor & Francis , 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-92040-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Lermontova, Ekaterina Vladimirovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лермонтова, Екатерина Владимировна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1942
Place of death Leningrad